Quotes for October 947 quotes · 37 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every October 9: the anniversary does not move.

• A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 14 votes · 130 reads

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• A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

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  Roy Lichtenstein

  PainterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.5 · 64 votes · 11 reads

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• America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.1 · 40 votes · 120 reads

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• America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.5 · 54 votes · 104 reads

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• As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.5 · 57 votes · 95 reads

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• At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

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  Clarence S. Darrow

  LawyerAmerican1857 · 19th century

  4.3 · 21 votes · 115 reads

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• At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.2 · 48 votes · 98 reads

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• But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.5 · 51 votes · 91 reads

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• Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.2 · 29 votes · 180 reads

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• Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts whi

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.6 · 31 votes · 183 reads

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• Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  5.0 · 27 votes · 48 reads

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• Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  4.7 · 64 votes · 113 reads

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• Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  4.8 · 41 votes · 191 reads

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• Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 44 votes · 47 reads

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• Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.1 · 22 votes · 173 reads

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• Governments are not always right.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  4.7 · 59 votes · 78 reads

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• I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.0 · 63 votes · 172 reads

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• If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.5 · 20 votes · 6 reads

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• In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  5.0 · 19 votes · 127 reads

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• Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  3.3 · 5 votes · 177 reads

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• It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 51 votes · 44 reads

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• It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  3.7 · 43 votes · 184 reads

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• It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  5.0 · 27 votes · 67 reads

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• Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.8 · 20 votes · 182 reads

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• Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 15 votes · 89 reads

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• Let the spirit of adventure set the tone.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 41 votes · 148 reads

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• Making a life comes before making a living.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 57 votes · 164 reads

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• More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

  

  Woodrow T. Wilson

  PoliticianAmerican1856 · 19th century

  3.7 · 14 votes · 87 reads

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• Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.9 · 38 votes · 178 reads

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• Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

  WriterBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.7 · 26 votes · 18 reads

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• The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 46 votes · 13 reads

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• The discipline of desire is the background of character.

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  3.1 · 55 votes · 112 reads

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• The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  5.0 · 15 votes · 141 reads

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• The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.7 · 6 votes · 91 reads

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• The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.3 · 33 votes · 102 reads

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• The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  4.9 · 7 votes · 54 reads

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• These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

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  Felix Mendelssohn

  MusicianGerman1809 · 19th century

  3.2 · 37 votes · 179 reads

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• To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.0 · 36 votes · 195 reads

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• Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.5 · 6 votes · 129 reads

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• We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.0 · 34 votes · 50 reads

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• We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.1 · 29 votes · 49 reads

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• Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  4.8 · 30 votes · 47 reads

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• Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.8 · 17 votes · 148 reads

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• Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 37 votes · 36 reads

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• Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  3.9 · 17 votes · 195 reads

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• Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

  

  Pericles

  PoliticianGreek-495 · 5th century BC

  4.6 · 50 votes · 167 reads

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