Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

Man can be scientifically manipulated.

Bertrand Russell

In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.

Bertrand Russell

Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.

Bertrand Russell

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

Bertrand Russell

In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils. There is no hope for the world unless power can be tamed, and brought into the service, not of this or that group of fanatical tyrants, but of the whole human race, white and yellow and black, fascist and communist and democrat; for science has made it inevitable that all must live or all must die.

Bertrand Russell

A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.

Bertrand Russell

The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed

Bertrand Russell

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.

Bertrand Russell

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

Bertrand Russell

He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great as the world. In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.

That was the nerves of his first major-league start. Everything speeded up on him. The next time, he realized, 'That's not me. That's not who I am.' It was a whole different mentality from the minute he got to the ballpark. He warmed up better, he was focused, he was concentrated.

Peter Clarke

We need to know where he went when he got off the bus. Until these men are arrested, they remain a threat.

Mariano Rivera

We can't just go there and play around. We have to go there with the mentality that we have to win.

John Brady

We just didn't think he was mentally as sharp as we needed him to be.

Travis Zajac

We played playoff hockey. We played like men out there and we played like a team.

Patricia McBride

Most ballets are more interesting than most men.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Patti Stanger

Oprah didn't want to put me on the show for a really long time because she thought I was more for the men than for the women.

To know men is to be wise; to know oneself is to be illumined

We wanted to make sure mentally we were ready and weren't still thinking about the Phoenix sun.

Robert Kiyosaki

Your Mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely

Petrarch

Whyle I was abowte to chaunge myn olde lyff-- What sorowe I suffred, dyseese, angre and stryff, Cracchynge myn here, my chekys all totare, Wrythynge my fyngres for angwysshe and care, Watrynge the erthe with my byttre salte teres That the crye of my syghes ascended to Goddys eres, My knees with myn handys grasped togedyre soore, And yitt I stode the same man I was afore Tyl a depe profounde remembraunce att the laste Hadd all my wrecchednesse afore myn eyn caste

Petrarch

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

Petrarch

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

Petrarch

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

Petrarch

Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

Petrarch

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

Olli Jokinen

We have to mentally ready to play every night, and tonight we weren't.

William Shakespeare

Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever

William Shakespeare

For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

William Shakespeare

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

William Shakespeare

Happy are those who hear their detractions and can put them to mending.

William Shakespeare

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)