Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
—Immanuel Kant
Do nothing that is of no use.
—Miyamoto Musashi
She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist
—Jean-Paul Sartre
They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice… That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
You are — your life, and nothing else.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothing endures but change.
—Heraclitus
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
—Thomas Jefferson
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
—Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
—Thomas Jefferson
They probably think because I am so small and young, nothing of greatness and class can come out of me; but they shall soon find out.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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
Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
—Georg Hegel
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
—Charles Dickens
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
—Henry Ford
I undertook to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world, and to accustom myself to believe that nothing is entirely in our power except our own thoughts.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
—Oscar Wilde
To save sinners through believing, shall be found to be a far more admirable work than to create the world from nothing.
—John Owen
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing
—Socrates
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
—William Shakespeare
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
—Seneca
It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.
—Seneca
Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one’s irritation so long as one doesn’t make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.
—Seneca
An army is nothing more than a collection of disciplined murderers.
—Leo Tolstoy
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
—Socrates
He that does nothing is poorer than he that has nothing.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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