Quotes
Quotes about World
Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm But the harm does not interest them.
The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and he has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
The world isn't worse. It's just that the news coverage is so much better.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.
Technology...the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
