True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
—Socrates
Give me matter and i will build a world out of it.
—Immanuel Kant
Conquer yourself rather than the world.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
—René Descartes
The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world … is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.
—Immanuel Kant
It’s not fun to live in the world,
If the heart has no one to love.
—Taras Shevchenko
All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.
—Aristotle
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
—Charlie Chaplin
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.
—Aristotle
Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.
—Charlie Chaplin
That’s the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
—Charlie Chaplin
Make yourself necessary to the world and mankind will give you bread.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
—Henry David Thoreau
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind than on the externals in the world.
—George Washington
He who has felt that Face of beauty,
Which wakes the world’s great hymn,
For one unutterable moment
Bent in love o’er him,
In that look finds earth, heaven, men and angels
Grow nearer through Him.
—Amy Carmichael
In spite of all opposition, from nature, from the world, from all the powers of darkness, still fight the good fight of faith, and lay hold on eternal life!
—John Wesley
Let us ask that the stillness in which only His lights can shine may be ever around us, the stillness of the calm of His presence. And oh, let us ask that in this dark world we may so shine that others may see to read His love in the face of our loving Jesus.
—Amy Carmichael
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
—Mark Twain
I pray to be enabled to observe a due medium between undue conformity with the world and excessive separation and peculiarity.
—William Wilberforce
The Church lives in a hostile world. The power of the Holy Spirit is, therefore, not optional but necessary. Without it the children of God simply cannot live the life of heaven on earth.
—AW Tozer
To restore the beauty of God’s world, God sent the Redeemer to put all things back to its creative purpose.
—AW Tozer
Thus a man is worth more than the whole world.
—Herman Bavinck
God’s rest only means he has stopped creating new things. He is now actively working to preserve the world he fashioned.
—Herman Bavinck
Christianity is no less than the real, supreme work of the Triune God, in which the Father reconciles his created but fallen world through the death of his Son and re-creates it through his Spirit into the kingdom of God.
—Herman Bavinck
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
—Cicero
All the works of God in nature and grace, in creation and re-creation, and in the world and history enable us to know something of the incomprehensible and lovely nature of God.
—Herman Bavinck
The Church’s mightiest influence is felt when she is different from the world in which she lives.
—AW Tozer
The world situation is such that nothing less than God can straighten it out;
Let us not fail the world & disappoint God by failing to pray
—AW Tozer
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
—Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
—Albert Einstein