Best Quotes - page 7

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. (William Hazlitt)
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST. View quote
Frank Zappa
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. View quote
Dorothy Day
Clever men are good, but they are not the best. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The best way to fill time is to waste it. View quote
Marguerite Duras
The aims of life are the best defense against death. View quote
Primo Levi
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian. View quote
George F. Kennan
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been. View quote
George F. Kennan
A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information. View quote
Robert Aumann
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
If a man does his best, what else is there? View quote
George S. Patton
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. View quote
George S. Patton
We wanted the best, but it turned out like always. View quote
Viktor Chernomyrdin
Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names. View quote
Charles Barkley
You know it's gone to hell, when the best rapper out there is a white guy and the best golfer is a black guy. View quote
Charles Barkley
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. View quote
Steve Jobs
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. (Steve Jobs)
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. View quote
David Ogilvy
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. View quote
Paul Valéry
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. View quote
Paul Valéry
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. View quote
B. F. Skinner