Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Edward Gibbon

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

Edmund Waller

With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

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.

Alan Sugar

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

Alan Kay

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Charlotte Bronte

Conventionality is not morality.

Charlie Chaplin

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.

Charles de Gaulle

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Lint

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

Charles Dickens

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

Chanakya

By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.

Chanakya

We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.

Chanakya

Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.

Chanakya

Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

Chanakya

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

Chanakya

A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.

Chanakya

There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems.

Chanakya

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

Chanakya

Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.

Chanakya

Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.