Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: prejudice equanimity opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why be a man when you can be a success? —Bertolt Brecht More about this quote Tags: success Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe that people come into your life and then some go. I also think there’s a purpose as to why they were in your life at all. Each one takes a piece of you when they go. Some leave pieces of themselves with you. Sometimes it’s wisdom, or maybe, it’s a lesson. —Shey Stahl in Waiting for You More about this quote Tags: life learning memory people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ambition can creep as well as soar. —Edmund Burke More about this quote Tags: ambition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. —Peter De Vries More about this quote Tags: humor writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. —Andre Breton More about this quote Tags: love learning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. —Jack Handey More about this quote Tags: hate humor violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. —E. B. White More about this quote Tags: humor science analysis dissection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. —Walter Bagehot More about this quote Tags: sin temptation vice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: humanity wrong right Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child. —Henning Mankell in When the Snow Fell More about this quote Tags: forgetting growing up getting old Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Without labor nothing prospers. —Sophocles More about this quote Tags: accomplishment labor work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is metaphysical gravity. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: love gravity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. —Sydney Smith More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge discretion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email