Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Reason is negative and dialectical, because it resolves the determinations of the understanding into nothing.
—Georg Hegel
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture.
At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.
—Plato
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
—Plato
Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
—Socrates
The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it…..Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.
—Socrates
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
—Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
—Socrates
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their unison can knowledge arise.
—Immanuel Kant
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
—Immanuel Kant
How then is perfection to be sought?
Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
—Immanuel Kant
There is nothing more ancient than the truth
—René Descartes
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
—René Descartes
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
—Immanuel Kant
Nature does nothing uselessly.
—Aristotle
Imagination means nothing without doing.
—Charlie Chaplin
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
—Charlie Chaplin
The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We should not limit the Holy One, for nothing is too hard for Him.
—D. L. Moody
“We cannot go to heaven as worldly men; for there would be nothing there to gratify us.”
Nothing so surely proves true love as does steadfast faithfulness in holding a loved one to the highest.
—Amy Carmichael
Looking back, there is so much to grieve over. We can see nothing at all in ourselves to praise, but so much in our Savior. His patience has never failed. He has never given up hope for us. There is something very heartening in this.
—Amy Carmichael
O how quiet, as well as holy, would our lives be, had we learned that single lesson,—to be careful for nothing, but to do our duty, and leave all consequences to God!
—John Wesley
Do nothing on which you cannot pray for a blessing. Every action of a Christian that is good, is sanctified by the word and prayer. It becomes not a Christian to do anything so trivial, that he cannot pray over it.
—John Wesley
An hour at the foot of the Cross steadies the soul as nothing else can.
—Amy Carmichael
Nothing is impossible to him that believeth: You can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth you. Do valiantly; and stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free.
—John Wesley
Many of us want nothing radical or out of the ordinary, and we want God to accommodate us at our convenience. Thus we attach a rider to every prayer, making it impossible for God to answer it.
—AW Tozer
Life is nothing without friendship.
—Cicero