Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

Ayn Rand

I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important ...

Ayn Rand

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Audra McDonald

...I tried to kill myself. It was a feeble attempt, but I did. And I got put in a mental hospital for a month, and I got myself straight and worked on my mental health...it's nothing that I hide. It's nothing to be proud of or to be ashamed of. It's part of my life, you know? And I'm still here!

Bertrand Russell

When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

Bertrand Russell

Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred.

Bertrand Russell

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Benjamin Disraeli

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

Benjamin Disraeli

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

Benjamin Disraeli

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

Elbert Hubbard

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Elbert Hubbard

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.

The result showed the wisdom of your orders.

Germaine Greer

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Germaine Greer

Act quickly, think slowly.

Harry Dean Stanton

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

Horace

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

Horace

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Herbie Hancock

Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.

Herbert Spencer

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.

Herbert Spencer

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Herman Melville

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

Herman Melville

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

Herman Melville

It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.

Herb Caen

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Henry David Thoreau

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

Henry David Thoreau

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.