Jules Verne Quote

Know not to revere human things too much.

Aeschylus

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Michel de Montaigne

• Self-discovery
• World

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

Andre Malraux

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

Oscar Wilde

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Mark Twain

• World

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

John Steinbeck

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

Hugh Grant

• Genius

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

Kate Beckinsale

I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.

Angelina Jolie

It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?

Bram Stoker

It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.

Annie Lennox

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Charles Dickens

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

Ernst Mach

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

• Dreams

How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it - that's the thing.

Isaac Mizrahi

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

Ernest Hemingway

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

Henry Moore

Man is the measure of all things.

Protagoras

God doesn't know things. He is things.

D. H. Lawrence

• God

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Thales

• Self-discovery
• Life