Unknown Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

3,397 Famous Quotes by Unknown
“To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason. [Fr., L'abstenir pur jouir, c'est l'epicurisme de la raison.]”
Eating Quotes
“I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.”
Cooking Quotes
“It is bad to awaken a sleeping dog. [It., Il fait mal eveiller le chien qu dort.]”
Dogs Quotes
“We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.”
Mammals Quotes
“A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. [Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.]”
Sculpture Quotes
“My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me.”
Acting Quotes
“A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.”
Nonsense Quotes
“Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.] - credited to Sophie Arnould,”
Sorrow Quotes
“By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior.”
Revenge Quotes
“The church says that the Earth is flat, but I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church.”
Earth Quotes
“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”
Earth Quotes
“There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.”
Engineering Quotes
“I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.”
Research Quotes
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
Research Quotes
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
Research Quotes
“The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.”
Research Quotes
“We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are they are they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent being toward God.”
Research Quotes
“Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.”
Research Quotes
“After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.”
Scientists Quotes
“Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”
Scientists Quotes
“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
Universe Quotes
“The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men.”
Universe Quotes
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few personsnearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Universe Quotes
“Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
Compassion Quotes
“Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.”
Compassion Quotes
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