Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irish Sayings

When the fruit is scarcest its taste is sweetest

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Thomas Haden Church

I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.

Vernor Vinge

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

Rumi

Stop learning. Start knowing

Tony Gilroy

I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.

Stephen Collins

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

Socrates

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I reach to the edge of the universe, I do so knowing that along some paths of cosmic discovery, there are times when, at least for now, one must be content to love the questions themselves.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Charles Caleb Colton

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

T. S. Eliot

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.

Thomas Merton

We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.

Thomas Merton

The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.

Sri Aurobindo

When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

Sri Chinmoy

Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot.

Sam Ewing

Don't drive as if you own the road; drive as if you own the car.

Sam Ewing

Two things help to keep one's job. First, let the boss think he's having his own way. Second, let him have it.

Sam Ewing

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

Stephen Breyer

The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.

Stephen Colbert

If someone does offer you a job, say 'yes.' You can always quit later. Then at least you'll be one of the unemployed as opposed to one of the never-employed. Nothing looks worse on a resume than nothing.