“'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.”
Lewis Carroll
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · AMAZING
Read 200 amazing quotes about wonder, the universe, nature and the miracles of everyday life from Shakespeare, Newton, Whitman, Emerson and more.
“'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.”
Lewis Carroll
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
Mark Twain
“The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.”
Oscar Wilde
“The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.”
G. K. Chesterton
“The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”
Victor Hugo
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
Galileo Galilei
“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
Isaac Newton
“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.”
Confucius
“I neither know nor think that I know.”
Socrates
“Nature never breaks her own laws.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Water is the driving force of all nature.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness, that their use depends.”
Lao Tzu
“The object of a fish-trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught the trap is forgotten.”
Chuang Tzu
“I have been thinking of the difference between water and the waves on it. Rising, water's still water, falling back, it is water.”
Kabir
“In one salutation to thee, my God, let all my senses spread out and touch this world at thy feet.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Thou art the sky and thou art the nest as well.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.”
The Bible (Job 37:14)
“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.”
The Bible (Genesis 1:31)
“Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.”
The Bible (Psalm 90:2)
“All things are implicated with one another, and the bond is holy.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Asia, Europe are corners of the universe: all the sea a drop in the universe.”
Marcus Aurelius
“If ever you have come upon a grove that is full of ancient trees, the loftiness of the forest and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade will prove to you the presence of deity.”
Seneca
“Too late loved I Thee, O Thou Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new!”
Saint Augustine