Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Khalil GibranProselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.
Pope FrancisYou will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
Thomas SowellIf pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Samuel JohnsonI had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis BaconMe is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.
Bob MarleyWhile physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
Stephen HawkingThe natural desire of good men is knowledge.
Leonardo da VinciI want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
Stephen HawkingNo one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry AdamsI do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
Jean-Paul SartreAll thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Immanuel KantAll sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich NietzscheAbsolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry AdamsAn idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. MenckenWhat really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.
Billy GrahamAs I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham LincolnFate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEducation is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar WildeThe most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert EinsteinExpecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
Blaise PascalIf one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
ChanakyaIt is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
Hermann HesseOnce spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Friedrich NietzscheIf we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Joseph AddisonWe might as well die as to go on living like this.
Charlie ChaplinThe learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Alexander PopeA man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel JohnsonWe still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert EinsteinGreat bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
Virginia WoolfWhat you guys want, I’m for.
Dan QuayleWe usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Thomas JeffersonOne must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise PascalThe important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Joseph AddisonThings in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.
Joyce MeyerPhilosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘
Ralph Waldo EmersonCall it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhat if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Woody AllenWhat really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
Friedrich NietzschePeople talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.
Leonardo da VinciWe account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
Isaac NewtonIt appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Henry David ThoreauI’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.
Tom BradyWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John MuirTo do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
Napoleon BonaparteThe price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David ThoreauIs it weird in here, or is it just me?
Steven WrightWomen have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
Florence NightingaleEverything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Marcus AureliusMy religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert EinsteinCharacter is destiny.
HeraclitusIt’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.
Joe BidenThe hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMust not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
PlatoNon-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mahatma GandhiTrue friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David ThoreauThey are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.
Angelina JolieRisk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.
Warren Buffett