Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Cowper

Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

Evan Richert

I think it does not unduly harm property owners' rights. Theo and the town were very attentive to striking a balance. And I think they threaded the needle.

Robert Massey

He's a big name, not only for publicity but for recruiting. And he's a hell of a coach. He has a good football mind. Knowing that he's a former pro athlete, the kids will be very attentive and will work hard for him.

Pope Benedict

We too are called to be attentive to the needs of our suffering brothers and sisters as part of our Lenten observance.

Trevor Hoffman

He takes great pride in it. He's always attentive to the game situation, knows when we're going to probably crank 'er up a little bit more than normal based on the situation. There's no dialogue; he's there before I ever get there. Kind of like you see guys in the Home Run Derby. They bring in their own batting practice pitcher. There's a select comfort you get from somebody.

George Casey

And it's obviously something that one has to be attentive to. It's obviously something that General Casey and his troops are attentive to and have to be concerned about,

Alan W. Livingston

I've always been very attentive to detail. It's a characteristic that drives some people crazy. But on the other hand, when people around me are sloppy, that drives me crazy.

E. Hurley

It's an early indicator that new technologies and new routes to market for standards-based technology can begin to crimp at the edges of brand-name vendors, ... If vendors aren't attentive to these things and don't have a mature story to tell their customers about open source in general, this could be very problematic for them.

Christine Johnson

Excellent leg room, very attentive staff, fairly decent food, and I had my own DVD player.

Atharva Veda

The One Lord and Master dwells in the home; He is seen in the wilderness as well. I have become fearless; the Saint has removed my doubts.

If God dwells inside us like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that's what He's getting

Paul Franklin

Keep your heads up, boys. This is your job. Don't let these (suicide bombers) intimidate you. We're here for the right reasons.

Paul Pierce

We've got to keep our heads up. We're going to turn this around sooner or later.

Charles Stross

I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.

William Cowper

Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.

Rashad Mitchell

It helped a ton. We never put our heads down and thought because we were down that we were going to lose. We just kept pushing and pushing.

Michael Lehmann

I really like getting inside the heads of female characters. I think I can do that well, and I enjoy it.

Jill Soloway

I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It's ten people, and you're together every day laughing your heads off.

Charles Richardson

Their heads were down when we were making big shots and big plays. We had them on their heels and we didn't let up.

Frankie Hejduk

The thing is that we didn't put our heads down and die. We kept on battling. They didn't get the goals. If we didn't keep fighting, then someone knocks it in off the post. That shows some promise. The play will come with time.

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.

William Whewell

According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

Samuel Smiles

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Richard Francis Burton

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

Samuel Johnson

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

Werner Erhard

All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains: "What We Know", "What We Know That We Don't Know", and "What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."

Samuel Beckett

Enough to know no knowing.

Mario Chalmers

I think that's good. A lot of people on the team now really didn't play on that team, so it's not on our minds right now. We're not even thinking about that game.

Curt Schilling

I don't go out there with the mindset that he did this, now I'm going to better him. This game's too hard.

Steve Tuen

The mindset has shifted from one of wild optimism to that of conservatism. The party is over and people are starting to sober up.

James Gottfurcht

These people have some sense in their minds of the steps they're going to take in life. Somewhere, they're programming.

John Mendoza

It's probably in many peoples' minds well overdue.

Erik Qualman

Everybody's got the mindset that everything should be measurable.

Hans Rosling

Let the dataset change your mindset

Sandy Miller

As we get older our minds become more fuddled. (Having so many plans) doesn't help.

Bill Ryan

It seems like we had a mindset of ?we're the underdog, let's go for broke.' We shot without apprehension.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Mike McLaughlin

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

Source Unknown

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Thomas Watson

THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Grant Wistrom

We all have a lot of thoughts about it. We'll keep it to ourselves. We'll wait until we play Phoenix.

T. Harv Eker

No thought lives in your head rent-free.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

Ken Sawyer

My first thoughts were we need a new arena.

Euripides

He is wise that is wise to himself.

Richard Baxter

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Woody Allen

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Woody Allen

Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

William Wordsworth

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

William Wordsworth

Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

Will Durant

Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.