Top 590 World Quotes

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
Marshall McLuhan
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Pliny the Elder
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace.
Christie Brinkley
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven
If the world was ending, I think I would grab some Cinnamon Toast Crunch, a bunch of water, and I’d probably just… I’d probably go crazy.
Tyler, The Creator
It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
LaToya Jackson
Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.
Yuval Noah Harari
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
Malcolm Gladwell
Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.
George Sanders
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inabilit

The most merciful thing in the world… is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
Desmond Tutu
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
Ramana Maharshi
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
Georgia O’Keeffe
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana
It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.
Nikola Tesla
To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.
Frances Arnold
We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems.
Julia Butterfly Hill
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato
God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.
Bernie Siegel
Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Bob Marley
Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.
Myles Munroe
Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.
Bill Gates
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
Frederic Chopin
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
Bill Bryson
Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don’t see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.
Robin Chase
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
Karl Marx
Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world.
Jodelle Ferland
You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.
Art Buchwald
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Bertrand Russell
The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it’s kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
Iris Apfel
You change the world by being yourself.
Yoko Ono
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Marianne Williamson
Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.
Shari Arison
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
Miguel de Cervantes
Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
Leigh Hunt
There are some people who live in a dream world, and th

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Desiderius Erasmus
I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.
Joe Biden
Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
Jim Henson
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.
Snoop Dogg
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.
Leroy Hood
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
Karen Blixen
The best feeling in the world is a hard workout, a shower, and a protein shake.
Mirko Cro Cop
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
You don’t have to live up to anyone else’s standards, you don’t have to look like anyone else, you don’t have to compare yourself to anyone else. You being you is enough, and you putting your positivity and good vibes out into the world, once you get to that point absolutely everything will fall into place.
Lizzie Velasquez
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Albert Camus
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.
Ramana Maharshi
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.
Robert Baden-Powell
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
Muhammad Iqbal