The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.
Bertrand RussellA loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas CarlyleTo the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
Marcus AureliusI’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.
Michelle ObamaHe that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin FranklinOur country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
Narendra ModiWe have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
Walt DisneyMy lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.
Muhammad AliSometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David ByrneMen may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Joseph AddisonTo keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel JohnsonReligion is compulsory in English schools, you know.
Christopher HitchensThe one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
AristotleThe wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
BuddhaI think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.
Tom BradyI’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CummingsNo man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Khalil GibranThe wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo MachiavelliYou live and learn. At any rate, you live.
Douglas AdamsThere’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.
John LennonHuman behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
PlatoThe stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
Alice MunroIf you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark TwainThe good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand RussellTo start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.
Billy GrahamI can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinPerplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Khalil GibranA lot of truth is said in jest.
EminemThe more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin DisraeliPlato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
AristotleNature is not human hearted.
Lao TzuFacts are stubborn things.
Ronald ReaganAdmiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinAll knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
Leonardo da VinciFootball fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
Hunter S. ThompsonIf we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. KennedyThe more I see the less I know for sure.
John LennonThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
Thomas SowellFools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander PopeWhether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
Barack ObamaI have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.
Matthew McConaugheyBlessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
Henry KissingerIt is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard ShawThose who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin FranklinIn all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.
Kendrick LamarThe truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon BonaparteJesters do often prove prophets.
Joseph AddisonTruth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac NewtonElectrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.
Nikola TeslaThe best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert FrostA man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.
Lyndon B. JohnsonChildren are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.
Joe BidenA man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Will RogersA broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David ThoreauThe noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da VinciLife would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark TwainScience is nothing but perception.
PlatoMost people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
George Orwell