The World of English

Wise quotes from the Ancients

Wise quotes from the Ancients, the best quotations and aphorisms from the old great Greek, Roman and oriental philosophers and thinkers who formed our culture. Educating the mind without educating the heart …

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
Soren Kierkegaard

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Stephen Hawking

The World of English, its language, its culture, its varieties, its future, and its infinite possibilities of communication in our small unique world.
Carl William Brown

As far as the development of human happiness is concerned I would say that egoism is the higher form of stupid ignorance that prevents it.
Carl William Brown