Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.

Benjamin Franklin

What you would seem to be, be really.

Benjamin Franklin

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

Benjamin Franklin

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

Avicenna

Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal reward. Prayer is the foundation-stone of religion; and religion is the means by which the soul is purified of all that pollutes it. Prayer is the worship of the first cause of all things, the supreme ruler of all the world, the source of all strength. Prayer is the adoration of the one whose being is necessary.

Anton Chekhov

Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

Anton Chekhov

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

Anton Chekhov

I would love to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche on a train or boat and to talk with him all night. Incidentally, I don't consider his philosophy long-lived. It is not so much persuasive as full of bravura.

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Baltasar Gracian

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

Baltasar Gracian

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Baltasar Gracian

Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.

Baltasar Gracian

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

Baltasar Gracian

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

Baltasar Gracian

Be first the master of yourself

Baltasar Gracian

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Anthony Trollope

There's nothing like going on with a thing.

Anthony Trollope

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

Desiderius Erasmus

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Desiderius Erasmus

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

John Powell

There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.

David Brooks

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

Alexis Carrel

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Alexis de Tocqueville

How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

Boethius

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

Bodhidharma

Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

Bodhidharma

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.

Brigham Young

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job right, when I walk out on stage I've got to feel like it's the most important thing in the world. Also I've got to feel like, well, it's only rock and roll. Somehow you've got to believe both of those things.

Brian Tracy

Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay.

Brian Tracy

You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in in harmony with your dominant thoughts.