Word Famous Quotations
- He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.
- Keep thy eyes wide open before
marriage, and half-shut
afterwards.
- No nation was ever ruined by trade.
- Distrust and caution are the
parents of security.
- If you would not be forgotten, as
soon as you are rotten, either
write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.
- He that is of the opinion money
will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
- Democracy is two wolves and
a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb
contesting the vote!
- So convenient a thing it is to be
a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason
for everything one has a mind to do.
- Dost thou love life Then do not
squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.
- I know not which lives more
unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
- Be slow in choosing a friend,
slower in changing.
- The
conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the
law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause
of working for the betterment of society.
- The difference between what the
most and the least learned peopleknow is inexpressibly trivial
in relation to that which is unknown.
- There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
- What is the meaning
of human life, or of organiclifealtogether To answer this question
at all implies areligion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting
it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of hisfellow
creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost
disqualified for life.
- The most beautiful thing we
can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.
- The significant problems we have
cannot be solved at the samelevel of thinking with which we created
them.
- Peace cannot be kept by force. It
can only be achieved by understanding.
- It is characteristic of
the militarymentality that nonhuman factors (atom
bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw
materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires,
and thoughts – in short, the psychological factors – are considered as
unimportant and secondary…The individual is degraded…to “human
materiel”.
- The grand aim of all science is
to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction
from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
- If my theory
of relativity is proven successful, Germanywillclaim me as a German
and Francewill declare that I am a citizen of the world.
- It is only to the individual that
a soul is given.
- Children are never too
tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them,
the more tender they become.
- It may well be doubted
whether humaningenuity can construct an enigma… which humaningenuity may
not, by proper application, resolve.
- Science has not yet taught us
if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
- I became insane, with long
intervals of horrible sanity
- There are certain themes of which
the interest is all-absorbing,
but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of
legitimate fiction.
- Those who dream by day are
cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
- Depend upon it, after all,
Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is
about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing
me from the path.
- Sleep, those little slices of
death, how I loathe them.
- Sleep, those little slices of
death; Oh how I loathe them.
- All that we see and seem is but
a dream within a dream.
- Take this kiss upon the brow And,
in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow–You are not wrong who
deemThat my dayshave been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night,
or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less goneAll
that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
- N.B. This quote refers to
the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated
the individualright to bear arms.
- I want freedom for the full
expression on my personality.
- In the attitude of silence
the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and
deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and
arduous quest after Truth.
- We must become the change we want
to see.
- Live simply that others may
simply live.
- Freedom is not worth having if it
does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- What difference does it make to
the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is
wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty
or democracy
- You must not lose faith
in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.
- Always aim at complete harmony
of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and
everything will be well.
- There are seven sins in the
world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge
without character, Commerce without morality, Science without
humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics withoutprinciple.
- There is no path to peace. Peace
is the path.
Mark Twain Quotes
- I can live two months on a
good compliment.
- Let us not be too particular; it
is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
- Just the omission of Jane
Austen’s books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library
that hadn’t a book in it.
- When in doubt, tell the truth.
- Whenever the literary German
dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him
until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in
his mouth.
- [Mankind] is governed by
minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings
and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise.
Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter,
the crowd follows it.
- Good breeding consists
in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the otherperson.
- I have spent most of my time
worrying about thigs that have never happened.
- If Christ were here now there is
one thing he would not be a christian.
- Youth, large, lusty, loving-
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age
may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination
- How come we rejoice at a birth
and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Emily Dickinson Quotes
- Poetry is not a turning
loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression
of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only
those we havepersonality and emotionknow what it means towant to escape
from these things.
- Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and
never stopsat all.
- Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all.
- …the fog is rising.
- I hope you love birds too. It is
economical. It saves going to heaven.
- Success is counted sweetest by
those who ne’er succeed.
- A littleMadness in the Spring Is
wholesome even for the King.
- There’s a certain Slant of
light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral
Tunes–
- I dwell in possibility…
- Anger as soon as fed is dead-
‘Tis starving makes it fat.
- Because I could not stop
for Death — He kindly stopped for me — The carriage held but just
ourselvesAndimmortality.
Winston Churchill Quotes
- The inherent vice of capitalism is the
unequal sharing of blessings the inherent virtue of socialism is the
equalsharing of miseries.
- Never, never, never believe any
war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange
voyagecan measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The
statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is
given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of
unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
- I cannot pretend to feel
impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am
genuinely sorry for thepoor browns.
- In my belief, you cannot deal
with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the
most amusing.
- Are you insinuating that I am a
purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?
- You will make all kinds of
mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot
hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.
- A cat will look down to a man. A
dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye
and see his equal.
- I cannot forecast to you the
action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
but perhapsthere is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
- When you get to the end of your
rope tie a knot and hang on.
- Never in the field of human
conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Virtuous motives, trammeled by
inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A
sincerelove of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of
humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning
assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.
Aristotle Quotes
- This only is denied to God: the power to
undo the past.
- It is easy to fly into a
passion–anybody can do that–but to be angry with the right person and at
the right timeand with the right object and in the right way–that is
not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
- All men by nature desire
knowledge.
