What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
—Socrates
How many are the things I can do without!
—Socrates
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant
It is enough that I can understand one thing, clearly and distinctly, without another in order to be certain that one thing is distinct from the other.
—René Descartes
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
—René Descartes
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
—Immanuel Kant
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
—René Descartes
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. It is not good enough to have good talent, the main thing is to apply it well
—René Descartes
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
—René Descartes
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
—René Descartes
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
—Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
—Charlie Chaplin
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
—Aristotle
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
—Aristotle
Simplicity is not a simple thing.
—Charlie Chaplin
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
—Charlie Chaplin
Help being a thing that regards want, is always excellent; but its coming in season puts a crown upon it.
—John Owen
‘Tis not a vain thing to praise him. We cannot spend time better for our souls. It doth good to the heart in that manner to be lifted up unto God.
—Jonathan Edwards
If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.
—Sun Tzu
At this hour, and from this hour, do his will: Fulfil his word, in this and in all things! I entreat you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, act up to the dignity of your calling!
—John Wesley
Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But, if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary in well doing!
—John Wesley
Our Lord has many ways of working. The only thing that can matter is to be obedient to what, so far as we know His will, is His word for us, and to keep to it till He directs otherwise.
—Amy Carmichael
Religion is an higher and deeper thing than any outward ordinance whatever.
—John Wesley
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
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
—Mark Twain
Some of us are like Peter, Silver and gold have I none. But we have other things: for example, books. Am I sharing my books and what I read in them? Am I sharing every joy I can?
—Amy Carmichael
It looked impossible. But we have not to look at things from a human point of view, so that did not matter, and we reckon on God who is at home in impossibilities.
—Amy Carmichael
O may my time, my fortune, my understanding, and all my talents be more diligently improved, but may the one thing needful be the grand concern with me, and let not my heart be overcharged with lusts of other things.
—William Wilberforce
O may I have my conversation in heaven and my affections set on things above, looking for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
—William Wilberforce