Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yogi Berra

If you don't know where you're going, when you get there you'll be lost.

Yogi Berra

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

Winston Churchill

Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.

Winston Churchill

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

Winston Churchill

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Winston Churchill

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

Woody Allen

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Woody Allen

Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

William Wordsworth

Wisdom married to immortal verse.

William Wordsworth

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

William Wordsworth

Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

William Wordsworth

Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

William J. Clinton

That all depends on what "is" is.

William James

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

William James

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

William Gilmore Simms

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

William Gibson

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Will Durant

Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.

Samuel Smiles

The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.

Samuel Butler

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life.

William Cowper

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

William Cowper

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

William Cowper

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Wayne Dyer

Trusting yourself is trusting the wisdom that created you.

Wayne Dyer

Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom

Upton Sinclair

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Walt Whitman

Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Roger Ebert

What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.

Roger Ebert

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

Roger Ebert

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

Rod Taylor

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

Robert Lowell

What can the dove of Jesus give You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live, The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.

Robert M. Hutchins

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.