We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.
Jurgen KloppI 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 BaconIt is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWhat women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.
Kevin HartAccess to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
J. Robert OppenheimerMan – a being in search of meaning.
PlatoTo find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
Arthur SchopenhauerPart of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.
Alice WalkerFacts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
Thomas SowellDon’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Ludwig van BeethovenThere are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.
Michelle ObamaThe intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
George OrwellI have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
Baruch SpinozaBlessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Alexander PopeMen seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas CarlyleWe run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
Blaise PascalWhat 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 DyerNothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas CarlyleThe last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
Blaise PascalPerception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.
John KennedyNo one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Brian TracyI tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
Kurt VonnegutHow do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?
Lou HoltzI’d like to think I’m a great teacher.
Gordon RamsayRather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David ThoreauI’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
Alice WalkerNobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Theodore RooseveltSome like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.
Paul AusterIt is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
Terry PratchettI want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThey 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 JolieDesign is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.
Steve JobsJudgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
Wayne DyerI like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.
Bertrand RussellPeople may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
John C. MaxwellThe truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
VoltaireI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
SocratesThe only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert EinsteinSee things from the boy’s point of view.
Robert Baden-PowellThought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
David HareThe difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas CarlyleSee first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
Douglas AdamsNothing can be beautiful which is not true.
John RuskinI have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.
Joyce MeyerIf history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard ShawAnd what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
PlatoTo love someone means to see him as God intended him.
Fyodor DostoevskyPeople take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.
RihannaThe way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaAs soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam ChomskyIf I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Angelina JolieHabit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise PascalA man’s character is his guardian divinity.
HeraclitusImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinThe best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.
Jocko WillinkUnbeing dead isn’t being alive.
E. E. CummingsI think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand RussellThe pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
Benjamin DisraeliIt is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
VoltaireSometimes 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 Quayle