Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chanakya

Sometimes coincidentally an unintelligent person can accomplish a task but that does not mean that he is a knower of means and device or is experienced. A ruler should be careful enough to designate other tasks to such persons.

Charles Baudelaire

Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.

Charles Baudelaire

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

Charles Baudelaire

Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

Chaka Khan

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

Chang-Rae Lee

What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?

Chaim Potok

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

Champ Bailey

It means a lot. It means I'm accountable.

Charlie Hunnam

I mean I’m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.

Charlie Kaufman

Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.

Charlie Kaufman

Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done.

Charlie Munger

If you have only a little capital and are young today, there are fewer opportunities than when I was young. Back then, we had just come out of a depression. Capitalism was a bad word. There had been abuses in the 1920s. A joke going around then was the guy who said, 'I bought stock for my old age and it worked - in six months, I feel like an old man!' "It's tougher for you, but that doesn't mean you won't do well - it just may take more time. But what the heck, you may live longer."

Charlie Munger

To atone, I teach and try to set an example...I love spreading this stuff around. Just because it's trite doesn't mean it isn't right. In fact, I like to say, 'If it's trite, it's right.'

Charlie Munger

There is bound to be a regression toward the mean.

Charlie Munger

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

Charlie Munger

Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it's time.

Charlie Munger

Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding, you get reciprocation tendency, you get deprival super-reaction syndrome, the thing is going away... I mean it just absolutely is designed to manipulate people into idiotic behavior.

Charlie Munger

Some people seem to think there's no trouble just because it hasn't happened yet. If you jump out the window at the 42nd floor and you're still doing fine as you pass the 27th floor, that doesn't mean you don't have a serious problem. I would want to address the problem right now.

Charles Scott Sherrington

Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding one.

Charles Rangel

Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reintegrate into our lives and serve us again as productive members of our civilian community.

Charles Sanders Peirce

By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.

Charles Sanders Peirce

It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis . All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either takes place between two subjects, whether they react equally upon each other, or one is agent and the other patient, entirely or partially, or at any rate is a resultant of such actions between pairs. But by "semiosis" I mean, on the contrary, an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a cooperation of three subjects, such as a sign, its object, and its interpretant, this tri-relative influence not being in any way resolvable into actions between pairs.

Charles Manson

Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.

Charles Manson

There's nothing wrong with being incompetent. It just means you don't have to do as much.

Charles Manson

I play music. People are affected by the music I play. That doesn't mean I direct traffic! That doesn't mean I put a knife in anybody's hand and tell 'em to go kill somebody!

Charles Manson

You invented the words, and you gave me a dictionary and you said, 'These are what the words mean.' Well, this is what they mean to you, but to someone else, they have got a different dictionary.

Charles M. Schulz

Have you ever known anyone who was happy? And was still in his right mind, I mean...

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.

Charles Handy

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

Charles Horton Cooley

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

Charles Horton Cooley

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

Charles Garfield

On course doesn't mean perfect. On course means that even when things don't go perfectly - you are still going in the right direction.

Benjamin Netanyahu

To subdivide this land into two unstable, insecure nations, to try to defend what is indefensible, is to invite disaster. Carving Judea and Samaria out of Israel means carving up Israel.