Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Dean Acheson

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Dee Hock

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

Carolyn Porco

Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.

Carlos Castaneda

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Charlotte Lamb

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

Charles Lamb

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.

Charles Baudelaire

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Spurgeon

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

Charles Spurgeon

Mind your till, and till your mind.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.

Alan Watts

By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

Alan Watts

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

Ezra Pound

There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.

George Stigler

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

Herman Melville

Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come.

Rosalind Wiseman

I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable.

Henry Rollins

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Laurence J. Peter

Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

John Jay Hooker

If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject.