Best Quotes Around the World

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a ‚crisis of democracy‘ from too much participation of the masses.

People want you to fail.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

One way to stop illegal immigration is a border wall.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

TV’s a big deal in prison. A big deal. People watch it nonstop.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

It’s nice to be included in people’s fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Necessity… the mother of invention.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

For greed all nature is too little.

People love conspiracy theories.