Famous Quotes & Sayings

. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.

Leonardo da Vinci

You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.

Leonardo da Vinci

When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

Leonardo da Vinci

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

Leonardo da Vinci

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Oscar Wilde

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Oscar Wilde

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Paul Ricoeur

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

Paul Ricoeur

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

Leigh Hunt

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

Muhammad Iqbal

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

Muhammad Ali

This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.

Muhammad Ali

My health is in the hands of Allah, who has ways of testing us. Whatever happens, happens. I a'int the greatest - it's Allah. I gave myself a job. I work for God.

Muhammad Ali

Most people don't pray until they're in trouble. When people need help they pray a lot. But after they get what they want, they slow down. If a man takes five showers a day, his body will be clean. Praying five times a day helps me clean my mind.

Muhammad Ali

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Truth is found neither in Marxism nor in traditional capitalism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically capitalism failed to see the truth in collective enterprise, and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise. Nineteenth century capitalism failed to see that life is social and Marxism failed and still fails to see that life is individual and personal. The Kingdom of God is neither the thesis of individual enterprise nor the antithesis of collective enterprise, but a synthesis which reconciles the truths of both.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters...

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Marguerite Yourcenar

I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

Nicholas Johnson

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

R. Buckminster Fuller

However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.

Publilius Syrus

Wisdom had rather be buffeted than not listened to.

Publilius Syrus

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

Nelson Mandela

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

Nelson Mandela

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.