Best Quotes Around the World

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

When I’m around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you’re supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

I don’t digest things with my mind.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity – everything was anonymous or pseudonymous – and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did.

When I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

Small aim is a crime.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Never confuse motion with action.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do – like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They can learn a language – sign language – and they can use the signs. But when you think of our intellects, even the brightest chimp looks like a very small child.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.