Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
Dan QuayleTime is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas AdamsThe infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
Alice WalkerHow is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Alan WattsThere is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark TwainIt occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
EpicurusThinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
PlatoNothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaNo one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve JobsEither you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
Noam ChomskyListen with your eyes for feelings.
Stephen CoveyGod is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Stephen KingHow could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao TzuIt stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert EinsteinLife is the childhood of our immortality.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMan consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
Woody AllenBeauty is a short-lived tyranny.
SocratesA psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
Carl JungExample is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund BurkeWe are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
BuddhaScience is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
Albert EinsteinLive your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Immanuel KantEverything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
William JamesEvery man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
Friedrich NietzscheWe call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Albert CamusLove is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Emily DickinsonThought is the parent of the deed.
Thomas CarlyleThe first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.
Richard P. FeynmanFaith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich NietzscheBeauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI was ill, and everyone could see it but me.
George BestKnowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Henry AdamsPart of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
George OrwellIf you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.
Stephen HawkingI have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
Baruch SpinozaAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinThere are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar WildeKnowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis BaconAfter your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur SchopenhauerI don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.
Tom BradyWe do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma GandhiIf some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.
ConfuciusThey say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Terry PratchettAll cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
Tennessee WilliamsThe invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.
Bill GatesA person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Thomas CarlyleStates are not moral agents.
Noam ChomskyThe way up and the way down are one and the same.
HeraclitusSome people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.
Jim MattisWe are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘
Carl SaganScience investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
Wayne DyerIs it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?
Jiddu KrishnamurtiWhat is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
Wayne DyerTo study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
William James