c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Ideas  as distinguished from events  are never unprecedented.
— Hannah Arendt
What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
— Robert Altman
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
— Jules Renard
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Only the wise possess ideas  the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Big ideas are so hard to recognize  so fragile  so easy to kill. Don't forget that  all of you who don't have them.
— John Elliott
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
— Thomas Edison
The material universe exists only in the mind.
— Jonathan Edwards
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men  or they are no better than dreams.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
An idea  to be suggestive  must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.
— William James
It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.
— Wendell Phillips
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.
— George Bernard Shaw
A physician can sometimes bury the scythe of death  but he has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
— Hester Lynch Thrale
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
— Peter de Vries
More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk  beat his wife - and watch TV.
— Robert M. Hutchins
It is no rest to be idle.
— Paul Peel
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
— Jerome K. Jerome
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages  when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.
— Ralph Borsodi
Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place  but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.
— J. B. Priestley
Extreme busyness  whether at school  or college  kirk or market  is a symptom of deficient vitality  and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The hardest work is to go idle.
— Jewish proverb
Of all our faults  the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
— La Rochefoucauld
Idleness  like kisses  to be sweet must be stolen.
— Jerome K. Jerome
With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris into a bottle.
— French proverb
We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.
— La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest  without passion  without business  without entertainment  without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty  insufficient  dependent  ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom  gloom  sorrow  chagrin  resentment and despair.
— Blaise Pascal
He is idle that might be better employed.
— Thomas Fuller
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
— Thomas Carlyle
Even if a farmer intends to loaf  he gets up in time to get an early start.
— Edgar Watson Howe
Did nothing in particular  and did it very well.
— W. S. Gilbert
If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot  set him to do nothing.
— Blaise Pascal
How beautiful it is to do nothing  and then rest afterward.
— Spanish proverb
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing  and doing it assiduously.
— Thomas Haliburton
Idleness is the holiday of fools.
— Lord Chesterfield
He is not only idle who does nothing  but he is idle who might be better employed.
— Socrates
For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
— Isaac Watts
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
— Friedrich von Schiller
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
— James Thurber
If I cannot brag of knowing something  then I brag of not knowing it  at any rate  brag.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
— Cardinal de Retz
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
— John Lyly
There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.
— Frank Zappa
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.
— Josh Billings
There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.
— Goethe
When an idea is wanting  a word can always be found to take its place.
— Goethe
If ignorance is indeed bliss  it is a very low grade of the article.
— Tehyi Hsieh
Not ignorance  but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself  and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
— Ambrose Bierce
Ignorance is no excuse  it's the real thing.
— Irene Peter
The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom  but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's just not fair.
— Konrad Adenauer
Everybody is ignorant  only on different subjects.
— Will Rogers
A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself  stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet.
— Anonymous
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
— Cicero
all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
— e. e. cummings
The little I know  I owe to my ignorance.
— Sacha Guitry
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
— John Lyly
And here  poor fool  with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.
— Goethe
Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
— Amelia Barr
You can do one of two things  just shut up  which is something I don't find easy  or learn an awful lot very fast  which is what I tried to do.
— Jane Fonda
Ignorance is no excuse-it's the real thing.
— Irene Peter
My doctrine is this  that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop  and do nothing  we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
— Anna Sewell
Whenever two good people argue over principles  they are both right.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.
— Russell W. Davenport
The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
— Dorothea Brande
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
— Elizabeth Goudge
The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.
— Gene Brown
The young do not know enough to be prudent  and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it  generation after generation.
— Pearl S. Buck
Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.
— Baltasar Gracian
Aerodynamically  the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly  but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
— Mary Kay Ash
Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
— Anatole France
An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were.
— Henry S. Haskins
Once you start asking questions  innocence is gone.
— Mary Astor
God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing.
— Dr. J. A. Holmes
To some people  the impossible is impossible.
— Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.
— Sheila Ballantyne
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This ... is a precious gift.
— Paul Valery
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done  then they begin to hope it can be done  then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable  but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible  they begin to see it as possible.
— Cherie Carter-Scott
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
— Coco Chanel
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship  we will never feel the free wind blow.
— Sonia Johnson
Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.
— Baltasar Gracian
Painting is easy when you don't know how  but very difficult when you do.
— Edgar Degas
To measure up to all that is demanded of him  a man must overestimate his capacities.
