Explore
Gaia Soulmates
The user Eric isn't around any more.
 Advertising keeps Gaia free! Interested in sponsoring us?

Quotes added by Farhad

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln : American statesman (16th President: 1861-65), assassinated following Civil War
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
 
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: adversity, character, men, power
Quote
Btn_send-quote-as-greeting

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never does.

English proverb
Source: English proverb
Contributed by: Farhad. More quotes added by Farhad from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: the mind, wisdom
Quote
Btn_send-quote-as-greeting

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

Albert Einstein : German-Swiss-American mathematical physicist, famous for his theories of relativity.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
 
Contributed by: Farhad. More quotes added by Farhad from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
Quote
Btn_send-quote-as-greeting

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero : Roman orator, statesman, philosopher & writer
Cicero (106 - 43 BC)
 
Contributed by: Farhad. More quotes added by Farhad from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: literature
Quote

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Napoléon Buonaparte (Napoléon I) : French statesman and soldier (Emperor: 1804-1815)
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
 
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: agreement, history
Quote
Btn_send-quote-as-greeting

If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Quran
Source: Quran
Contributed by: Farhad. More quotes added by Farhad from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: quran, islam, muhammad, sufism
Quote

When you label me, you negate me.

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard : Danish philosopher
Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
 
Contributed by: ange. More quotes added by ange from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: labels, names, words
Quote
Btn_send-quote-as-greeting