Browse Quotes

618 quotes in the collection

• Imagination is more important than knowledge

  Albert Einstein

• Gnothi seuton. [Know thyself.]

  Socrates

• I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you can see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

  Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

• Nobody cares if you can't dance. Just get up and dance.

  Dave Berry.

• We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather…

  Henry Beston

• Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing

  Helen Keller

• We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

• .oooO Oooo. ( ) ( ) \ ( ) / \ ) ( / Set your feet free and your mind will follow

  Anonymous

• Live as simply and as naturally and as close to the earth as possible, inhibiting only two aspects of your unlimited self: your capacity to reproduce and your desire for material things.

  D. G. Kozlovsky

• Your neighbors are too close if you can't pee in your yard

  Edward Abbey

• I like to think that I am sufficiently in tune with the natural world around me that I hear every owl that calls within hearing distance of my house, day or night. Pissing outdoors is essential to this awareness; the invention of indoor plumbing was…

  D. G. Kozlovsky

• I believe that a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And a pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of a wren, And the tree-toad is a chef-d'oeuvre for the highest, And the running blackberry would…

  Walt Whitman

• Have you ever loved the body of a woman? Have you ever loved the body of a man? Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times over the earth?

  Walt Whitman

• However innumerable sentient beings are, I vow to save them. However inexhaustible the defilements are, I vow to extinguish them. However immeasurable the dharmas are, I vow to master them. However incomparable enlightenment is, I vow to attain…

  Bodhisattva vows

• I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities

  Dr. Seuss

• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  Lao-Tzu

• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C Clark

• Alas, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable hobbits. I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

  Bilbo Baggins

• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

  Len Brown

• You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all.…

  Lord Byron.