— Johann von Goethe
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
— J. C. F. von Schiller
To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say  and to finish without knowing what you have written.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Today  if you are not confused  you are not thinking clearly.
— Irene Peter
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
— Wernher von Braun
I have always wanted to be somebody  but I see now I should have been more specific.
— Lily Tomlin
I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what actors do.
— Geraldine Page
In baseball  you don't know nothing.
— Yogi Berra
I know it was wonderful  but I don't know how I did it.
— Sir Laurence Olivier
What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.
— Bobby Murcer
People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.
— John Lennon
I don't know what humor is.
— Will Rogers
Unprovided with original learning  unformed in the habits of thinking  unskilled in the arts of composition  I resolved to write a book.
— Edward Gibbon
When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going  when he got there he didn't know where he was  and when he got back he didn't know where he had been.
— Anonymous
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
— Fred Allen
It is a sign of strength  not of weakness  to admit that you don't know all the answers.
— John P. Loughrane
Whatever people in general do not understand  they are always prepared to dislike  the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
— L. E. Landon
One learns by doing the thing  for though you think you know it  you have no certainty until you try.
— Sophocles
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
— Publilius Syrus
All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.
— Rita Mae Brown
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
— Daniel Boorstin
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
— Susan Sontag
The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do.
— John Holt
Nothing in this world can one imagine beforehand  not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
The work will teach you how to do it.
— Estonian proverb
Where there is an unknowable  there is a promise.
— Thornton Wilder
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.
— Cicero
Ignorance never settles a question.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Where ignorance is bliss  Tis folly to be wise.
— Thomas Gray
Magic lives in curves  not angles.
— Mason Cooley
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
— Arthur Koestler
As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish  I wish  he'd stay away.
— Hughes Mearns
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
— Arthur Miller
An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.
— Christoph Martin-Wieland
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament  and embrace it with passion  if we want to be happy.
— Cyril Connolly
Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.
— Field Marshall Lord Wavell
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition  oft got without merit  and lost without deserving.
— William Shakespeare
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
— George Santayana
Aspects are within us  and who seems most kingly is king.
— Thomas Hardy
Those who lose dreaming are lost.
— Australian Aboriginal proverb
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you  for it was the illusion they loved.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Ever let the Fancy roam  Pleasure never is at home.
— John Keats
Fools act on imagination without knowledge  pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
— Alfred North Whitehead
From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night  good Lord  deliver us!
— Anonymous
I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing  but if we are to give everything its due  twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
— Ned Rorem
It was a year when Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe  with the countries neat and different-coloured. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loose and turning a thousand miles an hour.
— Carson McCullers
Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em.
— Mary Webb
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
— Publilius Syrus
Were it not for imagination  a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
— Samuel Johnson
Imagination grows by exercise  and contrary to common belief  is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The imagination of a boy is healthy  and the mature imagination of a man is healthy  but there is a space of life between  in which the soul is in ferment  the character undecided  the way of life uncertain.
— John Keats
His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run  though not to soar.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
— Joseph Joubert
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
— Havelock Ellis
Imagination frames events unknown  In wild  fantastic shapes of hideous ruin  And what it fears  creates.
— Hannah More
Reason respects the differences  and imagination the similitudes of things.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.
— Marcel Proust
To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover  and a bee  and revery The revery alone will do  if bees are few.
— Emily Dickinson
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
— John Galsworthy
It is good to know the truth  but it is better to speak of palm trees.
— Arabic proverb
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
— Albert Einstein
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
— Joseph Joubert
The human race is governed by its imagination.
— Napoleon
Imagination disposes of everything  it creates beauty  justice  and happiness  which is everything in this world.
— Pascal
Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened  half indifferent  they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that has been performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
— Albert Einstein
We are  in truth  more than a half of what we are by imitation.
— Lord Chesterfield
When people are free to do as they please  they usually imitate each other.
— Eric Hoffer
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
— Samuel Johnson
There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
— Benjamin Franklin
Every man is a borrower and a mimic  life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not imitate  but are a model to others.
— Pericles
The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned.
— Japanese proverb
We love in others what we lack ourselves  and would be everything but what we are.
— R. H. Stoddard
Immature poets imitate: mature poets steal.
— Philip Massinger
Agesilaus  the Spartan king  was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale  but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.
— Plutarch
It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.
— Frederick the Great
He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set  on the contrary  he who imitates what is good always falls short.
