2098 Quotations Found

There are people who get exactly what they want. You think they’re the lucky ones, but they’re not. The lucky ones are those who do what they are meant to do.

Author: Neem Karoli Baba | Subjects: Life & Society, Meaning, Wisdom

Here’s the problem: You begin to develop attachments to meaningless things, to sense objects. From those attachments, you make choices. From those choices, you find preferences. From those preferences, you identify with the best or the worst attributes of some of them. That identification takes you directly to the land of illusion, because those attributes are meaningless. From that identification comes cognitive dissonance. As a … [ Read more ]

Author: Larry Brilliant | Subjects: Philosophy, Wisdom

Liberty resides in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

Author: John Stuart Mill | Subjects: Freedom | Liberty, Philosophy

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

Author: Frank Zappa | Subjects: Journalism, Music

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

Author: T.S. Eliot | Subjects: Literature | Arts, Perception | Observation

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Author: Calvin Coolidge | Subjects: Action | Accomplishment, Persistence, Psychology | Behavior

He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualties.

Author: Unknown | Subject: Productivity & Time Management

To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep – no more and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir … [ Read more ]

Author: William Shakespeare | Subject: Life & Society

We gave the choice of hearts, philosophy, or the law, and I think our only hope lies in the last.

Author: Bruce D. Hartsell | Subject: Law | Legal

Newspapers, radios, libraries pour over us every moment of our lives their stupendous floods of information so that perhaps the greatest educational problem of today is how to teach people to ignore the irrelevant, how to refuse to know things, before they are suffocated. For too many facts are as bad as none at all.

Author: W.H. Auden | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Information

The being who possesses science puts limitless terror into the service of truth.

Author: Ernst Renan | Subjects: Math & Science, Perception | Observation, Philosophy

Thus we presume to write, as it were, upon things that exist not, and travel by maps yet unmade.

Author: Walt Whitman | Subjects: Perception | Observation, Travel

A man who possesses the art of correct reading will, in studying any book, magazine, or pamphlet, instinctively and immediately perceive everything which in his opinion is worth permanently remembering, either because it is suited to his purpose or generally worth knowing […] Then, if life suddenly sets some question before us for examination or answer, the memory, if this method of reading is observed … [ Read more ]

Author: Adolf Hitler | Source: Chapter 2 of Mein Kampf | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Learning

We can be complete, conscious beings only when we have known ourselves through the eyes of another.

Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Source: paraphrased from The Phenomenology of Mind | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Philosophy, Psychology | Behavior

The only thing good without qualification is a good will.

Author: Immanuel Kant | Subjects: Philosophy, Wisdom

We are all angels with only one wing; we can only fly while embracing one another.

Author: Luciano de Crescanzo | Subjects: Life & Society, Relationships

A woman will always bend toward a strong man just as the vine stretches toward the wall.

A woman is always on the verge of abandoning herself anyhow; it only takes one firm push.

Author: Sarah Kernochan | Source: Marie D’Agoult (played by Bernadette Peters) in the movie Impromptu (1991) | Subjects: Feminism, Love, Psychology | Behavior

The most telling thing about anyone is what scares them.

Authors: Anthony E. Zuiker, Jerry Stahl | Source: Lady Heather (character on TV show CSI) | Subjects: Fear, Perception | Observation, Psychology | Behavior

[M]y friends, will you not agree that any society which begins to be doubtful of itself; in which one man looks at another and says: “He may be a traitor,” in which that spirit has disappeared which says: “I will not accept that, I will not believe that—I will demand proof. I will not say of my brother that he may be a traitor,” but … [ Read more ]

Author: Learned Hand | Subjects: Life & Society, Sociology | Anthropology

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

Author: Learned Hand | Subjects: Law | Legal, Personal Improvement, Politics & Public Policy