Malcolm Massiah > Malcolm's Quotes

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.'

That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”
― Benjamin Disraeli, Tancred

“As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Ignorance never settles a question.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.”
― Disraeli

“Justice is truth in action.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Success is the child of audacity.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity. ”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Life is too short to be little.”
― Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby, or, The New Generation

“You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.”
― Benjamin Disraeli