Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl SaganCharacter is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.
Michelle ObamaVery often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
VoltaireWe’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.
Billy GrahamThe price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James BaldwinTruthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Lao TzuWisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
Hermann HesseThe only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Theodore RooseveltThe cautious seldom err.
ConfuciusEven if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mahatma GandhiI am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar WildeMany sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
Joyce MeyerI’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.
Kurt CobainA little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Khalil GibranWords do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim RohnWhen we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.
Stephen CoveyA lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston ChurchillHe who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.
Galileo GalileiSir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
Abraham LincolnAs long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Coco ChanelEvery man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAnger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma GandhiA wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
HippocratesAs a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin DisraeliEverything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
Albert SchweitzerMy mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.
Denzel WashingtonNever interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon BonaparteIt is not well to make great changes in old age.
Charles SpurgeonThe magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
Madeleine AlbrightNo excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
AristotleRemember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin FranklinThe function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThose thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
William JamesWisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMaybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.
David ByrneYou cannot open a book without learning something.
ConfuciusMen do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous HuxleyTraining is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark TwainDo not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas JeffersonHe who knows best knows how little he knows.
Thomas JeffersonI can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
Carl SaganYouth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard ShawOur 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 ModiThe supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
Blaise PascalHe 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 AsimovKeep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin FranklinAll these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.
Kanye WestWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl SaganWhat can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel KantThe word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.
Carl JungThe time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham LincolnLight troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaA man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
Abraham LincolnKnowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James MadisonNeither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Jean-Paul SartreSelf-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen KellerNobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Theodore RooseveltIn a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
Maya AngelouTruth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Francis Bacon