Which Quotes

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.