Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain Badiou

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

Alain de Botton

To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.

Al Capone

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

Charles Kingsley

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Charles Churchill

A joke's a very serious thing.

Charles Darwin

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

Charles Darwin

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Charles Darwin

Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Blaise Pascal

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

Blaise Pascal

If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

Blaise Pascal

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

Blaise Pascal

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

Blaise Pascal

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Blaise Pascal

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Bill Hybels

Humility enables us to learn from each other.

Bill Hybels

I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.

Kenny Chesney

I've gotten to meet so many people who've inspired me as a human being.

Brigham Young

Daily toil, however humble it may be, is our daily duty, and by doing it well, we make it a part of our daily worship.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbors, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor [can] humility mitigate.

Bruce Lee

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

Bruce Lee

Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

Brooks Atkinson

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

Brother Lawrence

I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.

Brother Lawrence

God as we ought to worship Him. God is Spirit, so we must worship Him in spirit and truth, that is, by a humble and true adoration of spirit in the depth and center of our souls.

Brother Lawrence

Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.

Brother Lawrence

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Edmund Burke

Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.

Edmund Burke

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

Eckhart Tolle

There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now if humanity is not to destroy itself and the planet.

Eckhart Tolle

Quality requires your Presence.

Eckhart Tolle

But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.

Elif Safak

A saint belongs to all humanity.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.