Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Chekhov

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

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.

Plato

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

John Ruskin

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

John Ruskin

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

Mark Twain

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Michel Foucault

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

Louis L'Amour

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Mark Twain

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

Dustin Pedroia

I just try to see the ball and hit it. If I get a hit, I get a hit. If I get out, I get out. There's no secret about it.

Doug Liman

It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.

David Foster Wallace

There are secrets within secrets, though--always.

T. Harv Eker

Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.

Rajneesh

This is the secret, THE secret ... De-automatize.

Stephen Fry

One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you.

Patricia Briggs

Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.

Lance Morrow

The Clinton's secret is that they live in a morally discontinuous universe-events do not have consequences, and what happened 15 minutes ago has no connection to what happens now. Beware of power when it masters the secret of popular amnesia.

Lisa Unger

The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.

Louis Graham

Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way.

Augusten Burroughs

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

Ben Folds

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Ben Jonson

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

Brian Cresta

And we see 50 to 80 percent walk out with a peace of mind with the drug benefit.

Charles Cooper

Are you sure in your mind you didn't do it?

Osama Laden

We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you.

Alan Hovhaness

No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.