Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Andrew Young

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Andrei Sakharov

Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.

Christopher Reeve

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

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.

Clarence Darrow

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

Daniel Defoe

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

David Livingstone

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

Coretta Scott King

All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.

Confucius

To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is real wisdom.

Confucius

To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

Confucius

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Confucius

To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.

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.

Ambrose Bierce

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.