Famous quotes by Writers

"Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"A person hears only what they understand"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to your own"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Time stays, we go"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"In the duel of sex, woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of readiness to die"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Coincidences are spiritual puns"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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