Categories Starting with “S”

“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The Moon stabilizes Earth's obliquity. Well, almost. The tilt actually varies between 22 and 24.5 degrees - and the variation is enough to induce such environmental inconveniences as the occasional ice age. Without the Moon, it might be much worse.”

— Seth Shostak

“If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sentimentality works by our seeing only what we want to see.”

— Howard Jacobson

“Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.”

— Jordan Peterson

“Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I have an attention span that's as long as it has to be.”

— Donald Trump

“Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?”

— Carl Jung

“Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.”

— Bruce Lee

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

— Lao Tzu

“From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.”

— Nelson Mandela

“When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.”

— Jordan Peterson

“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”

— Pythagoras

“Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.”

— Douglas Coupland

“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.”

— Michelangelo

“All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.”

— Plutarch

“The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.”

— Anton Chekhov

“Capitalism saved the world, and there is even a heretical theory now, moving up from the level of individuals to countries: countries that trade more and have more open economies are less likely to fight wars and less likely to have genocides.”

— Steven Pinker

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

— William Shakespeare

“Speech is the mirror of the soul.”

— Publilius Syrus

“The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.”

— Simone Weil

“If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.”

— Stephen Hawking

“I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them.”

— Tom Stoppard

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.”

— Francis Bacon

“The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.”

— Sun Tzu

“Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.”

— Bill Gates