Pansophic Quotes & Sayings

We have meet the enemy,and they are ours. — Oliver Hazard Perry

Nothing is as evanescent in history as the pansophic theories that flourish among the illuminati of all times under the bright sunlight of the latest scientific discoveries; and nothing can be more easily dismissed by later periods as mere speculation. — H. Richard Niebuhr

Those who follow are always behind. — A. Y. Jackson

Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment ... instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

So do you have a kilt?" Megan asked him. When I glared at her, she said, "What? He only said you couldn't ask." She looked at him. "So do you?"
Straightening up, Zachary rubbed the back of his neck and smirked. "I might, I might."
God, he was gorgeous. And Scottish. But maybe kind of an ass. — Jeri Smith-Ready

I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes. — Richard Krajicek

I really want to work with Tom Hardy. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are also on my list. Those are my top three actors. As far as actresses go, Kate Beckinsale, because she's so smokin' hot. — Ryan Guzman

There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you. — Patricia Wentworth

I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also, I was, and remain, fascinated by the idea of an audience as a community of people who gather willingly to bear witness. — August Wilson

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good. — Sandra Tsing Loh

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. — Lillian Hellman

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary. — Tom Robbins

You watch Bono in a room - and we're talking about a room of thousands swarming around him - he'll take every single person and make that moment about them. You can pat him on the back or pull his arm, he's not looking away from the person he's talking to. — George Stroumboulopoulos

German can take a lot more pathos than English can. When you say "pathetic" in English it's a disparaging term, but when you say "pathetisch" in German it's just a description, not necessarily negative. That says a lot already. — Daniel Kehlmann

With great power ... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later. — Rick Riordan

The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it
even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them. — Elizabeth Gilbert