Famous Quotes & Sayings

For Doug to say anything is remarkable, and for him to say that many words is very, very remarkable.

Darrell Royal

Amazing. There's just no other word for it. Amazing.

They don't know the word quit. They don't know the word die.

Cynthia Lennon

There was no word from him between 1971 and 1974,

It's a nonevent. If you have to write 1,000 words on this, I feel for you.

It was surprisingly touching. It's more real than words on a page.

Michael Faraday

When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as fully, clearly, and definitely as in mathematical formulae? If so, would it not be a great boon to such as well to express them so -- translating them out of their hieroglyphics that we might also work upon them by experiment?

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Plato

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

Nick Cave

I've got some words of wisdom.

Generally, I don't think words are what matters. It's what's happening.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Kenny Smith

Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the lust to be transfigured, transvaluated.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Jules Verne

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

Michel de Montaigne

If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

I don't think there are any words I could come up with immediately for what that would mean.

How much more can you do at this point? The word is out there,

Gottfried Leibniz

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

Gottfried Leibniz

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

Gottfried Leibniz

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Immanuel Kant

Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

Immanuel Kant

Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.

Eric Byrnes

It's not even close. I can't get that many words in that quickly.

Rick DiPietro

It's frustrating as a goalie. I can't even put it to words right now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

Scott Lynch

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.

Marcus Aurelius

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

Marcus Aurelius

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.

Stanley Crouch

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

Stanley Crouch

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

Ramana Maharshi

The solution to your problem is to see who has it.

Dan Millman

Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied that we have only to look, listen, and trust the love and wisdom of the Universal Spirit working through us all.