— Francesco Guicciardini
A good imitation is the most perfect originality.
— Voltaire
What is human is immortal!
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
A good man never dies.
— Callimachus
I have been dying for twenty years  now I am going to live.
— James Drummond Burns
Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.
— William Ellery Channing
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was  and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
— Anonymous
Oh  may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.
— George Eliot
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
— Goethe
The nearer I approach the end  the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous  yet simple.
— Victor Hugo
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion  but nearly all religions come from that hope.
— Charles J. Ingersoll
I wish to believe in immortality - I wish to live with you forever.
— John Keats
No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.
— Cicero
There is no death! the stars go down to rise upon some fairer shore.
— John L. McCreery
For tho' from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far  I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.
— Lord Alfred Tennyson
Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.
— Leo Tolstoy
Take up the white man's burden -  Send forth the best ye breed -  Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need.
— Rudyard Kipling
The conquest of the earth  which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves  is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
— Joseph Conrad
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
— Aristophanes
You can't get blood out of a turnip.
— English proverb
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
— English proverb
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
— Samuel Johnson
Never let me hear that foolish word again.
— Mirabeau
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
— Napoleon
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
— Walter Scott
It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always  this occupation ought to last as long as life.
— Queen Christina
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it!
— Guiseppe Mazzini
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants  and to serve them one's self?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Voyager upon life's sea: -  To yourself be true  And whate'er your lot may be  Paddle your own canoe.
— Edward P. Philpots
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
— Arthur E. Morgan
Communists have committed great crimes  but at least they have not stood aside  like an established society  and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water  like Pilate.
— Graham Greene
Hate is not the opposite of love  apathy is.
— Rollo May
What makes life dreary is want of motive.
— George Eliot
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who  in time of great moral crisis  maintain their neutrality.
— Dante Alighieri
Once conform  once do what others do because they do it  and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
— Michel de Montaigne
Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair  but to he who does not concern us at all.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love  less blessed is hatred  but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other.
— Mark Rutherford
The only menace is inertia.
— St. John Perse
Tolerance is a tremendous virtue  but the immediate neighbours of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
— Sir James Goldsmith
The true opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Hate  bad as it is  at least treats the neighbour as a thou  whereas indifference turns the neighbour into an it  a thing. This is why we may say that there is actually one thing worse than evil itself and that is indifference to evil. In human relations the nadir of morality  the lowest point as far as Christian ethics is concerned  is manifest in the phrase  T couldn't care less.'
— Joseph Fletcher
If moderation is a fault  then indifference is a crime.
— G. C. Lichtenberg
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn  but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
— Bliss Carman
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every individual has a place to fill in the world  and is important in some respect  whether he chooses to be so or not.
— Alice Hawthorne
The worth of a state  in the long run  is the worth of the individuals composing it.
— John Stuart Mill
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do  do it with thy might.
— Anonymous
The more we do  the more we can do  the more busy we are  the more leisure we have.
— William Hazlitt
In this theater of man's life  it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
— Pythagoras
I am a part of all that I have met.
— Lord Alfred Tennyson
The humblest individual exerts some influence  either for good or evil  upon others.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
— Galatians
A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
— Ninon de L'Enclos
If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter  the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
— Pascal
Thou wert my guide  philosopher  and friend.
— Alexander Pope
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
— Edmund Burke
Brutes leave ingratitude to man.
— Walter Colton
This was the most unkindest cut of all  For when the noble Caesar saw him stab  Ingratitude  more strong than traitor's arm  Quite vanquish'd him  then burst his mighty heart.
— William Shakespeare
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness  the hideous ingratitude  of man.
— Napoleon
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
— Aesop
Recompense injury with justice  and recompense kindness with kindness.
— Confucius
If the other person injures you  you may forget the injury  but if you injure him you will always remember.
— Kahlil Gibran
In an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
— Machiavelli
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
— Alexander Smith
There is but one blasphemy  and that is injustice.
— Anonymous
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
— Plato
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing but that rather a tumult was made  he took water  and washed his hands before the multitude  saying "I am innocent of the blood of this just person: See to it." Then answered all the people  and said "His blood be on us  and on our children."
— Bible
The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves  but who think others are.
— Josh Billings
The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
— Albert Camus
Whoever blushes is already guilty  true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.
— Henry David Thoreau
As innocent as a new-laid egg.
