Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
The science of happiness lies in controlling our thought and getting thought from sources of healthy life. — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
When you do talk about yourself, or to yourself... try to picture you talking to your own daughter, or your younger sister.… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied,… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
If somebody says Kyrie Irving wants the Boston Celtics to win the championship without him, they're flat-out lying to you. — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity.… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong.… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
Honesty . . . is the foundation upon which relationships and many societies are built. Without it . . . there can… — Janny Scott Copy Share Image
Building a practice of gratitude is the best way I know to create an optimistic approach to life. Start each day by… — Silken Laumann Copy Share Image
[D]ecade after decade, through taxes and regulations, governments at all levels took ever-increasing control over people's lives, wealth, and property. The control… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I saw a garden full of flowers which was so beautiful and fragrant. I watched the night sky lying on the grass… — Vincent Gigante Copy Share Image
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
John Lennon brought his wife Cynthia, a nice blonde girl and she was horribly put out of sight and stayed home. I… — Harry Benson Copy Share Image
Most people don't want to work with liars. They'll work with a liar if the liar makes them money and gives them… — Sara Benincasa Copy Share Image
A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries. — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
It is in vain that we search for an essential difference between good and evil, for their constituents are the same. The… — Charles Hampden-Turner Copy Share Image
You will Love me and I will end up Lying to you that I LOVE YOU TOO — Junior Dè Rèál Testament Copy Share Image
I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Most people believe me when I lie. I've learned how to say the words just right. I have a trusting kind of… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image