World Quotes

There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase

Victor Hugo

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein

The Earth is the cradle of the mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky

Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum temperatures are too low, and its maximum temperatures too high. Its day is not long enough, and its night is too long. The disposition of its water and earth is distinctly unfortunate (the existence of the Mediterranean Sea in the place where we find it is perhaps the unhappiest accident in the whole firmament). These factors encourage depression, fear, war, and lack of vitality. They describe a planet, which is by no means perfectly devised for the nurturing or for the perpetuation of a higher intelligence.

James Thurber

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

Ben Elton

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

Lord Chesterfield

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

Samuel Johnson

When you deplore the conditions in the world, ask yourself, am I part of the problem or part of the solution?

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The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.

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It doesn't matter much what happens in this world, there's going to be somebody who'll tell you that he knew it would.

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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

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You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

Chief Seattle

Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparis

Samuel Johnson

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

Horace Traubel

You are very harsh.''I have seen the world.

Voltaire

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

Pythagoras