Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Socrates

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.

Fernando Pessoa

There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

Grant Morrison

I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.

Fred Melamed

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.

Fred Rogers

It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.

Frank Herbert

Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.

Greg Norman

Our success is a direct result of knowing how to market a brand and having the right people representing the brand.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom is the health of the soul.

Victor Hugo

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

Victor Hugo

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

Victor Hugo

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

Victor Hugo

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

Victor Hugo

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

Victor Hugo

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

Victor Hugo

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.