Quotes
Quotes about Nothing
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
There is nothing certain except the unforeseen.
There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
Only one thing is certainâthat is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.
Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
