I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day–until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.
—Sigmund Freud
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice but that some things stay the same only by changing.
—Heraclitus
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
—Thomas Aquinas
Praise is the act of intelligent creatures and not the act of mere machines or things without life.
—Jonathan Edwards
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
—Henry David Thoreau
Don’t fear ignorance, don’t fear doubt, don’t fear studying, fear one thing: asserting that you know what you don’t.
—Leo Tolstoy
Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.
—Heraclitus
To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.
—Heraclitus
Little things comfort us because little things distress us.
—Blaise Pascal
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
—William Shakespeare
Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
—Blaise Pascal
“The Lord is a real God, infinitely more real than things, more real even than ourselves.”
We by our sin have exposed ourselves to wrath, to a vindictive justice; but God has done very great things that we might be saved from that wrath
—Jonathan Edwards
Put things in perspective: watch a quiet sunrise.
—Peter R. Rose
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence–and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.
—Nikolai Gogol
We’re inseparably united not only with all people, but with all living things.
—Leo Tolstoy
It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
A man would not for ten thousand worlds be willing to undergo that which Christ underwent for us in that one thing of desertion from God, were it attended with no more distress but what a mere creature might possibly emerge from under.
—John Owen
A man would not for ten thousand worlds be willing to undergo that which Christ underwent for us in that one thing of desertion from God, were it attended with no more distress but what a mere creature might possibly emerge from under.
—John Owen
Sin so hardens and dulls the soul that it appears unsupportive of the plainest reason and clearest light and unmoved by things of the greatest and most immediate concern.
—Jonathan Edwards
*The saints delight in Christ*; he is their joy, their crown, their rejoicing, their life, food, health, strength, desire, righteousness, salvation, blessedness: without him they have nothing; in him they shall find all things.
—John Owen
Do you believe in the Son of GOD? All thing are possible to him that believeth. If the devil therefore continues his assaults, resist him, stedfast in the faith.
—George Whitefield
If all wisdom be laid up in him, and by an interest in him only to be attained, – if all things beside him and without him that lay claim thereto are folly and vanity, – let them that would be wise learn where to repose their souls.
—John Owen
There are a lot of evil people around, and that’s because they have no friends. Communication with people – with mom, grandmother, a dog – is the best thing that happens to you in this life. Not counting shoes and bags, of course.
—Taras Shevchenko
The first and grand thing, is to get a true and lively faith in CHRIST JESUS, seeking for it by earnest prayer.
—George Whitefield
Try all things, hold fast that which is good.
—John Locke