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To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin.
1615 | EN | QUOTE | Cardinal Bellarmine
I would have written less, but I didn't have enough time.
1656-12-04 | EN | QUOTE | Blaise Pascal
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
1770 | EN | QUOTE | Voltaire
Given for one instant an intelligence that could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated ... an intelligence sufficiently vast to submit these data to analysis ...
1814 | EN | QUOTE | Pierre-Simon De Laplace
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
1822 | EN | QUOTE | Stendhal
History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
1832 | EN | QUOTE | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity...
1859 | EN | QUOTE | Charles Darwin
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
1890 | EN | QUOTE | Arthur Conan Doyle
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
1906 | EN | QUOTE | George Santayana
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
1909 | EN | QUOTE | Jack London
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
1914 | EN | QUOTE | Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
1922 | EN | QUOTE | George Santayana
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
1922 | EN | QUOTE | Ludwig Wittgenstein
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are made for.
1928 | EN | QUOTE | John A. Shedd
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
1935 | EN | QUOTE | Upton Sinclair
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
1936 | EN | QUOTE | F. Scott Fitzgerald
You can't say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
1948 | EN | QUOTE | Richard P. Feynman
I don't even know what I was running for — I guess I just felt like it.
1951 | EN | QUOTE | Jerome D. Salinger
Vlastně ani nevím, proč jsem běhal. Nejspíš se mi chtělo.
1951 | CS | QUOTE | Jerome D. Salinger
Člověk nemá zestárnout, dokud nezmoudří.
1954 | CS | QUOTE | Jan Werich
Not all those who wander are lost.
1954 | EN | QUOTE | J. R. R. Tolkien
If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.
1956 | EN | QUOTE | C. S. Lewis
Kdyby někdo mohl běhat a neunavil se při tom, pochybuju, že by chtěl dělat něco jiného.
1956 | CS | QUOTE | C. S. Lewis
Pretty girls make graves.
1958 | EN | QUOTE | Jack Kerouac
If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere but doesn't greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction.
1962 | EN | QUOTE | John Steinbeck