Famous Quotes, Quotations, Aphorisms and Sentences

Famous Quotes

Inspirational Quotes & Sentences

A quotation, also called a quote, is a fragment of a human expression, most often written or oral, which has been inserted into another human expression. This latter type of quotation is almost always taken from literature, though speech transcripts, film dialogues, and song lyrics are also common and valid sources.



Quotes are sorted in alphabetical order by the author’s first name.

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I. F. Stone
If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.

Ian Fleming
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Ian Macleod
History is too serious to be left to historians.

Ian McKellen
I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

Ice T
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Iggy Pop
Nihilism is best done by professionals.

Igor Stravinsky
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather wi

Igor Stravinsky
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees

Igor Stravinsky
My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Ilya Prigogine
The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Kant
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacitie

Immanuel Kant
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Immanuel Kant
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Indian Proverb
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Indian Proverb
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indira Gandhi
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi
We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.


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