Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig van Beethoven

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Lucan

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

Luc de Clapiers

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

Luc de Clapiers

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Louis Nizer

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

Louis Pasteur

Science belongs to no one country.

Louis Pasteur

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Lord Chesterfield

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

Lord Chesterfield

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Lord Chesterfield

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Lord Chesterfield

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

Jim Valvano

Nothing can happen if it's not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.

John Churton Collins

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

John Churton Collins

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

John Ciardi

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

John Ciardi

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

John Coltrane

I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it

John Cleese

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

John Cleese

He who laughs most, learns best.

John Bradshaw

We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion

John Buchan

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.

John Buchan

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

M. Russell Ballard

We can become the masters of our own destinies by practicing self-discipline and by setting worthy goals that will lead to higher ground so that we can become what our heavenly father wants us to become.

M. Scott Peck

We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

M. Scott Peck

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

M. Scott Peck

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

M. Scott Peck

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

M. Scott Peck

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

M. Scott Peck

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

M. Scott Peck

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.