Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. Whitney Brown

The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.

A. S. Byatt

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

Abraham Lincoln

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Abraham Lincoln

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

Abraham Lincoln

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Cyril Connolly

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

E. W. Howe

No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.

Paul Simon

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Robert Burns

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

Ram Dass

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

Mahatma Gandhi

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Kurt Vonnegut

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

David Jeremiah

Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

David Jeremiah

Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?

David Jeremiah

When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.

David Jeremiah

If you face a challenging task from God today, ask yourself, "How would Jesus handle this?" Then go and do the same.

David Eddings

The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place. What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experience.

David Wilcock

There is only one path, though there are many ways to experience it.

Dante Alighieri

The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

Dan Rather

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

Christopher Morley

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

Billy Graham

Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human being lke that? For a marriage couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic.

Billy Graham

The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary." The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness. "Happily incompatible" is a good adjustment.

Meryl Streep

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Samuel Richardson

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

Confucius

To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is the real wisdom.

Ludwig von Mises

The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern industrialism and all the moral, intellectual, technological, and therapeutical achievements of the last centuries have been built.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

William Shakespeare

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

William Shakespeare

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.