Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonio Machado

There is no way; we make the road by walking it.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

Edward Young

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Edward Young

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

Edmund Burke

The wisdom of our ancestors.

Edmund Burke

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made it.

Edmund Burke

The grand instructor, time.

Edmund Burke

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

Edmund Burke

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

Edmund Burke

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

Edmund Burke

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Edmund Burke

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Edmund Burke

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Edmund Burke

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Deepak Chopra

For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space.

Edward Gibbon

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Edward Gibbon

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

Edmund Waller

With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

Edgar Lee Masters

The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom.

Edgar Lee Masters

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

Edgar Guest

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

Benjamin Franklin

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Benjamin Franklin

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

Arthur Koestler

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

Ayn Rand

To achieve, you need thought

Ayn Rand

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

Ayn Rand

I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important ...

Ayn Rand

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Audra McDonald

...I tried to kill myself. It was a feeble attempt, but I did. And I got put in a mental hospital for a month, and I got myself straight and worked on my mental health...it's nothing that I hide. It's nothing to be proud of or to be ashamed of. It's part of my life, you know? And I'm still here!

Bertrand Russell

When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.