Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

Chris Ullman

We are Uzhbi, a consortium of pygmy philosophers.

Allan Bloom

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

Alfred Korzybski

It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

Sun Ra

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

Ray Bradbury

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

Matthew Arnold

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

Plato

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

Nick Harkaway

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.

C. S. Lewis

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

William Shakespeare

You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.

William Shakespeare

Thus did I keep my person fresh and new, My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state, Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.

William Shakespeare

By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

Bryce Courtenay

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

Catherynne M. Valente

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.

Nancy Netzer

It's a nice time for students to meet up with faculty and staff in a serious but social way.

Barbara Thompson

It will help in lifting morale on campus. I don't think any university can stay competitive without raises or recognizing faculty excellence.

Derek Hall

(As) part of that proposal, they look at the faculty we would need, the student need, the industry need, what jobs are there, how supportive the industry is. They look at labs, at space.

Todd Radford

Our faculty is more into it than the students.

Robert McGrath

Often the notes a professor uses in her research one year become her lecture notes the next, ... Each one of our faculty members is working hard to do truly innovative science.

Andrew Sorensen

A number of our faculty have offered their homes for faculty from the Gulf Coast.

Brian Gallagher

The support staff and faculty made it very successful.

Leslie Jensen

Right now we're trying to work with faculty and professors about what to do with our classes.

John Wiley

I've been on the faculty for 30 years and in administration for 20 of those, and I don't remember a time when it was worse than it is now.