Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Kushner

It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.

Stendhal

I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.

Sigmund Freud

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Sigmund Freud

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

Shirley Hazzard

Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the same. Those returning in such ships were invincible, for they had managed it and could reflect ever after on Anne Hathaway's Cottage or the Tower of London with a confidence that did generate at Sydney. There was nothing mythic at Sydney; momentous objects, beings and events all occurred abroad or in the elsewhere of books.

Steven Levitt

I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists - that there's another side to be heard.

Steven Amsterdam

The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.

Susan Jeffers

O Lord, please fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and nudge me when I've said enough. Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is" I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are. - Wayne Dyer Learn the richness of solitude and quiet. That "still small voice" is yearning to be heard.

Richard Moss

To me, wholeness is the key to aliveness. It is more than just physical vitality, it is radiance, coming from being at one with yourself and your experience. Life then flows through you.

Richard Mitchell

Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.

Sydney J. Harris

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Suze Orman

You're thinking to yourself, 'How is it possible that I am going to pay back $150,000 in student loans? I'm never going to pay that back. What am I going to do?' Listen to me and listen to me good, class of 2013. I want you to think back to all of these things you said to yourself, 'I can't do that. I can't palpate a cow. And what's worse, palpating a cow or taking semen from a horse?' But you did it, didn't you?

Scott Adams

Am I getting smart with you? How would you know?

Scott Adams

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

Scott Adams

Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow.

Scott Adams

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

Kevin J. Anderson

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

Kent Nerburn

There are many ways to seek wisdom. There is travel, there are masters, there is service. There is staring into the eyes of children and elders and lovers and strangers. There is sitting silently in one spot and there is being swept along in life's turbulent current. Life itself will grant you wisdom in ways you may neither understand nor choose. It is up to you to be open to all these sources of wisdom and to embrace them with your whole heart.

Keith Miller

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Katy Perry

You never know what's actually going on in a person's life. You don't know what happened to them before you met them...and that's why they are the way they are. But I do think about it whenever I get in contact with my fans. I know this may be the only time they'll ever meet me. I try to take advantage of that moment and be kind and grateful.

Ramana Maharshi

He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.

Ramana Maharshi

The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Lin Yutang

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Thomas Aquinas

Don't ask who said it? Ask what they said.