Life
Arthur C. Clarke on Intelligence
“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
Gail Sheehy on Change and Life
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.”
Robertson Davies on Children
“A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.”
Mark Twain on Life
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
Danny Kaye on Life
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”
Otto von Bismarck Cynical Quote
“When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of putting it into practice.”
Helen Keller on Knowledge
“Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge – broad, deep knowledge – is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man’s progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.”
Marie Curie on Understanding
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Plato on Light
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life, is when men are afraid of the Light.”
David Russell on Life
“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
Erma Bombeck on Life
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me”.
Anonymous Quote
“Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.”
Annie Lennox on Kindness
“Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.”
Cullen Hightower on Mistakes
“Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.”
George Bernard Shaw on Life
“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.”
Alfred Hitchcock on Media
“Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.”
William Goldman on Life
“Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.”
Henry Van Dyke on Death
“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.“
Edith Wharton on Happiness
“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.”
Oscar Wilde on Selfishness
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
Ian Fleming on Time
“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.”
Mark Twain on Desire
“A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.”
Robert Louis Stevenson on Life
“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
Robert Byrne on Life
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
John Ruskin Wisdom Quote
“What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.”