Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly.

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

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.

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.

Henry David Thoreau

After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some golddaily, though it were only the finest particles,--why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine.... At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau

I do not remember anything which Confucius has said directly respecting man's "origin, purpose, and destiny." He was more practical than that. He is full of wisdom applied to human relations,--to the private life,--the family,--government, etc. It is remarkable that, according to his own account, the sum and substance of his teaching is, as you know, to do as you would be done by.

Henry David Thoreau

Webster never goes behind government, and so cannot speak with authority about it. His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate no essential reform in the existing government; but for thinkers, and those who legislate for all time, he never once glances at the subject.... Comparatively, he is always strong, original, and, above all, practical. Still, his quality is not wisdom, but prudence.

Henry David Thoreau

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

Henry David Thoreau

Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

Henry David Thoreau

To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.

Henry David Thoreau

What we need to know in any case is very simple.

Henry David Thoreau

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

Henry David Thoreau

When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left.

Henry David Thoreau

Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

Henry David Thoreau

But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.

Henry David Thoreau

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

Henry David Thoreau

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Jerry Seinfeld

I love advertising because I love lying. I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.

James A. Baldwin

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

Jacqueline Carey

It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

Jack Smith

No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

Fulton J. Sheen

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.