All Quotes and Proverbs

"The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand."

Cesare Lombroso

Intellect, Judgement

Knowledge, Ignorance

"The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."

Aleksandr Pushkin

Reality and Imagination

Truth and Falsity

"The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Letters and Social Aims"

Reality and Imagination

"The imagination is one of the forces of nature."

Wallace Stevens

Nature and Animals

Reality and Imagination

"The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream — he awoke and found it truth."

John Keats

Reality and Imagination

"The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women."

Karl Kraus "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."

Hubert Humphrey

Authority, Government

Friendship and Hostility

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

Sir William Bragg

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."

Will Rogers "The Illiterate Digest"

Richness and Money

Sports

"The increase in wisdom can be measured precisely by the decrease in bile."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Wisdom and Stupidity

"The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."

Elbert Green Hubbard "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

Envy

Forgiveness

"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."

Bertrand Russell "Sceptical Essays"

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

"The intellectual world is divided into two classes - dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other."

Miguel de Unamuno

Intellect, Judgement

"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Intellect, Judgement

"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell."

Simone Weil

Intellect, Judgement

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."

Francis Bacon

Art and Culture

"The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

Chinese Proverbs

Various

"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided."

Casey Stengel

Authority, Government

"The key to education is the experience of beauty."

Friedrich von Schiller

Beauty and Ugliness

Education

"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top."

Napoleon Hill

Success and Fame

"The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence above language."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Friendship and Hostility

"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes."

Victor Frankl

Freedom and Servitude

Human

"The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next."

William Faulkner

Human

"The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former."

Jonathan Swift

Wisdom and Stupidity

"The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms - hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal."

James Thurber

Manners and Ethics

Various

"The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes."

Martin Buber

Law and Crime

"The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be."

Raymond Chandler "The Long Goodbye"

Justice

Law and Crime

"The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children."

Mahatma Gandhi

Love

Youth and Age

"The law often allows what honor forbids."

Bernard Joseph Saurin

Law and Crime

Manners and Ethics

"The law says you can have only one spouse. This is called monotony."

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Law and Crime

Marriage

"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. "

Henry David Thoreau "Slavery in Massachusetts"

Freedom and Servitude

Human

Law and Crime

"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Law and Crime

Truth and Falsity

"The least of learning is done in the classrooms."

Thomas Merton

Education

"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings."

William Hazlitt "Complete Works"

Egoism

Pain and Tears

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."

Alfred Hitchcock

Art and Culture

"The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends."

Gerald Ford

Family and Loneliness

Life and Death

Love

"The less grace there is in the soul, the more ornament must be on the body."

Fulton John Sheen "Peace of Soul"

Beauty and Ugliness

Good and Evil

"The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy."

Gerry Spence

Freedom and Servitude

Richness and Money

"The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves."

James A. Garfield

History and Nations

"The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."

Anita Brookner

Justice

Life and Death

Wisdom and Stupidity

"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."

Lenny Bruce "The Essential Lenny Bruce"

Politics and Diplomacy

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it."

James M. Barrie "The Little Minister"

Life and Death

"The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long."

Bertrand Russell

Life and Death

"The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday."

Georg Büchner "The Hessian Messenger"

Life and Death

Richness and Money

"The life of the wolf is the death of the lamb."

English Proverbs

Life and Death

Nature and Animals

"The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep."

Woody Allen

Friendship and Hostility

"The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books."

T. E. Lawrence

Health and Alcohol

"The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale."

Phyllis Rose "Women's Lives"

Art and Culture

Woman and Man