Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.
—William Shakespeare
I love mankind, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods!
—Plato
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Life without love, is no life at all.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
I love those who can smile in trouble.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Even the gods love jokes.
—Plato
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
—Plato
“Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.”
—Henry Ward Beecher
The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
—Plato
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
—Stephen Hawking
Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
—Plato
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
—Socrates
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
—Plato
Gratitude is a species of love, excited in us by some action of the person for whom we have it, and by which we believe that he has done some good to us, or at least that he has had the intention of doing so.
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
—Immanuel Kant
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
—Immanuel Kant
It’s not fun to live in the world,
If the heart has no one to love.
—Taras Shevchenko
Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.
—Charlie Chaplin
I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
—Charles Darwin
Love is only love when it’s a sacrifice.
—Leo Tolstoy
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
—Charles Dickens
Rest not till you enjoy the privilege of humanity—the knowledge and love of God.
—John Wesley
And if your love of God is in any wise decayed, so is also your love of your neighbour. You are then hurt in the very life and spirit of your religion! If you lose love, you lose all.
—John Wesley
O deeps unfathomed as the sea,
O heights that reach beyond the high,
O Love that lavished all on me,
I know Thee now, I know Thee nigh.
O Love that is not here or there,
But like Thine own eternity
Is here, is there, is everywhere,
I yield, I love, I worship Thee.
—Amy Carmichael
He who has felt that Face of beauty,
Which wakes the world’s great hymn,
For one unutterable moment
Bent in love o’er him,
In that look finds earth, heaven, men and angels
Grow nearer through Him.
—Amy Carmichael