William Arthur Ward

Showing quotations 1 to 3 of 3 total A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. William Arthur WardFeeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. William Arthur WardWe can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. William Arthur Ward

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Arthur Balfour

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
Arthur Balfour

Enthusiasm moves the world.
Arthur Balfour

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
Arthur Balfour

I never forgive, but I always forget.
Arthur Balfour

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
Arthur Balfour

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
Arthur Balfour

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
Arthur Balfour

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
Arthur Balfour

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThere was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892You see, but you do not observe. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) A Scandal in Bohemia, 1892How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four, 1890 Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915 It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper BeechesGregory: "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
Holmes: "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
Gregory: "The dog did nothing in the night-time."
Holmes: "That was the curious incident." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Silver BlazeI never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four, A Scandal in Bohemia

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Arthur C. Clarke

Showing quotations 1 to 15 of 15 total CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. Arthur C. ClarkeIt has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. Arthur C. Clarke Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Arthur C. ClarkeThe best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. Arthur C. Clarke The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. ClarkeThere is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. Arthur C. ClarkeAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law) The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke, "Technology and the Future" (Clarke's second law)At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years. Arthur C. Clarke, 1983I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books. Arthur C. Clarke, Address to US Congress, 1975When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's first law A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody. Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars. Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space. Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space, 1951

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Arthur C. Clarke

Showing quotations 1 to 15 of 15 total CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. Arthur C. ClarkeIt has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. Arthur C. Clarke Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Arthur C. ClarkeThe best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. Arthur C. Clarke The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. ClarkeThere is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. Arthur C. ClarkeAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law) The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke, "Technology and the Future" (Clarke's second law)At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years. Arthur C. Clarke, 1983I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books. Arthur C. Clarke, Address to US Congress, 1975When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's first law A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody. Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars. Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space. Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space, 1951

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Arthur Miller

Showing quotations 1 to 5 of 5 total Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. Arthur MillerGlamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour [is] the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment. Arthur MillerThe jungle is dark but full of diamonds... Arthur Miller, Death of a SalesmanCleave to no faith when faith brings blood. Arthur Miller, The Crucible, act IIThe need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star. Arthur Miller, Tragedy and the Common Man

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Arthur Schopenhauer

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
Arthur Schopenhauer

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Arthur Schopenhauer

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
Arthur Schopenhauer

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
Arthur Schopenhauer

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
Arthur Schopenhauer

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Conan Doyle

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
Arthur Conan Doyle

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
Arthur Conan Doyle

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
Arthur Conan Doyle

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
Arthur Conan Doyle

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
Arthur Conan Doyle

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
Arthur Conan Doyle

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
Arthur Conan Doyle

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Arthur Conan Doyle

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Arthur Conan Doyle

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
Arthur Conan Doyle

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
Arthur Conan Doyle

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
Arthur Conan Doyle

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
Arthur Conan Doyle

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Arthur Conan Doyle

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Arthur Conan Doyle

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Showing quotations 1 to 11 of 11 total All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer Compassion is the basis of all morality. Arthur Schopenhauer Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. Arthur SchopenhauerEvery person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. Arthur SchopenhauerIf we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. Arthur SchopenhauerIf we weren't all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it. Arthur SchopenhauerNoise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought. Arthur SchopenhauerTalent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur SchopenhauerThe amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity. Arthur SchopenhauerThe memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. Arthur Schopenhauer We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Rimbaud

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
Arthur Rimbaud

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
Arthur Rimbaud

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
Arthur Rimbaud

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
Arthur Rimbaud

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
Arthur Rimbaud

I is another.
Arthur Rimbaud

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur Rimbaud

I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
Arthur Rimbaud

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Arthur Rimbaud

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
Arthur Rimbaud

Misfortune was my god.
Arthur Rimbaud

Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur Rimbaud

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Arthur Rimbaud

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
Arthur Rimbaud

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