Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts.

Baruch Spinoza

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

Augustine Birrell

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

Ayelet Waldman

Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage.

Ayn Rand

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.

Ayn Rand

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Ayn Rand

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Ayn Rand

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

Bertrand Russell

All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man's Land, exposed to attack by both sides; this No Man's Land is philosophy.

Auguste Comte

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

Arthur Koestler

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Bertrand Russell

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Octavia E. Butler

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

Calvin Coolidge

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Charles Kettering

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

Charles Darwin

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

Charles Darwin

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

John Gregory

a sense of well-being so profound that I did not want to go to sleep.

Marilynne Robinson

Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at all.

Mariska Hargitay

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

Nicole Krauss

Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.

Montgomery Clift

James Dean’s death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don’t know why,

Michel de Montaigne

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Gary Zukav

Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect In this most profound way, we are held responsible for every action, thought, and feeling, which is to say, for our every intention.

Hilary Swank

I feel like I've had a really great intense relationship with every single Director I've ever worked with. I can't say there's one that hasn't been deep and profound in its own way.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.