Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chamfort

Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last

Michael Klim

People have been writing us off, people who don't have the knowledge or expertise.

Luigi Pirandello

Our whole knowledge of the world hangs on this very slender thread: the re-gu-la-ri-ty of our experiences

Maurice Cheeks

Players have a lot of knowledge. It would be silly of me to say if they suggest something that I wouldn't look at it.

Bernard Beckett

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Bertrand Russell

Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Bertrand Russell

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Bertrand Russell

History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.

Bertrand Russell

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

Bill Bryson

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

Alan Coren

The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.

Dominique de Villepin

Accusations are useless.

Aaron Copland

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

Warda Tahir

When together, an ocean. When separate, a useless drop.

Edward Abbey

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

Ben Horowitz

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

Aldo Leopold

At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.

Abu Bakr

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Robert Morgan

Part of the pleasure of being a writer is that you get to go to unexpected places. If a place sounds interesting, I like to go.

C. S. Lewis

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

C. S. Lewis

Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

Andre Agassi

I tell you what I do take pleasure in is accomplishing things that I question myself,

Ken Stevenson

I'm so used to having them there. It's a pleasure.

Jan Eliasson

I have a masochistic pleasure to put in 14-hour days.

Ronde Barber

He turned it on. It was a pleasure watching him.

Horace

He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

Elizabeth Bowen

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.