— W. S. Gilbert
Had laws not been  we never had been blam'd  For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.
— William Davenant
Good is when I steal other people's wives and cattle  bad is when they steal mine.
— Hottentot proverb
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
— Sir William Blackstone
They that know no evil will suspect none.
— Ben Johnson
Innocence finds not near so much protection as guilt.
— La Rochefoucauld
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
— Aristotle
Mad as a March hare.
— James Orchard Halliwell
I teach that all men are mad.
— Horace
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups  parties  nations  and epochs it is the ru)e.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
That he is mad  'tis true  'tis true 'tis pity  And pity 'tis 'tis true.
— William Shakespeare
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
— Sophocles
Though this be madness  yet there is method in 't.
— William Shakespeare
No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.
— Cicero
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
— Anatole France
Inspiration and genius - one and the same.
— Victor Hugo
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
— Patti Smith
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The moment somebody says to me  "This is very risky " is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
— Kate Capshaw
Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries  and many would never try if they were not forced to.
— Basil W. Maturin
All progress is based upon a universal  innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.
— Samuel Butler
It is the spur of ignorance  the consciousness of not understanding  and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress.
— John Pierce
What you are must always displease you  if you would attain to that which you are not.
— Saint Augustine
If you're good to your staff when things are going well  they'll rally when times go bad.
— Mary Kay Ash
Praise out of season  or tactlessly bestowed  can freeze the heart as much as blame.
— Pearl S. Buck
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
— Marge Piercy
Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
— Angela Merici
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own  instead of someone else's.
— Billy Wilder
I feel there are two people inside of me-me and my intuition. If I go against her  she'll screw me every time  and if I follow her  we get along quite nicely.
— Kim Basinger
I give myself  sometimes  admirable advice  but I am incapable of taking it.
— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.
— Alfred North Whitehead
I'm the foe of moderation  the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle  "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."
— Tallulah Bankhead
Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.
— Flannery O'Connor
Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.
— Eva Peron
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
— Mary Caroline Richards
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct  and be whatever I must be-crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do.
— Katharine Butler Hathaway
Instinct is untaught ability.
— Alexander Bain
Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.
— Anne Wilson Schaef
Trust your gut.
— Barbara Walters
It is our business to go as we are impelled.
— D. H. Lawrence
Intuition ... appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
— Dr. Alexis Carrel
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve.
— Holmes
I go by instinct. ... I don't worry about experience.
— Barbra Streisand
Unconsciousness  spontaneity  instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance  you feel a loss of energy  loss of power  a sense of spiritual deadness.
— Shakti Gawain
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit  it is worse than a chance lost  it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
— William James
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.
— Katharine Butler Hathaway
Instinct is the nose of the mind.
— Madame de Girardin
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them  for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
— Sigmund Freud
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct  your life will be safe  expedient and thin.
— Katharine Butler Hathaway
Everyone was searching for a formula for survival... and the only formula that worked was no formula. Instinct ... that's all you had to go on.
— Carolyn Kenmore
I feel there are two people inside me-me and my intuition. If I go against her  she'll screw me every time  and if I follow her  we get along quite nicely.
— Kim Basinger
To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.
— George E. Woodberry
We each need to let our intuition guide us  and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
— Shakti Gawain
The struggle to learn to listen to and respect our own intuitive  inner promptings is the greatest challenge of all.
— Herb Goldberg
Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself  and you begin to follow your own instincts-only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied  and when you are  other people tend to be satisfied by what you do.
— Raquel Welch
If you do not express your own original ideas  if you do not listen to your own being  you will have betrayed yourself.
— Rollo May
Every human being has  like Socrates  an attendant spirit  and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do  it always cautions us what not to do.
— Lydia M. Child
Trust the instinct to the end  though you can render no reason.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth of a thing is the feel of it  not the think of it.
— Stanley Kubrick
Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.
— Saint Bartholomew
When I do things without any explanation  but just with spontaneity ... I can be sure that I am right.
— Federico Fellini
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment  of trusting your instincts  of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure.
— Richard Iannelli
I never believe facts  Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts  except figures.
— Sydney Smith
Trust your hunches. ... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do not confuse your hunches with wishful thinking. This is the road to disaster.
— Dr. Joyce Brothers
Facts are not truths  they are not conclusions  they are not even premisses  but in the nature and parts of premisses.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You cannot know what you cannot feel.
