Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Arthur Koestler

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

Ayn Rand

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Carl Sandburg

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

C. S. Lewis

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

Charles Kettering

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Anthony Trollope

There's nothing like going on with a thing.

Dean Koontz

What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.

Boethius

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

Charles Spurgeon

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

Demosthenes

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

Edward Young

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Edmund Burke

The grand instructor, time.

Edmund Burke

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

Edmund Burke

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

Elbert Hubbard

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Deepak Chopra

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Pankaj Mishra

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.

Orson Scott Card

The only way to learn is by changing your mind.

Orson Scott Card

If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

The result showed the wisdom of your orders.

Daniel Quinn

You never actually know how you're going to handle a problem until you actually have it.

Clive James

As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks

Clive James

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

Clive James

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

e. e. cummings

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

e. e. cummings

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality... If poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it's you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else... There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth.

Adolf Hitler

One should guard against believing the great masses to be more stupid than they actually are.