All Quotes and Proverbs

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."

Albert Einstein

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Everything will pass, and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain."

Mikhail Bakunin

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Everything you can imagine is real."

Pablo Picasso

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."

Lewis Carroll "Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland"

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "The Hound of the Baskervilles"

Good and Evil

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."

Charles Baudelaire

Art and Culture

Good and Evil

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm."

Brian Masters

Beauty and Ugliness

Good and Evil

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of speading even against it."

Paramahansa Yogananda

Good and Evil

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Exactitude is not truth."

Henri Matisse

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

Edmund Burke

Education

Human

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."

Brian Tracy

Power and Weakness

Talent and Genius

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow."

Honoré De Balzac

Joy and Sadness

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."

Anita Brookner

God and Religion

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."

Joseph Roux "Meditations of a Parish Priest"

Various

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."

Celine-Louis-Ferdinand

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Experience is a good school. But the fees are high."

Heinrich Heine

Defeates and Mistakes

Education

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."

Minna Antrim "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Education

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best."

Spanish Proverbs

Education

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."

Aldous Huxley "Texts and Pretexts"

Education

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."

Franklin P. Jones

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother."

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Memory

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

Oscar Wilde "Lady Windermere's Fan"

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Experience is the teacher of all things."

Julius Caesar

Education

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."

Dan Stanford

Education

Various

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Experience is what you get while looking for something else."

Federico Fellini

Education

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment."

Michel de Montaigne

Intellect, Judgement

Memory

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Experience without learning is better than learning without experience."

English Proverbs

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Experiments are mediators between nature and idea."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Sayings in Prose"

Nature and Animals

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other."

William Faulkner

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows."

John Updike "Buchanan Dying"

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Facts are many, but the truth is one."

Rabindranath Tagore

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

Ansel Adams

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

Aldous Huxley

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Facts without theory is trivia. Theory without facts is bullshit."

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Science and Technology

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."

Zig Ziglar

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."

Napoleon Hill

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."

Jules Renard

Defeates and Mistakes

Envy

Success and Fame

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Failure is success if we learn from it."

Malcolm Forbes

Defeates and Mistakes

Success and Fame

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Failure is the only opportunity to begin more intelligently."

Henry Ford

Defeates and Mistakes

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail."

John Wooden

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Fairy tales are more than true - not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

Voltaire "Questions sur l'Encyclopédie"

God and Religion

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education."

Wilson Mizner "Epigrams"

Education

God and Religion

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Faith is not faith until it's all you're holding on to."

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God and Religion

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

Martin Luther King

Trust

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has accepted, in spite of your changing moods."

Clive Staples Lewis "Mere Christianity"

God and Religion

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."

Rabindranath Tagore

God and Religion

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."

St. Augustine of Hippo

God and Religion

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)