Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

Charles Caleb Colton

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

Charles Caleb Colton

A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.

Charles Dickens

I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.

Charles Dickens

"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."

Charles Dickens

Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

Charles Caleb Colton

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.

Bruno Schulz

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

Bill Johnson

Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.

David Hilbert

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

Diablo Cody

Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level.

Charlie Chaplin

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.

Beth Moore

Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.

Bill Vaughan

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Baltasar Gracian

Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief.

Alan Jay Lerner

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

Byron Katie

A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.

Dean Acheson

Brains are no substitute for judgement.

Charlotte Bronte

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

Baltasar Gracian

Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.

Brian Jacques

A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement gets clouded. —Abbot Saxtus

Ayn Rand

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

Alberto Gonzales

In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.