— Marya Mannes
We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason)  but upon that department that is deep and sure  which is instinct.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
— Ingmar Bergman
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
— John Sterling
Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct  obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.
— Emily Blackwell
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
— Oprah Winfrey
Impulse without reason is not enough  and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
— William James
The shrewd guess  the fertile hypothesis  the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.
— Jerome S. Bruner
A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry  documented deductions of the brain.
— Llewelyn Powers
Calculation never made a hero.
— John Henry Cardinal Newman
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
— James Ramsey Ullman
All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
— Blaise Pascal
Reason  ruling alone  is a force confining  and passion  unattended  is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
— Kahlil Gibran
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections  to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.
— Aldous Huxley
Systems die  instincts remain.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
I do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that life itself teaches us either patience with regard to them  or reveals to us possible solutions when our hearts are pressed close against duties and sorrows and experiences of all kinds.
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases  and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
— William James
Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.
— Latin proverb
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure  in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
— Denis Diderot
Ideas pull the trigger  but instinct loads the gun.
— Don Marquis
Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.
— George Santayana
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When a man begins to reason  he ceases to feel.
— French proverb
The mind can assert anything  and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body  on my intuitional consciousness  and when I get a response there  then I accept.
— D. H. Lawrence
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
— William Butler Yeats
The brain is not  and cannot be  the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
— Henri Bergson
Command by instinct is swifter  subtler  deeper  more accurate  more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.
— Michael Novak
No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.
— Vauvenargues
Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance  even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.
— Gerald Jampolsky
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
— Peter Cooper
It is wisdom to believe the heart.
— George Santayana
I follow my heart  for I can trust it.
— J. C. F. von Schiller
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are no rules. Just follow your heart.
— Robin Williams
Man becomes man only by his intelligence  but he is man only by his heart.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
It is the heart always that sees  before the head can see.
— Thomas Carlyle
Great thoughts always come from the heart.
— Vauvenargues
The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.
— Blaise Pascal
In making our decisions  we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts  which He also gave us.
— Fulton Oursler
Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart-it's all a man has.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
When love is not madness  it is not love.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
To live is like to love: all reason is against it  and all healthy instinct is for it.
— Samuel Butler
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful  he must obey his impulse.
— William James
What you intuitively desire  that is possible to you.
— D. H. Lawrence
Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person  the consistently reasonable man.
— Sir Arthur Eddington
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
— Cher
Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.
— Randolph Bourne
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice  love  passion.
— Nadia Boulanger
Passion and prejudice govern the world  only under the name of reason.
— John Wesley
The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Man is a passion which brings a will into play  which works an intelligence.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves  and fibers  and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself  and passion has its dreams.
— Oscar Wilde
We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
— Dr. Joyce Brothers
Inspiration does not come like a bolt  nor is it kinetic energy striving  but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time.
— Brenda Ueland
Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.
— Louis Pasteur
You must train your intuition-you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say  what to decide.
— Ingrid Bergman
You have first an instinct  then an opinion  then a knowledge  as the plant has root  bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end  though you can render no reason.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
— Anonymous
I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
— Nikki Giovanni
Instinct is a powerful form of natural energy  perhaps comparable in humans to electricity or even atomic energy in the mechanical world.
— Margaret A. Ribble
Cherish your emotions and never undervalue them.
— Robert Henri
But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better  and do they not develop us more  than if we kept systematically away from emotions?
— Vincent van Gogh
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses  which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it  in place of dust.
— Henry S. Haskins
We shall keep our horizon perfectly  absolutely  crystallinely open  ready every day for the scouring gales of impulse.
— John Mistletoe
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain  but simply points the way.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right  it's ended up not being right.
— Mario Cuomo
None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.
— Luigi Pirandello
I write out of instinct.
— Jerome Weidman
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
— William Hazlitt
Thou hast added insult to injury.
— Phaedrus
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
— Seneca
. . . 'twill turn your eyeballs black and blue.
— Brendan Behan
Injuries may be forgiven  but not forgotten.
— Aesop
It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
— Norman Douglas
Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.
— Margot Asquith
Macaulay is well for awhile  but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
— Thomas Carlyle
Be thou as chaste as ice  as pure as snow  thou shalt not escape calumny.
— William Shakespeare
A fly  Sir  may sting a stately horse and make him wince  but one is but an insect  and the other a horse still.
