Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlton Heston

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Bob Woodward

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

Jane Addams

The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.

Janis Joplin

If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

Jane Wyman

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

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.

C. S. Lewis

You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

C. S. Lewis

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Miley Cyrus

I don't ever want to have to need someone again - where you feel like, without them, you can't be yourself.

Calvin Coolidge

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Alain de Botton

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

Charles R. Swindoll

Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.

Charles R. Swindoll

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

Charles Kettering

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

Blaise Pascal

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Blaise Pascal

We know the truth, not only be the reason, but also be the heart.

Eckhart Tolle

Where ever you are, be there totally.

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Bayard Taylor

The stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

Bayard Taylor

The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom." When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

Bayard Taylor

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job right, when I walk out on stage I've got to feel like it's the most important thing in the world. Also I've got to feel like, well, it's only rock and roll. Somehow you've got to believe both of those things.

Brian Tracy

Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay.

Brian Tracy

You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in in harmony with your dominant thoughts.

Brad Pitt

There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

Juvenal

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

Juvenal

Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]