420 quotes found
“You have to know you dont know before you can know.”
“Ill always be a student, because I think of music as never ending.”
“One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will conf...”
“Every winner is inclined to think he will be triumphant forever. Every loser tends to fear that he is going to be beaten forever. But both are wrong for the same reason: Everything changes except t...”
“Why has he taken this job?... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know of honour and dishonour anyway? For himself then. For his idea of the world, a world in which me...”
“He is not, he hopes, a sentimentalist. He tries not to sentimentalize the animals he kills, or to sentimentalize Bev Shaw. He avoids saying to her 'I don't know how you do it,' in order not to have...”
“It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.”
“The country inspector's face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of Holmes' investigation. At first he had shown some disposition to assert his own position, but now...”
“When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in the meantime, you should keep quiet, or at least speak only when what you say will advance the learning process.”
“We don't really know anything. Those who accept this are more likely to learn something.”
“Never step on caterpillars, as one day they'll become butterflies, and you'll never know when you'll need a ride on their wings of fortune.”
“Never step on caterpillars, as one day, they'll become butterflies and you'll never know when you'll need a ride on its wings of fortune.”
“I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to His Father's love that He had no ambition of His own. He w...”
“The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in life is a gift. The tenor of our lives becomes one of humble and joyful thanksgiving....”
“He has told you, O man, what is good; andwhat does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness,and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8”
“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.”
“Self-acceptance should not be confused with an over-vaulting aggrandisement of self over others. That individual's exaggerated positive view of self relies upon a comparison with others - they sust...”
“If you have to walk along a dark mountain path, dont you prefer to have a flashlight to shine on the path ahead? I would suggest that it is possible to have that flashlight in life all the time. Wh...”
“Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John.”
“There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know.”
