Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Roosevelt

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Chanakya

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Anne Lamott

I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

Albert Camus

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

Amelia Earhart

Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning.

D. H. Lawrence

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

D. H. Lawrence

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

D. H. Lawrence

The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.

Clarence Darrow

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

Daniel Defoe

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

Alexander Pope

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Alexander Pope

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Alexander Pope

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alex Haley

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

Albert Schweitzer

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.

Douglas MacArthur

He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his effort to achieve increasing production. Representing over a half of Japan's total population, the agriculture workers have become an invincible barrier against the advance of socialistic ideas which would relegate all to the indignity of state servitude.

Doug Larson

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Daniel Quinn

You never actually know how you're going to handle a problem until you actually have it.

Clive James

As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks

Clive James

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

Clive James

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

e. e. cummings

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

e. e. cummings

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality... If poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it's you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else... There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth.

David Livingstone

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

Coretta Scott King

All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.

Confucius

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

Confucius

To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

Confucius

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Confucius

To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.

Confucius

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

Confucius

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.