Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Burke

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Edmund Burke

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Edmund Burke

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Eckhart Tolle

Where ever you are, be there totally.

E. W. Howe

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

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.

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.

Andre Gide

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

Anatole France

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

Anatole France

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Anais Nin

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

Alvin Toffler

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Andrew Zuckerman

Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.

Andrew Young

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Andrei Sakharov

Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.

Christopher Reeve

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

Ambrose Bierce

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

Ambrose Bierce

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

Ambrose Bierce

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.