— Samuel Johnson
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
— Diogenes
To persevere in one's duty and be silent  is the best answer to calumny.
— George Washington
Woe unto you  when all men shall speak well of you.
— Bible
Young men soon give  and soon forget affronts  Old age is slow in both.
— Joseph Addison
As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny  there will be found reviewers to calumniate.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.
— Thomas Fuller
It takes your enemy and your friend  working together to hurt you to the heart  the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
— Mark Twain
Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression  it is not necessary that certain things should be true  but that they have been said.
— William Hazlitt
It is often better not to see an insult  than to avenge it.
— Seneca
Abuse a man unjustly  and you will make friends for him.
— Edgar Watson Howe
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
— Pauline Kael
Alive  ridiculous  and dead forgot?
— Alexander Pope
I'll give you an idea of what kind of a guy he was. St. Francis would have punched him in the mouth.
— Gene Ferret
He loves to eat - he puts mayonnaise on an aspirin.
— Joan Rivers
Apparently  he was not the sharpest quill on the porcupine  if you get my drift.
— Dave Barry
You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.
— Robin Williams
Cheap? If he was at the Last Supper  he would have asked for separate checks!
— Robert Orben
I've just learned about his illness  let's hope it's nothing trivial.
— Irvin S. Cobb
Why does our host always have tears in his eyes after sex? Due to the pepper spray.
— Ji'll Schall
I take him to McDonald's just to watch him eat and see the numbers change.
— Joan Rivers
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.
— Winston Churchill
After a year of therapy  my psychiatrist said to me  "Maybe life isn't for everyone."
— Larry Brown
The only way she could get a standing ovation would be if she sang "The Star-Spangled Banner."
— Elmer Pasta
His voice is to entertainment what the kazoo is to classical music.
— Anonymous
Some people can carry a tune  but they seem to stagger under the load.
— Richard Armour
Every word she writes is a lie  including and and the.
— Mary McCarthy
When she told her doctor that she always wanted to keep her weight exactly the same as her IQ  he gave her a lecture on anorexia.
— Wendy Morgan
If he can remember so many jokes With all the details that mold them  Why can't he recall  with equal skill  All the times he told them!
— Anonymous
I just thought you might like to know that I passed a kennel on the way to the game and your mother is all right.
— Ralph Houk
Here's a good rule of thumb Too clever  is dumb.
— Ogden Nash
We should take care not to make the intellect our god  it has  of course  powerful muscles  but no personality.
— Albert Einstein
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
— La Rochefoucauld
The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas  and all we've been producing is footnotes.
— Theodore H. White
Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. All zeal runs down. What replaces it? Intellectualism.
— Arthur R. M. Lower
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
— Spinoza
The highest intellects  like the tops of mountains  are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
— Albert Camus
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Think sideways!
— Edward de Bono
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
— Arthur Bloch
The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
— Pliny the Elder
My body has certainly wandered a good deal  but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
— Noel Coward
There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves  that they don't really believe what they say  that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.
— John Lukacs
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.
— William Butler Yeats
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability  which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
— Alfred N. Whitehead
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
— John Naisbitt
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.
— Christopher Morley
To the good listener half a word is enough.
— Spanish proverb
Time has a way of demonstrating . . . the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Intelligence must follow faith  never precede it  and never destroy it.
— Thomas a Kempis
Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person  therefore  is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil  that confidence should supersede fear  that love is superior to hate  that gentleness is better than cruelty  forbearance than intolerance  compassion than arrogance  and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.
— J. Martin Klotsche
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
— Lewis Mumford
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
— Simone Weil
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
— Marya Mannes
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
— George S. Patton
I not only use all the brains I have  but all I can borrow.
— Woodrow Wilson
Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often  in point of fact  useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence  a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either.
— Henry Kissinger
The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
— Wilson Mizner
I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
— Gerald Ford
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race  nor alienate so much property  as drunkenness.
— Sir Francis Bacon
Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
— Giuseppe Garibaldi
Of all calamities this is the greatest.
— Thomas Jefferson
The smaller the drink  the clearer the head.
— William Penn
O God  that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should  with joy  pleas-ance  revel  and applause  transform ourselves into beasts!
— William Shakespeare
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
— James Russell Lowell
It were better to be of no church  than to be bitter for any.
— William Penn
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
— Oscar Wilde
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
— Benjamin Franklin
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.
— Lucille Ball