Food & Drink Sayings

350 sayings found from 350 authors

Our faith is faith in some one else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most true.

— William James 1896
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The greatest good is freedom from pleasure.

— Diogenes c. 350 BCE
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

— Erasmus Unknown
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Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

— Blaise Pascal 1669 (posthumous)
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The greater the man, the more he is the subject of calumny.

— Edmund Burke c. 1770s-1790s
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Stinginess is a virtue, if it saves a penny for a useful purpose; crime is a virtue when it prevents a greater crime.

— Jeremy Bentham c. 1780s-1820s
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The great danger that threatens the young nation is the intellectual laziness of its ruling class.

— Frantz Fanon 1961
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The past is not a package to be opened, but a living, breathing thing that changes with each new interpretation.

— Edward Said 1993
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Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.

— Jordan Peterson 2018
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The greatest danger is not that we will be controlled by machines, but that we will become machines.

— Yuval Noah Harari 2018
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The naming of the world, which is an act of creation and re-creation, is not possible if it is not associated with the transformation of the world.

— Paulo Freire 1968
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Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light... and let it breathe.

— Rumi 13th Century
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The little understanding cannot come up to the great understanding; the short span of life cannot come up to the long span of life.

— Zhuangzi c. 4th century BCE
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The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know. The difficulty is only that men will not seek it.

— Mencius c. 4th century BCE
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Learning continues until death and only then does it cease.

— Xunzi c. 3rd century BCE
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Sons are a mother's pride and joy, but also her greatest sorrow.

— Homer c. 8th century BCE
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O human race, born for flight to heaven, why do you fall for a breath of wind?

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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The highest wisdom has but one science, the science of the whole, the science of understanding God, the understanding of creation and destiny.

— Leo Tolstoy 1869
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Man has an innate craving for freedom, but at the same time he has a greater craving for happiness.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky Mid-Late 19th Century
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The whole world is a great big satisfying thing.

— Charles Dickens 1865
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