Best Quotes Around the World

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God’s pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

We boil at different degrees.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we’d given customers what they said they wanted, we’d have built a computer they’d have been happy with a year after we spoke to them – not something they’d want now.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

I love driving my car on any highway.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

My wheelchair is like the Cadillac of wheelchairs; it goes up and down and back, and I can lay down in it.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Peace begins with a smile.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what’s sexy or cool or tough.

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.