Sayings and Quotes

A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

Music is esentially useless, as is life.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

Habit is stronger than reason.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

Art, like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots.