Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
—Blaise Pascal
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
—Plato
Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.
—Julius Caesar
There is no genius without a touch of madness.
—Seneca
Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
—Seneca
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
—Friedrich Nietzsche
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
—Carl Jung
“I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”
—Stephenie Meyer
Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
—Thomas Aquinas
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
—Aristotle
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Life without love, is no life at all.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
—Plato
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
—Plato
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
—Stephen Hawking
Apply yourself both now and in the next life.
Without effort, you cannot be prosperous.
Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
—Plato
What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
—Socrates
Those who are confident without knowledge are not courageous, but mad.
—Socrates
No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.
It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
—Socrates
How many are the things I can do without!
—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
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
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
—Immanuel Kant
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
—Immanuel Kant
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
—Immanuel Kant
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
—Immanuel Kant
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
—Immanuel Kant
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
—Sun Tzu