Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

Confucius

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Daniel Webster

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

David Jeremiah

Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

David Jeremiah

When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.

Paul Simon

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Robert Burns

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

Ram Dass

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

Mahatma Gandhi

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Kurt Vonnegut

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

Mike Rowe

The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

Muhammad Iqbal

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

Muhammad Ali

This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.

Muhammad Ali

My health is in the hands of Allah, who has ways of testing us. Whatever happens, happens. I a'int the greatest - it's Allah. I gave myself a job. I work for God.

Muhammad Ali

Most people don't pray until they're in trouble. When people need help they pray a lot. But after they get what they want, they slow down. If a man takes five showers a day, his body will be clean. Praying five times a day helps me clean my mind.

Muhammad Ali

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Truth is found neither in Marxism nor in traditional capitalism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically capitalism failed to see the truth in collective enterprise, and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise. Nineteenth century capitalism failed to see that life is social and Marxism failed and still fails to see that life is individual and personal. The Kingdom of God is neither the thesis of individual enterprise nor the antithesis of collective enterprise, but a synthesis which reconciles the truths of both.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters...

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Marguerite Yourcenar

I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

Isaiah Berlin

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Hypatia

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

Harry S Truman

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Harry S Truman

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

J. K. Rowling

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.