World Quotes - Page 396

We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.

We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.

There are buoyant powers of healing at work in the world that do not depend on us, that we need not finance or keep functioning and that are not at our disposal.

There is no hurry. There is only God, and all is well with the world.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.

If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.

You ever laughed so hard nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute, no matter what they tried to do to you?

My vision is a world of accessible intuition.

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.

I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.

Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the changes without changing ourselves, coasting, as we have always coasted, on the historic wave of human development. What it will take to wake us up is a wave of equal size traveling in the opposite direction. That wave is already on its way.

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

If I suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see Hikaru Utada working as a helper at some inn in Atami.

I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in what pictures (of the world) look like.

We broke the world to make it whole.

There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,’ he said, ‘to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn’t yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.

Start looking around you... and all you see are people the world would be better off without.