Categories Starting with “I”

“One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.”

— Victor Hugo

“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.”

— Buddha

“I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I'm generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we're providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we're doing so well on so many of these things. I think it's important to have gratitude for that.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

“As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.”

— Coco Chanel

“The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play.”

— Tom Stoppard

“Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”

— Plato

“As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.”

— Honoré de Balzac

“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.”

— René Descartes

“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”

— Karl Marx