There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.
Dwayne JohnsonThe misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
EpicurusHow could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao TzuAn idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. MenckenIf 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 AddisonJesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.
Joyce MeyerWe do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Richard M. NixonThe true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar WildeAll religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert EinsteinNo obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.
Stephen HawkingI had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
Alexander the GreatIt is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
William JamesIt has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand RussellThe hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert EinsteinReligions get lost as people do.
Franz KafkaI think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.
David BowieA human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.
Carl JungI don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
Bill GatesIt is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
VoltaireKnowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
PlatoPerplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Khalil GibranI grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas CarlyleIt takes a smart man to play dumb.
Mr. TMan is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
Gilbert K. ChestertonSin is geographical.
Bertrand RussellBut by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.
Ho Chi MinhAll human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul SartreIt’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.
Joe BidenWe are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. KennedySometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.
Jim MattisKnowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Hermann HesseEternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
Woody AllenEyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
HeraclitusYou know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerAn Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard ShawYou are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.
Thich Nhat HanhWe must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
AristotleBeyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da VinciIt is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
J. Robert OppenheimerI believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.
Stephen HawkingPictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Francis BaconA celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Napoleon BonaparteAs men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Blaise PascalMy faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
Denzel WashingtonWords are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
Mark TwainAll our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel KantChaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
BuddhaIn order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
Albert CamusChanges are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.
George LucasOnly on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
George Bernard ShawHe had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac AsimovI hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.
Stephen HawkingThe Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert EinsteinDon’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
Tennessee WilliamsNo man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Khalil GibranWhen a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
Charles DickensWe need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.
Barack ObamaNature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero