Art Quotes

The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.

Michael Talbot

It sure does, Ben, it definitely does... this is definite... it specifically clearly, unequivocally says that Russia and other countries will enter into war and God will destroy Russia through earthquakes, volcanoes...

Pat Robertson, when asked the question "Does the Bible specifically tell us what is going to happen in the future", "700 Club" D

Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.

Francis Beaumont

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.

James Baldwin

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!

Sonjay Anand

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.

Henry Ward Beeche

By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

John W. Gardne

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen not touched... but felt in the heart.

Hellen Kelle

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Judy Garland

Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.

Bo Jackson

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Thomas Tusse

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.

Robert Valett

In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank

Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

The earth has music for those who listen.

William Shakespeare

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut - Up hearts freely.

Charles Dickens

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

Learned Hand, jurist

And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.

Kelvin Throop

All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart, not the head.

Suzanne Chapin

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The Dhammapada

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

W. S. Gilbert

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Plato

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905)

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Marya Mannes, The Quotable Woman... on Love & Relationships

Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.

Sir Ronald A. Fishe

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Pablo Picasso

The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.

Manly P. Hall

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Cynthia Heimel

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

A Bartlett Giamatti

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

Werner Heisenberg, Philosophical Problems of Nuclear Science, New York: Fawcett 1966, p. 13

Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

John Knowles

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Thomas Wolfe

The Great Spirit, when He made earth, never intended that it should be made merchandise.

Native American