Iris Murdoch Famous Quotes
We can only learn to love by loving.
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch Quotations
"Out of life's school of war What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself What is my truest intention Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it."
Oprah Winfrey
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices.
William James
"Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment."
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
"There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else."
Cullen Hightower
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Saint Jerome
"Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods--in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."
Albert Einstein
"Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision."
Penn Jillette
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams