Recommended quotes

„There is no index of character so sure as the voice.“

— Benjamin Disraeli British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister 1804 - 1881

Bk. II, Ch. 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

„The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.“

— Benjamin Disraeli British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister 1804 - 1881

Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, "Quotation".
Misattributed, Isaac D'Israeli
Variant: The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Wisdom, Age

„I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.“

— Benjamin Disraeli British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister 1804 - 1881

The Wondrous Tale of Alroy, pt. 10, ch. 3.
Books

Hope, Hope

„Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted…“

— C.G. Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology 1875 - 1961

Life

„Man was created for the sole purpose of rejoicing in God and deriving pleasure from the splendor of His Presence; for this is true joy and the greatest pleasure that can be found.“

— Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, book Mesillat Yesharim

Mesillat Yesharim (1738), Chapter 1

God, Pleasure, Joy

„Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.“

— John of the Cross Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint 1542 - 1591

The Sayings of Light and Love

Love, Feeling, Suffering

„Kill me, or you are a murderer.“

— Franz Kafka author 1883 - 1924

„Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?“

— Annie Dillard American writer 1945

God, Hell

„We will our Rights in Learning's World maintain,
Wit's Empire, now, shall know a Female Reign.“

— Sarah Egerton English actress 1782 - 1847

Source: The Emulation http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/emulation (1703), Lines 32–33

World, Learning

„There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom.“

— Gavrilo Princip Bosnian assassin 1894 - 1918

Said to the prison warden on being moved to another prison; as quoted by Borivoje Jevtic (1914) http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand

Life, People, Freedom, Light

„Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.“

— Daniel Kahneman, book Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 19, "The illusion of understanding", page 201 (ISBN 9780141033570).

World, Sense

„The seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration, and not to the sayings of a human being whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and deficiency. Thus the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency.“

— Alhazen Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer 965 - 1039

Alhazen, quoted in “Muslim Journeys.” Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Nov. 2013. Also in Ibn al-Haytham Brief life of an Arab mathematician: died circa 1040 (September-October 2003) http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/09/ibn-al-haytham-html

Truth, Faith, Question, Nature

„A warrior doesn't need personal history. One day, he finds it is no longer necessary for him, and he drops it.“

— Carlos Castaneda, book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)

History, Personality