Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think there?s a lot of wisdom in that kind of modification. That was something we never thought about before. But now it?s a big deal.

Alice Walker

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

Alice Walker

You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

Anne Lamott

I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

Albert Camus

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

Amelia Earhart

Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning.

D. H. Lawrence

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

D. H. Lawrence

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

D. H. Lawrence

The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.

Alexander Pope

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Alexander Pope

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Alexander Pope

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alex Haley

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

Albert Schweitzer

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.

Douglas MacArthur

He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his effort to achieve increasing production. Representing over a half of Japan's total population, the agriculture workers have become an invincible barrier against the advance of socialistic ideas which would relegate all to the indignity of state servitude.

Doug Larson

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Dora Russell

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

Dora Russell

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

Colleen McCullough

Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.

Dalai Lama

My enemy is my greatest teacher.

Dalai Lama

Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.

Dalai Lama

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

Dalai Lama

If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.

Dick Gregory

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

Desmond Tutu

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

Andy Stanley

God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.

Andre Gide

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

Anatole France

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

Anatole France

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Anais Nin

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.