Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

Becca Fitzpatrick

My legs are falling asleep,” I blurted. It wasn’t a total lie. I was experiencing tingling sensations all through my body, legs included. “I could solve that.” Patch’s hands closed on my hips.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Wow. Nice bike,” I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.

B. H. Liddell Hart

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.

B. B. King

Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.

B. F. Skinner

I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.

C. S. Lewis

We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.

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?

Dan Millman

Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied that we have only to look, listen, and trust the love and wisdom of the Universal Spirit working through us all.

Abraham Lincoln

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

David Hume

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

Greg Kutz

Orders were one of the key causes of the disputes and the problems.

John Olver

Our gasoline prices are hovering at $3 a gallon, and that causes a serious problem for a lot of our commerce and a lot of our families.

Sarah McCabe

Risk of not eating properly causes obesity and heart attacks. It can give you all kinds of health problems. Everyone needs to exercise and eat nutritional food.

Mark Hyman

Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.

Edwards Deming

Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.

Carl Sagan

Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.

Ashley Tisdale

It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking... surreal.

Stephen Flynn

It isn't the event but the sudden lack of faith in the system that it causes.

Gordon Brown

I welcome the Gates Foundation's announcement today. For far too long, world leaders have ignored the global tuberculosis epidemic, even as it causes millions of needless deaths each year.