Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Wood Krutch

Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Karen Duffy

Happiness is the best cosmetic.

John Locke

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.

John Lennon

We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?

If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.

Jim Rohn

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Joyce Meyer

The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.

Joyce Meyer

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

Joyce Meyer

I want to encourage you to place yourself totally into God's hands and allow Him to be the Manager of your life.

Judith Wright

Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower of tree the hermit tatters of old bark split down and strip to end the season; and can be quiet and not look for reasons past the edge of reason.

Joseph Conrad

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Laurell K. Hamilton

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Liu Xiaobo

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

Luke Ford

Everything we do affects other people.

Louis E. Boone

It is often argued that the people who will be affected by a major decision should be involved in it. Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal in southern Africa, once resolved a dispute between two brothers about a land inheritance they were to share. Kruger's decision: let one brother divide the land, and let the other brother have first choice.

Louis D. Brandeis

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Louis D. Brandeis

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Lord Byron

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Lord Byron

Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

Lord Chesterfield

Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.

Malcolm Forbes

Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.

Malala Yousafzai

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

Maimonides

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

Mahatma Gandhi

If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Frank Lowy

Money is misunderstood. The fact is if you want to be successful - the money will follow you. If you are a doctor, something else will follow you. If you are successful there is an accompaniment. If your goal is just to make money you won't succeed. Money is a commodity to use, not to be dictated by.

Frank McCourt

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Joseph Priestley

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

Josh Billings

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

Josh Billings

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.