Quotes by famous people

Quotes by famous people

"Every beauty which is seen here below by persons
of perception resemble more than anything else that celestial
source from which we all are come...."
-Michelangelo (1475-1564)

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."
-Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"Heaven will be inherited by every man
who has heaven in his soul."
-Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself
and know that everything in life has a purpose."
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926 -)

"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
-David Hume (1711-1776)

"The whole of life, from the moment you are born
to the moment you die, is a process of learning."
-Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

"The mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one."
-Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

"My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky."
-William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

"The clearest way into the universe
is through a forest wilderness."
-John Muir (1838-1914)

"What else is nature but God?"
-Seneca (4? B.C.-65 A.D.)

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
-The Apocrypha, 6:16

"They are alive and well somewhere,
the smallest sprout shows there is really no death..."
-George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

"The superior reasoning power...revealed in the
incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
-Saint Augustine (354-430)

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"In my Father's house are many mansions."
-The Bible, John 14:2

"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves
that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

"People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only
if there is light from within."
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926 -)