Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pindar

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Phillip Adams

Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity is, if you like, a forgery of fame: it has the form but lacks the content.

Peter Abelard

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Paulo Coelho

I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow. May the fire of love grow in our hearts. May the fire of transformation glow in our movements. May the fire of purification burn away our sins. May the fire of justice guide our steps. May the fire of wisdom illuminate our paths. May the fire that spreads over the Earth never be extinguished.

Plutarch

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Mother Teresa

All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart

Victor Hugo

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

Victor Hugo

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Victor Hugo

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Victor Hugo

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom is the health of the soul.

Victor Hugo

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

Victor Hugo

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

Victor Hugo

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

Victor Hugo

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

Victor Hugo

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

Victor Hugo

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

Victor Hugo

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

Victor Hugo

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

Victor Hugo

To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

Victor Hugo

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

Victor Hugo

We are for religion against the religions.

Victor Hugo

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

Victor Hugo

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

Victor Hugo

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

Victor Hugo

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

Victor Hugo

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.