A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
—Oscar Wilde
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
—Albert Einstein
While everything in the Old Testament was in preparation for Christ, everything now stems from him. Christ is the turning point of time. The promise made to Abraham extends now out to all nations.
—Herman Bavinck
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.
—Stephen Hawking
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
—Nikolai Gogol
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
—Nikolai Gogol
You can be intelligent without ever having read a book, but if you believe everything that’s written in books, you can’t help but be a fool.
—Leo Tolstoy
If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
—Oscar Wilde
Everything will be difficult, if there’s no dream.
—Hryhorii Skovoroda
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.
If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.
Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day.
And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.
If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.
Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day.
And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If you understand that your central task in life is love, then when you interact with someone you won’t think about how he might be useful to you, but rather how you might be useful to him. Just do this and you’ll succeed in everything far more than if you worry about yourself.
—Leo Tolstoy
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
—Georg Hegel
I am not young enough to know everything.
—Oscar Wilde
Accept everything just the way it is.
—Miyamoto Musashi
You’ll never recognize God if you believe everything people tell you about God.
—Leo Tolstoy
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.
—Charles Dickens
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
—Stephen Hawking
Accept everything bad that happens to you the way a sick person takes medicine. Medicines are bitter & distasteful, but a sick person takes it happily & is glad it exists. In the same way, be glad when trials & afflictions are sent to you, knowing that they’re of use to your soul
—Leo Tolstoy
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
When the ancient Masters said, “If you want to be given everything, give everything up,” they weren’t using empty phrases.
—Laozi
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
—Søren Kierkegaard
After a long conversation, try to remember everything that was said and you’ll be astonished by how empty, unnecessary, and frequently bad it all was.
—Leo Tolstoy
There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.
—Miyamoto Musashi