All Sayings

598 sayings found from 598 authors

All living beings are endowed with consciousness.

— Mahavira circa 5th-6th century BCE
Wisdom

I am not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet, but the Lord hath sent me unto thee.

— Abraham 1835
Biblical

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

— Nikola Tesla 1934
Wisdom

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

— Louis Pasteur 1854
Wisdom

The important thing is to know how to take a hint, to seize upon the suggestion, however small, and to extract its full value.

— Michael Faraday Mid 19th Century (approx.)
Wisdom

The only way of discovering the extent of the laws of nature is to try to transcend them.

— James Clerk Maxwell 1871
Educational

I have often tried to grasp that which I have found.

— Johannes Kepler 1598
Wisdom

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

— Philip K. Dick 1978
Wisdom

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

— Leonardo da Vinci c. 1500s
Inspirational

The telephone may be used to talk to the dead, and the dead may be used to talk to the living.

— Alexander Graham Bell c. 1910s
Life & Death

The only way to keep a secret between two is to kill one of them.

— Benjamin Franklin 1777
Wisdom

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

— Thomas Edison 1910
Wisdom

The chemical elements are the children of the sun.

— Dmitri Mendeleev Undated, often attributed in historical accounts
Wisdom

Not only is the Universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we *can* imagine.

— Werner Heisenberg Undated (likely post-1927)
Art & Creativity

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

— Saint Augustine Approx. 397
Wisdom

Beware the man of a single book.

— Thomas Aquinas Unknown
Wisdom

The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

— Sappho c. 7th-6th Century BCE
Nature & World

The birds have vanished into the sky and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

— Li Bai c. 701-762 CE
Nature & World

Saddened by the times I weep at the flowers tormented by the partings even the birds startle my heart.

— Du Fu c. 757 CE
Art & Creativity

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

— Murasaki Shikibu c. 1000-1012 CE
Inspirational
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