I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman 1884 - 1972
1884 - 1972
Entire Collection
I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.
Richard Feynman 1918 - 1988
1918 - 1988
To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
Henry James 1843 - 1916
1843 - 1916
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900
1854 - 1900
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking
Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
1879 - 1955
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.
1872 - 1970
'An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish' (1943), in Unpopular Essays (1950)
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers … What they really hate are lousy programmers.
Larry Niven born 1938
born 1938
We are a plague on the Earth. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us…
born 1926
Paraphrase
The words of a dead man Are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden 1907 - 1973
1907 - 1973
The centre that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
W. H. Auden 1907 - 1973
1907 - 1973
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realise our collective dreams.
Terence McKenna 1946 - 2000
1946 - 2000
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
Ivan Illich 1926 - 2002
1926 - 2002
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
Edward Abbey 1927 - 1989
1927 - 1989
Always, you put more of yourself into your work, until one day, you never know exactly which day, it happens—you are your work. The passions that motivate you may change, but it is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
1881 - 1973
Reported by Charlotte Chandler, The Ultimate Seduction (1984)
He forgets that he can die who complains of misery, we are in the power of no calamity, while death is in our own.
Thomas Browne 1605 - 1682
1605 - 1682
The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilisation of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.
1934 - 1996
paraphrase
I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the eons of time – a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution, where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multi-coloured drops that gleam for a moment only to vanish forever. Under such conditioning it seems impossible and even absurd to realise that myself does not reside in the drop alone, but in the whole surge of energy, which ranges from the galaxies to the nuclear fields in my body. At this level of existence, ‘I’ am immeasurably old; my forms are infinite and their comings and goings are simply the pulses or vibrations of a single and eternal flow of energy.
Alan Watts 1915 - 1973
Watts, A. (1966). The book; on the taboo against knowing who you are. New York: Pantheon Books.
1915 - 1973
Watts, A. (1966). The book; on the taboo against knowing who you are. New York: Pantheon Books.
Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good.
Thomas Browne 1605 - 1682
1605 - 1682
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
Six word novel : Attributed to Ernest Hemingway Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Six word novel : Attributed to Ernest Hemingway Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Abraham Lincoln 1809 - 1865
1809 - 1865
I don't think it makes sense to give more importance to a mountain than an ant.
Joan Miró 1893 - 1983
1893 - 1983
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Richard Feynman 1918 - 1988
1918 - 1988
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it
Evelyn Beatrice Hall 1868 - 1956
Her interpretation of Voltaires approach Hall, E. (1907). The friends of Voltaire. New York: Putnam's.
1868 - 1956
Her interpretation of Voltaires approach Hall, E. (1907). The friends of Voltaire. New York: Putnam's.
The inchoate, novel aspect of experience at first resists rationalisation. Born into a contextualising world and persisting within it, the event gradually and in degree allows for conceptualisation, and can be understood in such terms. In the course of time, the event begins to disperse and return, at first disappointing and then ultimately compromising those same rational structures that earlier promised meaning.
Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation
Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation
Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Ambrose Bierce 1842 - 1914
Bierce, A. (1906). The cynic's word book. New York: Doubleday, Page, & Company.
1842 - 1914
Bierce, A. (1906). The cynic's word book. New York: Doubleday, Page, & Company.