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“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
Bruce Lee
“To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.”
George Orwell
“Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.”
Corliss Lamont
“A good deed never goes unpunished.”
Gore Vidal
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”
Gore Vidal
“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Jane Austen
“Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”
Confucius
“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.”
Confucius
“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Never spend your money before you have earned it.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.”
Thomas Jefferson
“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.”
Antoine de Saint Exupery
“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”
Sigmund Freud
“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”
Sigmund Freud
“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”
Sigmund Freud
“The ego is not master in its own house.”
Sigmund Freud
“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
Sigmund Freud
“The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.”
Sigmund Freud
“In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.”
John Barrymore
“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.”
Marilyn Monroe
“To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.”
Marilyn Monroe
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
Abraham Lincoln
