Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Samuel Johnson

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Robert Southey

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

Robert Penn Warren

The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.

Robert M. Pirsig

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Robert M. Pirsig

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Rod Stewart

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Renny Harlin

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Sara Blakely

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

Vladimir Putin

The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.

Winona Ryder

I, myself, am strange and unusual

Steve Zahn

Film is a strange thing.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Everyone is equal - a strange Swedish mentality.

Jim Steiner

I really don't know. It's just one of those strange occurrences.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society

Jackie Borsanyi

Jacquie likes to take natural fibers and have them form a very contained universe. She uses a lot of materials that seem wild and unruly and she asks them to cooperate.

Tom Foley

Joe is a guy who is extremely prepared and extremely positive. He's a guy about relationships and about the team. If a player comes and asks him to sit down and have a few pops, he'll say, 'Let's do it.' He's a teacher who is prepared when he teaches and wants us to be prepared and get it right.

Nick Hornby

Have you got any soul?"" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.

Roger Ebert

If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.

Winston Churchill

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

Kelly Herndon

If you knew him and knew what kind of guy he is and how he treats his players, you have to go to war for somebody like that. All he asks for is for you to give 110 percent on that field and for you to know what you're doing. If you can't do that, then we've got a problem.

Brent Ibata

In the survey the School Board asks multiple questions, clumsily disguised as serious attempts to gain parents' views for future decisions. The survey contains nothing more than a threat of dire outcomes designed to scare and infuriate parents into supporting $45 million in wasteful spending.

Antonio Davis

I just think what these guys are doing is their best and what the coach asks them to do. I came into a situation where guys are willing to do anything it takes to succeed.