« All Own Quotes · Carl Sagan's Page
Own Quotes by Carl Sagan
- Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems…
- We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species…
- Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
- 'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is…
- We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of…
- Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
- The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn…
- We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid…
- We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.
- If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?
- I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time ... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very…
- If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if…
- The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's…
- We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov