Quotes with world-view

Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 3096.

• The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

  Frederick the Great
  King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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• The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

  Michael Jackson
  American singer, dancer and composer (1958 - 2009)
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• The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

  G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

  Elizabeth Hardwick
  American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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• The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

  Alexander Pope
  English poet (1688 - 1744)
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• The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The greatest Part of Business of the World, is the Effect of not thinking.

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  Edward F. Halifax
  British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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• The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance.
  

  Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales
  Member of the British royal family, first wife of Prince Charles (1961 - 1997)
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• The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

  Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
  British princess
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• The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

  Harry Weinberger
   
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• The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.

  Bryant H. McGill
  American journalist and author (1969 - )
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• The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

  James Baldwin
  American writer (1924 - 1987)
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• The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.

  Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

  John Updike
  American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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• The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

  Brian Tracy
  Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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• The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.

  The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

  Agatha Christie
  British writer (1890 - 1976)
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• The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

  Albert Einstein
  German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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• The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

  Albert Einstein
  German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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• The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

  T. Shadwell
   
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-sufficient
• responsibility
• intolerance
• personified
• intolerant
• generation

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