Quotes - Bryce (Lexington, KY) Showing 1-30 of 415

#1

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
― Albert Einstein

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#2

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

31241 likes

#3

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

tags: principia, science

2215 likes

#4

“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”
― Charles Du Bos

tags: becoming

78 likes

#5

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

tags: music

4210 likes

#6

“Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.”
― Scott Adams, God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

38 likes

#8

“First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.”
― Steve Martin

tags: black-humor, gallows-humor, irreverent-humor

308 likes

#9

“Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.”
― Steve Martin

tags: french, humor

479 likes

#10

“Wonder is the seed of knowledge”
― Francis Bacon

tags: science

236 likes

#11

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

33849 likes

#12

“Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts?”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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#13

“Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?”
― George Carlin

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#14

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
― Aristotle

tags: truth

685 likes

#15

“The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”
― George Carlin

865 likes

#16

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

69679 likes

#17

“When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”
― Benjamin Franklin

130 likes

#18

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
― John Lennon

3475 likes

#19

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
― Anatole France

tags: animals, love, pets

1058 likes

#20

“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: inspirational-human-spirit

2635 likes

#21

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: love

9265 likes

#22

“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.”
― Albert Einstein

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#23

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
― Woody Allen

tags: life

1157 likes

#24

“I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.”
― Charles C. Finn

11 likes

#25

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

tags: art, dreams, inspiration, painting

4508 likes

#26

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: creativity

953 likes

#27

“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”
― Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I Love

tags: faith, god, inspirational, love

1912 likes

#28

“They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.”
― Eddie Izzard

tags: humor

406 likes

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