Without Quotes

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, "Am I having fun?"