Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Charles Caleb Colton

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery is not profoundness.

Charles Caleb Colton

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

Charles Caleb Colton

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

Charles Caleb Colton

Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.

Charles Caleb Colton

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

Charles Caleb Colton

What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

Charles Simmons

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Charles Stanley

God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.

Charles Stanley

Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear brethren, this is exactly what we have to do, we have to pawn the present for the future. We must be satisfied to give up anything which Christ may require of us for the sake of that which is to come. Our inheritance is not on this side of Jordan. Our joy is yet to be revealed. I grant you that we have much thrown in, for the Lord is a good paymaster; but on the road to heaven he gives us only our spending money.

Charles Spurgeon

Let us be banded together as one man; let us contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints; let us pray with fervour, let us live in holiness, let us preach constantly, and preach with fire, and let us so live, that we may impress our age, and leave our footprints on the sands of time.

Charles Spurgeon

That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.

Charles Spurgeon

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.

Alan Watts

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Akhenaton

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

David McCullough

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

Dave Barry

SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single question measures any bit of knowledge that anyone might actually need in the real world. We should applaud kids for getting lower scores.

Carl Sagan

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

Bryce Courtenay

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

Catherine Helen Spence

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

William Shakespeare

Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

William Shakespeare

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.

William Shakespeare

There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a willful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dressed in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit; As who should say, I am sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

Bob Woodward

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

Edith Wharton

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

David Icke

Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.

David Hume

Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.

August Strindberg

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Arnold Palmer

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Deepak Chopra

For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space.