24ilm Quotes & Sayings

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy. — Ellen Glasgow

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man? — Friedrich Nietzsche

The intelligent are candles,
the virtuous are torches,
the wise are lamps,
and the enlightened are stars. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way. — Ben Okri

If you truly understood the holiness of God, you would have a proper attitude about yourself. — Lynn Austin

We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age. — Barack Obama

I want to be untouchable and beautiful and completely dead inside. — Francesca Lia Block

But as his dad always told him, wish in one hand and crap in the other. See which fills up first. — L.T. Ryan

A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances. — Quintus Ennius

If you find yourself saying 'I can't do something', but you know it in your heart of hearts that if you do it, you're going to grow, you're going to be a better person, it's going to contribute to your family or to your kids or to something that matters, and you keep saying 'I can't do it,' there is no question - you must do it. You don't discuss it anymore. You just take immediate action ... You do what's necessary. — Tony Robbins

The Americans were very clever; they sent rockets into space and invented machines which could think more quickly than any human being alive, but all this cleverness could also make them blind. They did not understand other people. They thought that everyone looked at things in the same way as Americans did, but they were wrong. Science was only part of the truth. There were also many other things that made the world what it was, and the Americans often failed to notice these things, although they were there all the time, under their noses. — Alexander McCall Smith

Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past. — Ha-Joon Chang