Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.

Henry David Thoreau

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Henry David Thoreau

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Manly Hall

The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.

Malcolm Muggeridge

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

Malcolm X

When the thing is finally sparked, the white man is not there - he's gone. The merchant is not there, the landlord is not there, the one they consider to be the enemy isn't there. So, they knock at his property. This is what makes them knock down the store windows and set fire to things, and things of that sort.

Malcolm X

In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being

Malcolm X

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Malcolm X

A man without any history is like a tree without roots

Malcolm X

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

Mahatma Gandhi

Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating

John C. Maxwell

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

John Adams

I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom.

John Adams

Major Greene this evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the argument he advanced was, "that a mere creature or finite being could not make satisfaction to infinite justice for any crimes," and that "these things are very mysterious." Thus mystery is made a convenient cover for absurdity.

Joe Pesci

You try too hard. Winners forget they're in a race. They just love to run.

Jacob Bronowski

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Eric Hoffer

One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.

Eric Hoffer

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

James Anthony Froude

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

John Boyle O'Reilly

The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.

Orson Scott Card

The only way to learn is by changing your mind.

Orson Scott Card

If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

Pankaj Mishra

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

Sophocles

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

Sophocles

Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.

Sophocles

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Stephen Leacock

The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.