Famous Quotes

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Robertson Davies:

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

Oscar Wilde:

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

Pico Iyer, Time:

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Plato, Laws:

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

John Maxwell:

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

John Locke:

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

Louis Pasteur:

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891:

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

William Shakespeare:

Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

Mary Shelley:

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

William Congreve, Love for Love (1695):

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

Unknown:

Not all those who wonder are lost.

Author Unknown:

Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche:

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.