There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true.
—Ernest Hemingway
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
—Charles Darwin
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
—Thomas Edison
Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.
—Seneca
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
—Charles Dickens
From the crooked timber of humanity, never was a straight thing made.
—Immanuel Kant
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
—Blaise Pascal
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
—Plato
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
—Stephen Hawking
The things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding.
—J. Gresham Machen
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
—Carl Jung
What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
—Pablo Picasso
The principal thing wherein praise in our behavior consists, and which is most acceptable to God, is a cheerful obedience.
—Jonathan Edwards
Freethinkers use their minds without prejudice and fear to understand things that clash with their own customs or beliefs. It’s rare but essential.
—Leo Tolstoy
The only thing that is constant is change.
—Heraclitus
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
—Carl Jung
All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle.
—Heraclitus
Innocence is indeed a glorious thing, only, on the other hand, it is very sad that it cannot well maintain itself, and is easily seduced.
—Immanuel Kant
When there is no desire, all things are at peace.
—Laozi
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me.
—Immanuel Kant
All good things are wild and free.
—Henry David Thoreau
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself.
Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was even made.
—Immanuel Kant
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
—Thomas Edison
Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.
—Charlie Chaplin
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer