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"We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts." Henry Ward Beecher 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend." Ludwig van Beethoven 4.8400 average rating Rate this Quote
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." Brendan Francis Behan 4.9545 average rating Rate this Quote
"What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it." Alexander Graham Bell 4.9375 average rating Rate this Quote
"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree." Alexander Graham Bell 4.8182 average rating Rate this Quote
"Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!" Joachim du Bellay 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something." Saul Bellow 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared." David Ben-Gurion 3.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope." Walter Benjamin 4.5714 average rating Rate this Quote
"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is." Thomas Arnold Bennett 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential." Rusty Berkus 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one has not time to write down." (Louis) Hector Berlioz 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around." Georges Bernanos Rate this Quote
"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world." Leonard Bernstein 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"[It was] an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition-that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else." Leonard Bernstein Rate this Quote
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable." Leonard Bernstein 4.7576 average rating Rate this Quote
"In baseball, you don't know nothing." Lawrence Peter Berra 2.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours." Lawrence Peter Berra 4.8750 average rating Rate this Quote
"I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?" Lawrence Peter Berra 1.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." Lawrence Peter Berra 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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