Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Pitt

There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

Juvenal

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

Juvenal

Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]

Juvenal

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Blaise Pascal

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Blaise Pascal

We know the truth, not only be the reason, but also be the heart.

Charles Spurgeon

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

Demosthenes

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

Dean Koontz

What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.

Daniel Goleman

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

Daniel Handler

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.

Clarence Day

Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.

Elizabeth Janeway

I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.

Elizabeth I

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

Eli Broad

There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.

B. C. Forbes

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

Arthur Helps

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

Bayard Taylor

The stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

Bayard Taylor

The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom." When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

Bayard Taylor

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

Baruch Spinoza

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Arthur Koestler

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

Aristotle

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

Aristotle

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Ed McBain

The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.

Ed Miliband

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

Deepak Chopra

When you make a choice, you change the future.