Quotes, maxims and aphorisms - Buboquote.com

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

will

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

love

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Albert Einstein

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Science is nothing but perception.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Francis Bacon /

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body the two are ever united.

Wilhelm von Humboldt /

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

George Bernard Shaw

danger

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

theatre

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

war

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes of Sinope

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Honore de Balzac

heart

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

health

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

love

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

George Bernard Shaw

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

George Bernard Shaw

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Friedrich Schiller

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

Jean de La Fontaine

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Honore de Balzac

time

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Albert Einstein

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

oneself

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Albert Einstein

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

death

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

hope

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

wisdom

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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