Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.

Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.

Toni Morrison

Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

Tommy Douglas

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

Tom Morello

Poverty is curable, but it's just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

Toby Young

I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them.

What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

Tichina Arnold

I call myself taking control of a situation, but sometimes you really have to learn to humble yourself and to submit yourself. I'm not really good with submission, so that's the part of marriage and relationships that I've found very hard to deal with.

Sam Houston

I humble myself before God, and there the list ends.

Sam Harris

The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second most important moral principle for all the generations of humanity?

Russell Simmons

At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness.

Ronald Reagan

This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.

Ronald Reagan

I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers.

Ronald Reagan

[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House

Ronald Reagan

Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.

Ronald Reagan

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

Ron Paul

Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.

Sam Levenson

The American success formula is first to get a home of your own, then to get a car of your own so you don't have to stay in that home of your own.

Rumi

Humble yourself, you’ll grow greater than the world.Your Self will be revealed to you, without you.

Rumi

Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.

Rumi

The whole universe is contained within a single human being - you.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Communists , following Hegel , speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

Simone Weil

There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.

Simone Weil

Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul , not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change . There must be absolutely acceptance of the possibility that everything material in us should be destroyed. But we must simultaneously accept and repudiate the possibility that the supernatural part of the soul should disappear.

Simone Weil

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

Simone Weil

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Simone Weil

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

Simone Weil

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

Simon Sinek

I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.

Simon Sinek

Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.

Simon Pegg

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.