Citazioni casuali

Citazioni in
Ordinate per
Autore
Tema
Testo
2695 citazioni     Mostra come lista

A leader who keeps his ear to the ground allows his rear end to become a target.
 
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
 
A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.
 
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
 
Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
 
The important and the unimportant are the same only at the start.
 
As long as one is escaping from loneliness, there is no essential difference between the worship of God and addiction to alcohol. Socially, there may be a difference; but psychologically, the man who runs away from himself, from his own emptiness, whose escape is his search for God, is on the same level as the drunkard.
 
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
 
Theory is when we know everything but nothing works. Praxis is when everything works but we do not know why. We always end up by combining theory with praxis: nothing works and we do not know why.
 
A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.
 
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
 
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
 
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. And that is a good thing for any man
 
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
 
The first step to finding a solution is to admit that there is a problem.
 
He who has never hoped can never despair.
 
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
 
The map is not the territory … The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...
 
One study showed kids, ages five to thirteen, pairs of faces of candidates from obscure elections and asked them whom they’d prefer as captain on a hypothetical boat trip. And kids picked the winner 71 percent of the time.
 
We do not judge the people we love.
 
2695 citazioni     Mostra come lista