English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not..."

Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all.

Elizabeth Gilbert

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

The corruption of the good by the belief in their own infallible goodnes is the most bloody dangerous pitfall in the human spectrum. Once you have conquered all your sins, pride is the one which will conquer you. A man starts off deciding he is a good man because he makes good decisions. Next thing, he's convinced that whatever decision he makes must be good because he's a good man. Most of the wars in the world are caused by people who think they have god on their side. Always stick with... Helen Fielding
Socrates quote: "Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue" Socrates..."
Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue" Socrates in The Apology. Socrates
Albert Camus quote: "as if familiar paths traced in summer skies could lead as..."
...as if familiar paths traced in summer skies could lead as easily to prison as to the sleep of the innocent. Albert Camus
The struggle in Mr. Guppy’s breast and the numerous oscillations it occasioned him between his mother’s door and us were sufficiently conspicuous in the windy street (particularly as his hair wanted cutting) to make us hurry away. I did so with a lightened heart; but when we last looked back, Mr. Guppy was still oscillating in the same troubled state of mind. Charles Dickens
Aeschylus quote: "In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast..."
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house. Aeschylus
So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and training nature. But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality. Charlotte Bronte
We may remain more or less open-minded on the subject of the death penalty, indisposed to commit ourselves, so long as we have not seen a guillotine with our own eyes. Victor Hugo
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right again. Sojourner Truth
You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot. Al Jourgensen
Jodi Picoult quote: "A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to..."
A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod... Jodi Picoult
Bertolt Brecht quote: "Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's..."
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong. Bertolt Brecht
Joseph Conrad quote: "We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness"
We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness Joseph Conrad
Robert Frost quote: "Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any..."
Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning. Robert Frost
Ricky Skaggs quote: "That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to..."
That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts. Ricky Skaggs
It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality? A. J. Jacobs