Carl Sagan Quote

You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.

Voltaire

More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.

Nicolaus Copernicus

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Carl Sagan

This dark brightness that falls from the stars.

Pierre Corneille

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

William Shakespeare

I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Galileo Galilei

• Love
• Fear

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

Jean Racine

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Jean de La Fontaine

• Friendship

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

Stephen Hawking

I don't know if I was a star. I was certainly working a lot and that was strange because there were good things about it and things that were difficult.

Jennifer Connelly

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

Tony Curtis

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

Bram Stoker

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Henry David Thoreau

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

Paulo Coelho

• Life

Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students.

Milos Forman

When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things happen in their lives everyday; that the sun rise.

Paulo Coelho

• Life

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Herman Melville

• Meditation

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

George Lucas