- It is not always the same thing
to be a good man and a good citizen.
- I have gained this by philosophy:
that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the
law.»
- The best friend is the man who in
wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
- To love someone is to identify
with them.
- Those that know, do. Those that
understand, teach.
- There was never a genius without a
tincture of madness.
- In all things of nature there is
something of the marvelous.
- To enjoy the things we ought and
to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of
character.»
George Washington Quotes
- Differences in political opinion are as
unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary.
- To encourage literature and
the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
- The only competition worthy of
a wise man is with himself.
- I hold before you my hand with
each finger standing erect and alone, and as long as they are held thus,
not one of the tasks that the hand may preform can be accomplished. I
cannot lift. I cannot grasp. I cannot hold. I cannot even make an
intelligible sign until my fingers organize and work together. In this
we should also learn alesson.
- One of the things that has helped
me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but
how much I can do while living.
- Be courteous to all, but intimate
with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them
your confidence.True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must
undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to
the appellation.
- Labor to keep alive in
your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
- True friendship is a plant of
slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is
entitled to theappellation.
- Government is not reason; it is
not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a
fearfulmaster.
- Money, we know, will fetch
anything and command the service of any man.
- Be courteous to all, but intimate
with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them
your confidence.True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must
undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to
the appellation.
Helen Keller Quotes
- I long to accomplish a great and noble
task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as
though they were great and noble.
- Face your deficiencies and
acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you
patience, sweetness, insight.
- Security is mostly
a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring
adventure or nothing.
- Have you ever been at sea in a
dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in
and thegreat ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore
with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for
something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only
I was withoutcompass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near
the harbor was. ‘Light Give me light’ was the wordless cry of my soul,
and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.
- I look upon the whole world as my
fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.
- College isn’t the place to go for
ideas.
- Science may have found a cure for
most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them
all–the apathyof human beings.
- There is plenty of courage among
us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
- The highest result of education
is tolerance.
- One’s life story cannot be told
with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in
states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears not in months
and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by
feelings, not by dates.
- Hope sees the invisible, feels
the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Confucius Quotes
- What the superior man seeks is in
himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
- It does not matter how slowly you
go so long as you do not stop.
- The superior man is modest in
his speech but exceeds in his actions.
- It is only the benevolent man who
is capable of liking or disliking other men.
- To go beyond is as wrong as
to fall short.
- When we see men of worth, we
should think of equaling them when we see men of a contrary character,
we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
- A youth is to be regarded
with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our
present?
- When a man’s knowledge is
sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to
hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
- Everything has its beauty but not
everyone sees it.
- Fine words and an
insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
- I have not seen a person who
loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who
loved virtue wouldesteem nothing above it.
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
- There are two levers for moving
men interest and fear.
- If you wish to be a sucess in the
world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
- It requires morecourage to suffer
than to die.
- Religion is excellent stuff
for keepingcommonpeoplequiet.
- Death is nothing, but to
live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
- Few really believe. The most only
believe that they believe or evenmake believe.
- The wordimpossible is not in
my dictionary.
- The best way to keep one’s word
is not to give it.
- In politicsstupidity is not
a handicap.
- History is a set of lies agreed
upon.
- [Medicine is] a collection of
uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively,
are more fatal than useful to mankind.
Marilyn Monroe Quotes
- Ever notice that what the hell is always the
right decision?
- I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve
never been on time.
- Ever notice that ‘what the hell’
is always the right decision
- “I knew I belonged to the public
and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but
because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”
- The nicest thing for me is sleep,
then at least I can dream
- I want to grow old without
facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have
made.
- Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
- Sex is a part of nature. I go
along with nature.
- If I’m a star, then the people
made me a star.
- I’m very definitely a woman and I
enjoy it.
- I knew I belonged to the public
and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but
because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
Galileo Galilei Quotes
- You cannot teach a man anything. you can
only help him to find it for himself.
- I have never met a man so
ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
- Long experience has taught me
this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring
thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more
positively they attempt to argue concerning them, whileon the other hand
to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious
in passing judgement upon anything new.
- Mathematics is the language with
which God has written the universe.
- It has always seemed to
me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human
ability themeasure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when
one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how
small, that eve
- You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- All truths are easy to understand
once they are discovered the point is to discover them.
- All truths are easy to understand
once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- I do not feel obliged to believe
that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect
has intended us to forgo their use.
Sigmund Freud Quotes
- Just as a cautious businessman
avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would
probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from
one quarter alone.
- One is very crazy when in love.
- I have found little that is good
about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.
- Love and work are the
cornerstones of our humanness.
- We are certainly getting ahead if
I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the
promised landof psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from
afar.
- Religion is an attempt to
get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of
the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of
biological and psychological necessites.
- I have found little that is good
about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole,
are trash.
- What a distressing contrast there
is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the
feeble mentality of theaverage adult.
- When making a decision of minor
importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros
and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a
profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,
from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal
life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of
our nature.
- The first human who hurled
an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
- Religion is an illusion, and it
derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual
wishful impulses.
William Shakespeare
Quotes
- If rough be love with you, be rough with love.
- It is a kind of good deed to say
well; and yet words are not deeds.
