Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rene Descartes

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Georges Duhamel

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.

George Bernard Shaw

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

George Bernard Shaw

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Gertrude Jekyll

A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.

Harold MacMillan

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Baruch Spinoza

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.

Steve Nash

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

Henri Bergson

The motive power of democracy is love

Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident

Jean-Paul Sartre

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

Albert Einstein

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

Benjamin Graham

In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced, then duck into the bunker of bonds and cash until stocks again become cheap enough to buy.

Benjamin Graham

The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong.

Peter Lynch

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

Peter Lynch

If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.

Peter Lynch

Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.

Rachel Carson

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

R. A. Salvatore

To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation.