Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles M. Schulz

There is no greater burden than great potential.

William Shakespeare

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

William Shakespeare

With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

Beth Moore

God doesn't work for us; we work for God.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Love me, love my dog.

Benjamin Hoff

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet . Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said. "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh ," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said."

Bill Withers

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

Bill Veeck

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

Bill Watterson

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

Betty Smith

Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him.

Benjamin Whichcote

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.

Charlton Heston

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

John Powell

There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.

Bill O'Reilly

We are all born with a grab bag of gifts and gaps. Identify your true talents, then find out how to use them to make money.

Bertolt Brecht

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Bertolt Brecht

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Benjamin Franklin Fairless

Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.

Bertrand Russell

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.

Bertrand Russell

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Bernard Baruch

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

C. S. Lewis

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

C. S. Lewis

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

C. S. Lewis

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

C. S. Lewis

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

Carl Jung

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Carl Jung

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Carl Jung

Only the wounded physician heals.

Carl Jung

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Dora Russell

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

Dora Russell

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

Colleen McCullough

Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.

Dalai Lama

My enemy is my greatest teacher.

Dalai Lama

Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.