Famous Quotes & Sayings

He did not say many words. He was very happy.

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Eric Byrnes

It's not even close. I can't get that many words in that quickly.

Rick DiPietro

It's frustrating as a goalie. I can't even put it to words right now.

Jules Verne

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

Scott Lynch

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.

Marcus Aurelius

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

Pythagoras

Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.

Paramahansa Yogananda

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

It's not like us and I really don't know what happened. I have no words for it.

It's a nonevent. If you have to write 1,000 words on this, I feel for you.

It was surprisingly touching. It's more real than words on a page.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Carlos Castaneda

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

The words 'defense contractor' kind of worries me.

Lord Kelvin

The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.

Aristotle

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

Aristotle

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Aristotle

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Aristotle

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

Aristotle

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

Aristotle

It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

Abraham Lincoln

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

Andrew Motion

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

Stanley Crouch

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

Stanley Crouch

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

Michael Faraday

When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as fully, clearly, and definitely as in mathematical formulae? If so, would it not be a great boon to such as well to express them so -- translating them out of their hieroglyphics that we might also work upon them by experiment?

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?