Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

Victor Hugo

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

Victor Hugo

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Victor Hugo

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Victor Hugo

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Victor Hugo

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

Victor Hugo

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

Victor Hugo

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Victor Hugo

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Victor Hugo

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

Victor Hugo

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Victor Hugo

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Richard Bach

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

Robert Frost

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

Robert Fulghum

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

Robert Fulghum

Even if your watch is full of diamonds the hour is still 60 minutes

Robert Frost

The only way round is through.

Richard E. Byrd

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.

Rene Descartes

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

Rene Descartes

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Thomas Paine

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Thomas Paine

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer...

Thomas Paine

We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.

Thomas Hood

A moment's thinking is an hour in words.

Thomas Huxley

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

Thomas S. Monson

Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right.

Sam Ewing

Don't drive as if you own the road; drive as if you own the car.

Sam Ewing

Two things help to keep one's job. First, let the boss think he's having his own way. Second, let him have it.

Sam Ewing

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

Sam Levenson

It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring.

Saadi

A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

Saadi

Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.

Saadi

If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.