Famous Quotes

“There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated.”
―Friedrich Nietzsche

“I can truly say — and this in virtue of the whole structure of my thought — that I now feel more indissolubly bound to the hierarchical Church and to the Christ of the Gospel than ever before in my life. Never has Christ seemed to me more real, more personal or more immense.”
―Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Source/Notes:
Letter from Cape Town to Father General, Jean-Baptiste Janssens (12 October 1951)

“It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.”
―Marcel Proust

“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.”
―Marie Curie

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
―Confucius

“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
―Anne Frank

Source/Notes:
Anne Frank's diary (1954 edition)

“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.”
―Socrates

“Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”
―Epicurus

“I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.”
―Jim Morrison

“We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel.”
―Charles Dickens

“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.”
―George Sand

Source/Notes:
Letters of George Sand (2009 edition), Cosimo, Inc. - ISBN: 9781605206110

“Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.”
―Theodore Roosevelt

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“It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.”

— Jimi Hendrix

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