Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Adamov

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Daniel Dennett

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

Confucius

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

Tom Peters

If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.

Stephen Covey

The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'

Stephen Hawking

We won't know for a few years.

Stephen Hawking

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.

Sigmund Freud

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

John Sullivan

You smile with just the mere mention of his name.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Barbara Jordan

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Baruch Spinoza

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Augustus Hare

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

Augustus Hare

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

C. S. Lewis

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

Charles Bukowski

there's no defense except all the errors made

Stand Watie

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

Rollo May

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

Troy Schaefer

We made a lot of errors and when you make a lot of errors you aren't going to win a lot of games. If you take away the errors the game probably would have been much closer.

Terri Holmes

Now our errors are not killing us. Our mentality is improving too. It was a good weekend for us.

Felix Frankfurter

It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.

Farley Mowat

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

Ezra Pound

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.