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Quotes about World


The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.

Sir Thomas Browne

In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

O world as God has made it! All is beauty.

Robert Browning

The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend.

Robert Burns

I have not loved the world, not the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

Francis Palgrave

Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.

Maltese Proverb

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy— and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

Robert Heinlein

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

George Bush

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Francis H. Bradley

The world is a living image of God.

Tommaso Campanella

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

Albert Einstein

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

George Eliot

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

Horace Traubel

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.

Dean Rusk

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

Immanuel Kant

One real world is enough.

George Santayana

The world gels better every day--then worse again in the evening.

Kin Hubbard

We can only change the world by changing men.

Charles Wells

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.

Finley Peter Dunne

There is but little in this world which can go wrong because everything is a blessing in disguise.

Kazi Shams

This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper.

T. S. Eliot

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Thomas Paine

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