Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them-none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way.

David Mitchell

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.

Carl Sagan

There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity

Bryce Dallas Howard

The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it - but they're also these philosophical cautionary tales. They deal with the underlying themes beneath the what-if.

Camille Paglia

Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.

William Shakespeare

A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.

David Hume

Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?

David Hume

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

David Hume

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

Alan Shearer

There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.

Charlotte Bronte

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Claire Messud

We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

Amy Poehler

Forgiveness is something that's always possibility.

Ann Brashares

When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.

Albert Einstein

There is possibility in every difficulty.

Anne Rice

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

Dag Hammarskjold

This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.

Cornel West

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

Charles Lindbergh

Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.

Chad Kroeger

There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.

Augusten Burroughs

I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.

Albert Einstein

A mathematical equation stands forever

Anish Kapoor

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form

Daniel Bernoulli

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

Bertrand Russell

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

William Shakespeare

I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.

Isaac Asimov

Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.