Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Savage Landor

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.

Walter Savage Landor

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

Walter Savage Landor

All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

Walter Scott

A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some of our Edinburgh philosophers tried to produce their equal in vain. I was one of a party at dinner where the philosophical haddocks were placed in competition with the genuine Finnan fish. These were served round without distinguishing whence they came; but only one gentleman out of twelve present espoused the cause of philosophy.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken -- errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.

Winston Churchill

No one should waste a day.

Winston Churchill

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty...

Winston Churchill

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

Winston Churchill

Nothing should be done for spite's sake.

Winston Churchill

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

Winston Churchill

Nothing is perfect on the human stage...

Winston Churchill

You must look at facts, because they look at you.

Winston Churchill

Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.

Winston Churchill

There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.

Winston Churchill

There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.

Winston Churchill

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Winston Churchill

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

William S. Burroughs

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

William Mapother

I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.

William Kristol

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

William Kristol

I'm disappointed, depressed, and demoralized. [...] It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on constitutional philosophy. Miers is undoubtedly a decent and competent person. But her selection will unavoidably be judged as reflecting a combination of cronyism and capitulation on the part of the president.

Woody Guthrie

Take it easy, but take it.

Woody Allen

We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices...

Woody Allen

A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.

Woody Allen

You know what my philosophy of life is? That it’s important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little too, because otherwise you miss the whole point to life.

Woody Allen

In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure that we know we knew it, if indeed it is at all knowable. Or have we simply forgotten it and are too embarrassed to say anything? Descartes hinted at the problem when he wrote, 'My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

Woody Allen

The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?

Woody Allen

There will be no major solution to the suffering of humanity until we reach some understanding of who we are, what the purpose of creation was, what happens after death. Until those questions are resolved we are caught.

Woody Allen

My ex-wife was a philosophy major at NYU. Yeah, she and I used to have deep philosophical discussions where she would prove that I didn't exist.

William Wordsworth

The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.

William Shatner

Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national phenomenon. ... And to be unflatteringly frank, it bugged me. ... [Then, Gene Roddenberry] said to me the wisest thing he could possibly have uttered. He said, `Don't ever fear having good and popular people around you, because they can only enhance your own performance. The more you can play to these people, the better the show.'

William Shatner

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

William J. Clinton

We're all in this together is a far better philosophy than you're on your own.