Quotes of View - somelinesforyou

“ Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories. ”

- John Wilmot

“ He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. ”

- Miss Piggy

“ Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. ”

- B. F. Harris

“ Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought — particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. ”

- Woody Allen

“ It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" — not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope. ”

- Paul Goodman

“ For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. ”

- Ivan Panin

“ I have no idea what White House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent. ”

- Richard Darman

“ Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ”

- Confucius

“ The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts. ”

- Charles Darwin

“ Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. ”

- Stephen Jay Gould

“ Opinions are made to be changed - or how is the truth to be got at. ”

- Lord Byron

“ That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ How empty is theory in presence of fact! ”

- Mark Twain

“ The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius. ”

- Puzant Kevork Thomajan

“ Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts. ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God. ”

- Bible

“ I take a simple view of living. It is, keep your eyes open and get on with it. ”

- Sir Lawrence Olivier

“ The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. ”

- Socrates

“ It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old. ”

- Mark Twain

“ A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ Pride in their port, defiance in their eye I see the Lords of human kind pass by. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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