World Quotes - page 99

The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it. (Ramakrishna)
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going. View quote
Epictetus
What we call the intellectual world is divided into two types of people - those who worship the intellect and those who use it. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad! View quote
G. K. Chesterton
When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is) has these vices much more. The Church has been cruel; but the world has been much more cruel. The Church has plotted; but the world has plotted much more. The Church has been superstitious; but it has never been so superstitious as the world is when left to itself. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours? View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen. (G. K. Chesterton)
I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me. View quote
Samuel Johnson
There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation. View quote
Samuel Johnson
He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. View quote
David Attenborough
Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control. View quote
David Attenborough
Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies in the animal kingdom. In this series, we will travel the world to discover just how varied and how astonishing mammals are. View quote
David Attenborough
At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote, lonely and desolate continent. A place where it's possible to see the splendours and immensities of the natural world at its most dramatic and, what's more, witness them almost exactly as they were, long, long before human beings ever arrived on the surface of this planet. Long may it remain so. View quote
David Attenborough
The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity. (Alfred North Whitehead)
It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas. View quote
Fred Hoyle
After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is. View quote
Margaret Atwood
In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them. View quote
Alija Izetbegović
I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from? View quote
Elie Wiesel