Weitsichtig Quotes & Sayings

Noble be man, helpful and good! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired material, moral or intellectual excellence, honest labor faithfully, steadily and persistently pursued, is the best, if not the only, explanation of their success ... All human experience proves over and over again, that any success which comes through meanness, trickery, fraud and dishonour, is but emptiness and will only be a torment to its possessor. — Frederick Douglass

The difference between saints and the rest of us isn't that they have loving, pure beliefs and we don't; rather, they function solely from their essence, — Wayne W. Dyer

I asked the cardiologist why an electrocardiogram was called an EKG, instead of an ECG.
He said, "Nazis. Nazis invented the machine."
After he left, I found a napkin on my breakfast tray and wrote that down: EKG = Nazis. — Monica Drake

She felt anger rippling through his muscles and knew that she had stumbled upon an old, yet still raw, emotional scar. — Ruth Cardello

Have you noticed that if you leave the laundry in the hamper long enough, it's ready to wear again? — Elayne Boosler

Harvard has something that manages, I think, to provide a lot of options for students, but still fairly prescriptive about the kinds of subjects that the courses ought to cover. — Louis Menand

I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word. — Ernest Hemingway,

Wisdom lights up the world. Love lights up the universe. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Harvey sought for truth in Truth's own book- Creation - which by God himself was writ;And wisely thought 'twas fitNot to read comments only upon it,But on th' original itself to look.Methinks in Art's great circle others standLock'd up together hand in hand:Every one leads as he is led,The same bare path they tread,A dance like that of Fairies, a fantastic round,With neither change of motion nor of ground.Had Harvey to this road confined his wit,His noble circle of the blood had been untrodden yet. — William Harvey

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't. — Laurence J. Peter

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high. — Haruki Murakami

We have to be in a listening mode: it is about dialogue, about listening to what the others have to say, about cooperating in the best way possible. These are the values and principles that we put forward. — Pierre Vimont