Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- Man is condemned to be free.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
- Justice is the greatest interest of man on earth.
- Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)
- The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial... he cannot go along with currents and trends.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.
- Sun-Tzu (~400 BC)
- Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
- Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
- Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.
- David Cronenberg, Rocketboom, 07-19-06
Can't find what you're looking for? Try browsing our list of quotations by subject..
|
![[info]](/icon_info.gif){kind=icon}
![[add]](/icon_plus.gif){kind=icon}
![[mail]](/icon_email.gif){kind=icon}
![[note]](/icon_note.gif){kind=icon}