Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Victor Hugo

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Victor Hugo

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Victor Hugo

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

Victor Hugo

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

Victor Hugo

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Victor Hugo

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Victor Hugo

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

Victor Hugo

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Victor Hugo

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Richard Bach

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

Robert Frost

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

Robert Fulghum

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

Robert Fulghum

Even if your watch is full of diamonds the hour is still 60 minutes

Robert Frost

The only way round is through.

Richard E. Byrd

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.

Rene Descartes

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

Rene Descartes

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Thomas Paine

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Thomas Paine

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer...

Thomas Paine

We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.

Thomas Hood

A moment's thinking is an hour in words.

Thomas Huxley

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

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.

Walt Whitman

Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

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.