False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
—Charles Darwin
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Time stays long enough for those who use it.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
—Blaise Pascal
O the grace and mercy of Christ which are still ready for me, a poor persevering sinner, who have so long trifled with the concerns of my soul’s salvation.
—William Wilberforce
Above all, may the love of Christ constrain me to live no longer to myself, but to him who died and rose again.
—William Wilberforce
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
—Cicero
I believe that a mighty resurgence of the Spirit’s power among us will open again wells of hymnody long forgotten. For song can never bring the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit does invariably bring song.
—AW Tozer
We pray earnestly, O God, that we may not be found among those with hardened hearts, no longer able to hear Thy voice.
—AW Tozer
I trust I shall ere long arrive safe at my journey’s end, where my toils shall cease.
—David Brainerd
As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
—David Brainerd
A truly gracious soul cannot long subsist without secret prayer. It is true – there is not always an equal freedom and delight, a like enlargement and comfort in those retirements, but yet he cannot be without them.
—John Flavel
Whatever our sin or trouble is, it should rather drive us to God than from God. Suppose it is true that you have sinned, that you are thus long and sadly deserted, yet it is a false inference that therefore you should be discouraged, as if there were no help for you in your God.
—John Flavel
The reason why many fail in the battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came.
—R. A. Torrey
I have found that the man who believes in the Bible always comes out ahead in the long run, and that the man who is too wise and too advanced to believe the Word of God come out behind, in the long run, every time.
—R. A. Torrey
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
—Henry David Thoreau
There’s no governmental system that can correct evil as long as people remain as they are now.
—Leo Tolstoy
If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.
—Sun Tzu
After a long conversation, try to remember all that was said and you’ll be astonished by how empty, unnecessary, and often bad it all was.
—Leo Tolstoy
The Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays. – C.S. Lewis
Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. – C.S. Lewis
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you simply talk to a person and look clearly into his eyes, you’ll feel that he’s related to you and that you’ve known him for a long time. Why? Because that which gives us life is the same in you and in him and in all people.
—Leo Tolstoy
As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind… Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?
—Nikolai Gogol
When I consider it is for JESUS CHRIST, who has called me by his free grace into his marvellous light, and has promised to be with us always, even unto the end of the world, a divine fire kindles in my heart, and I long to call the lingering battle on.
—George Whitefield
When I consider it is for JESUS CHRIST, who has called me by his free grace into his marvellous light, and has promised to be with us always, even unto the end of the world, a divine fire kindles in my heart, and I long to call the lingering battle on.
—George Whitefield
Things of this world are in so constant a flux that nothing remains long in the same state.
—John Locke
Purity of religion in the church cannot stand long with slavery admitted in the state.
—Jeremiah Burroughs