It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.
—Stephen Hawking
Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
—Georg Hegel
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
—Thomas Edison
Beauty will save the world
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, & the world around us.
—Socrates
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
—Nikolai Gogol
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
—Charles Dickens
The world exists for the education of each man
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
—Aldous Huxley
I undertook to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world, and to accustom myself to believe that nothing is entirely in our power except our own thoughts.
To save sinners through believing, shall be found to be a far more admirable work than to create the world from nothing.
—John Owen
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
—Oscar Wilde
This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
—Henry David Thoreau
If the soul flies to Jesus Christ, they may find rest in him, for he came into the world to destroy Satan, and to rescue souls out of his hands.
—Jonathan Edwards
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Stranger: There is a time when God guides the world in its course; and there is a time, on completing a cycle, when he lets go.
—Plato
Stranger: There is a time when God guides the world in its course; and there is a time, on completing a cycle, when he lets go (Statesman)
—Plato
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
—Plato
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
—Plato
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
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
—Plato
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
—Socrates
How much there is in the world I do not want.
—Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
—Socrates
If the whole world depends on today’s youth, I can’t see the world lasting another 100 years.
—Socrates