- We burn daylight.
- Beware the ides of March.
- The peace of heaven is theirs
that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
- This bud of love, by summer’s
ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
- Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure
as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.
- Men have died from time to time,
and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
- And many strokes, though with a
little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
- I shall despair. There is no
creature loves me; And if I
die no soul will pity me:
And wherefore should they, since
that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?
- I wish you well and so I
take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again.
Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
- It is not the language of painters but
the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for
thethings themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling
for pictures.
- What would life be if we had no
courage to attempt anything
- For my part I know nothing with
any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
- Great things are done by a series
of small things brought together.
- Paintings have a life of their
own that derives from the painter’s soul.
- A good picture is equivalent to a
good deed.
- Keep your love of nature, for
that is the true way to understand art more and more.
- There may be a great fire in our
soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by
see only awisp of smoke.
- Our greatest glory consists not
in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
- If one is master of one thing and
understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into
andunderstanding of many things.
- Great things are not done by
impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Socrates Quotes
- When the debate is over, slander becomes
the tool of the loser.
- Think not those faithful who
praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy
faults.
- You are providing for your
disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your
means muchinformation unaided by instruction, they will appear to
possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part,
know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with,
as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise.
- Of all possessions wisdom alone
is immortal.
- Let him that would move the
world, first move himself.
- True knowledge exists in knowing
that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes
you the smartest of all.
- He who is not contented with what
he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
- To find yourself, think for
yourself.
- Thou shouldst eat to live; not
live to eat.
- I decided that it was not wisdom
that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or
inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all
their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- He is richest who is content with
the least.
Hippocrates Quotes
- Healing is a matter of time, but it is
sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
- There are in fact two things,
science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
- Prayer indeed is good, but while
calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
- “Opposites are cures for
opposites.
- Walking is man’s best medicine.
- Things that are holy are revealed
only to men who are holy.
- To really know is science; to
merely believe you know is ignorance.
- Idleness and lack of occupation
tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
- To do nothing is sometimes a good
remedy.
- There are in fact two things,
science and opinion the former-begets
knowledge, the latter ignorance.
- A wise man should consider that
health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own
thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quotes
- History will have to record that the
greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the
stridentclamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good
people.
- True compassion is more than
flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It
comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.
- Darkness cannot drive out
darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love
can do that.
- One who condones evil is just as
guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
- The ultimate measure of a man is
not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he
stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- All labor that uplifts humanity
has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with
painstakingexcellence.
- Take the first step in faith. You
don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
- Nothing in all the world is more
dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- If you will protest courageously,
and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are
written infuture generations, the historians will have to pause and say,
There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and
dignity into the veins of civilization.
- Nonviolence is the answer to the
crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind
to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and
violence. Mankind must evolve for allhuman conflict a method which
rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a
method islove.
- A man can’t ride your back unless
it’s bent.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Quotes
- I want to emphasize in the great concentration
which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much westill need
the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the
long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who
attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.
- The courage of life is often a
less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no
less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
- All this will not be finished in
the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand
days, nor in thelife of this administration, nor even perhaps in our
lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
- The human mind is our fundamental
resource.
- The goal of education is the
advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
- The credit belongs to the man who
is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and
blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends
himself in a worthy cause who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of
high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so
that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know
neither victory nor defeat.
- Let us resolve to be masters, not
the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving
way toblind suspicions and emotions.
- The freedom of the city is not
negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, What’s mine is mine
and what’s yours is negotiable.
- Let the word go forth from this
time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed
to a newgeneration of Americans born in this century, tempered by war,
disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
- If anyone is crazy enough to want
to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be
prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.
- A man may die, nations may rise
and fall, but an idea lives on.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
- The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- My father taught me to work; he
did not teach me to love it.
- Discourage litigation. Persuade
your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the
lawyerhas superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be
business enough.
- He can compress the most words
into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
- If I were two-faced, would I be
wearing this one?
- It often requires more courage to
dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
- If I were two-faced, would I be
wearing this one
- Let me not be understood as
saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for
the redressof which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say
no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they
exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they
continue in force, for the sake ofexample they should be religiously
observed.
- The best thing about the future
is that it comes one day at a time.
- I will prepare and some day my
chance will come.
- You cannot escape the
responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Golda Meir Quotes
- You cannot shake hands with a clenched
fist.
- As President Nixon says,
presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many
things thatnobody would have thought of doing.
- I must govern the clock, not be
governed by it.
- To be or not to be is not a
question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
- To be successful, a woman has to
be much better at her job than a man.
- Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem
just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not
60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
- We do not rejoice in victories.
We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries
bloom inIsrael.
- We only want that which is given
naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate,
not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
- The Egyptians could run to Egypt,
the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea,
and before we did that we might as well fight.
- Don’t be so humble – you are not
that great.
- What do you gain, Soviet Union,
from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace
for you to give up this battle (On suppression of freedom for Jews in
the USSR)
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- Sumber : http://saddamzikri.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/kata-kata-mutiara-dalam-bahasa-inggris-oleh-32-ilmuan-dunia-pujangga-dan-penyair-terkenal/
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