Without Quotes

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Ability without honor is useless.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.