Browse Quotes

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

“Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

“Most people would sooner die than think — in fact, they do so.”

“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.”

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.”

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“I can resist everything except temptation.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”

“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live.”

“Money often costs too much.”

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'”

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked.”

“In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'”

“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”

“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.”

“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

“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.”

“We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.”

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

“The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”

“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

“The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”

“We must cultivate our garden.”

“The best is the enemy of the good.”

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.”

“From the military school of life. — What does not kill me makes me stronger.”

“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”

“When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits.”