Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Gibson

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Will Durant

Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.

Samuel Smiles

The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.

William Feather

We all find time to do what we really want to do.

William Faulkner

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

Whittaker Chambers

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

Saint Augustine

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

Saint Augustine

We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

Saint Augustine

Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?

Richard Dawkins

Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is irreversible. But today I want to present it as something different again, and even more intriguing. The DNA in you is a coded description of ancient worlds in which your ancestors lived. DNA is the wisdom out of the old days, and I mean very old days indeed.

Richard Dawkins

I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an accident I happened to be born into one of them. If I had been born somewhere else, I would have had a different one. Which is a pretty good lesson, actually. Everyone should learn that.

Richard Baxter

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Thomas S. Monson

Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right.

Thomas Reid

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

Thomas Reid

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

Robert Menzies

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

Robert H. Schuller

The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.

Robert Baden-Powell

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

Robert Baden-Powell

See things from the boy's point of view.

Robert Baden-Powell

O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.

Robert Baden-Powell

When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

Robert Baden-Powell

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Robert Baden-Powell

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Robert Baden-Powell

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Robert Baden-Powell

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

Richard M. Nixon

I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth

Richard M. Nixon

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

Rebecca Taylor

Whatever someone told you, you can never be sure of what they said. Whatever someone said, you can never be sure of what you were meant to understand - so if it's really this complicated, what's the point of trying to infer things when you can just ask.

Richard Rohr

Transformed people transform people.

Roger Ebert

What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.

Roger Ebert

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

Roger Ebert

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

Rod Taylor

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.