Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Charles Caleb Colton

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery is not profoundness.

Charles Caleb Colton

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

Charles Caleb Colton

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

Charles Caleb Colton

Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.

Charles Caleb Colton

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

Charles Caleb Colton

What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

Charles Simmons

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Alan Moore

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

Byron Katie

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

Caspar David Friedrich

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

Peter Andersen

The perception is that they take too long and are too expensive.

Bob Hall

The perception is that politics is for sale and politicians are for sale.

Michael Boyd

The perception is it's environmentalist versus environmentalist, ... But it's environmentalists versus the power cartel.

Richard Fleming

The perception in the marketplace has a tremendous impact.

Louis C. K.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

David Icke

The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception.

Charles Simmons

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

William Shakespeare

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

Edgar Degas

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Bertrand Russell

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

Billy Higgins

Let's just say that more intelligence is needed. You can't just run up and do this, you have to think about it.

Bat for Lashes

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

Dick Cheney

We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions.

Jewish Proverb

You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.

Adam Schiff

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.