Christopher > Christopher's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 295

« previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 next »

like

#1

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

114357 likes

like

#2

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135483 likes

like

#3

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151322 likes

like

#4

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

64642 likes

like

#5

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

40996 likes

like

#6

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119046 likes

like

#7

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

42021 likes

like

#8

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51595 likes

like

#9

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

45297 likes

like

#10

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

68188 likes

like

#11

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

58024 likes

like

#12

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins

24403 likes

like

#13

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

34483 likes

like

#14

“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;
Who has left the world better than he found it,
Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
Whose life was an inspiration;
Whose memory a benediction.”
― Bessie Anderson Stanley, More Heart Throbs Volume Two in Prose and Verse Dear to the American People And by them contributed as a Supplement to the original $10,000 Prize Book HEART THROBS

tags: life, misattributed-to-emerson, success, widely-misattributed

18563 likes

like

#15

“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
― John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867

tags: duty, paraphrased, political, political-philosophy, us-history

579 likes

like

#16

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

8067 likes

like

#17

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”
― Claude Levi-Strauss

tags: questions, science

746 likes

like

#18

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
― Hippocrates

tags: ignorance, knowledge, opinion, science

345 likes

like

#19

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
― Galileo Galilei

tags: dissent, independent-thought, reasoning, science, scientific-method, truth-telling

381 likes

like

#20

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: inspirational, science

3952 likes

like

#21

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

tags: fear, life, science, understanding

2869 likes

like

#22

“We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

tags: ecology, intelligence, life, science, stewardship

136 likes

like

#23

“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”
― Edwin Hubble

tags: exploration, inquiry, science

170 likes

like

#24

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

tags: science, superstition

284 likes

like

#25

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

10540 likes

like

#26

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth

6764 likes

like

#27

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth

8182 likes

like

#28

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: truth

5549 likes

like

#29

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
― Jim MORRISON

tags: freedom, individuality, inspirational, mask, personality, revolution, truth

4887 likes

like

#30

“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, life, perception, truth

4666 likes

« previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 next »

All Quotes

Tags From Christopher’s Quotes

action
change
inspirational
misattributed-to-gandhi
philosophy
wish
attributed-no-source
books
simile
soul
humor
insanity
life
misattributed-ben-franklin
misattributed-mark-twain
misattributed-to-einstein
aliteracy
literacy
activism
apathy
hate
indifference
love
opposite
classic
wisdom
frost
glitter
gold
lost
poetry
roots
strength
strong
wander
wither
exercise
laziness
misattributed-to-hutchins
misattributed-to-emerson
success
widely-misattributed
duty
paraphrased
political
political-philosophy
us-history
astronomer
science
writer
questions
ignorance
knowledge
opinion
dissent
independent-thought
reasoning
scientific-method
truth-telling
fear
understanding
ecology
intelligence
stewardship
exploration
inquiry
superstition
fact
truth
belief
death
ideals
martyr
freedom
individuality
mask
personality
revolution
beatles
perception