Misattributed Nietzsche Quotes & Sayings

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. — Ambrose Bierce

I am listless, I am a wanderer in my heart.
In the sunny haze of the languid hours, what vast vision of thine takes shape in the blue of the sky! — Rabindranath Tagore

A friend told me 'I guess you gotta go through a lot of nightmares, before you finally, you know, accomplish your dreams. — LeBron James

You're a dirty bastard"
"Are you complaining?"
"No — Moira Rogers

He was prepared to die for me, and from what it looked like, that time was now. — Nicole Gulla

For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

Live your best sacred-life.
It is only one-time in history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As Emerson wrote in "Experience," an essay that confronted the facile positivism of his age: "We have learned that we do not see directly, but mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these subject-lenses have a creative power; perhaps there are no objects." George Berkeley, for whom the campus and town were named, came to a similar conclusion: "The only things we perceive," he would say, "are our perceptions. — Robert Lanza

So efficient it doesn't waste power by making noise — Neal Stephenson

To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A thin layer of dust covered everything, and I doubted anyone had been in the room for decades. I have a vast weakness for secret things. — Patrick Rothfuss

Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett. — Ray Bradbury

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Rudyard Kipling

I love to perform. But I don't like the traveling. — Del Shannon

Throughout history, more has been lost to over-eager zealots than to mediocre slackers. A slacker leaves well enough alone. A zealot, a true patriot or company man, will keep pushing and pushing and pushing until the situation is screwed up beyond all recognition. If not properly motivated and constrained, a zealot is the most destructive force of all. — Patrick E. McLean

Doctor Jones, we're all vulnerable to vicious rumors. I seem to remember that in Honduras you were accused of being a grave robber rather than an archaeologist. Indy: Well, the newspapers greatly exaggerated the incident. — James Kahn