Anonymous > Anonymous's Quotes

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive
But to be young was very heaven.”
― William Wordsworth, The Prelude

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

“No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.”
― Pythagoras

“Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!”
― pythagoras

“Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.”
― Pythagoras

“In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.”
― Pythagoras

“It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.”
― Pythagoras

“Ability and necessity dwell near each other.”
― Pythagoras

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“Life is nothing but one long string of decisions and consequences. You make your choices; you take your ride.”
― Craig Schaefer, The Loot

“God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.”
― Otto von Bismarck

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
― Oscar Wilde