Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Conscience
  • Follow

• It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Long
  • Women
  • Past

• True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • True
  • Man
  • Silence

• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Know

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• People do not lack strength; they lack will.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Will
  • Strength

• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
  • Push

• I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Doing

• A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Simple

• The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Play
  • Myself
  • I Can

• It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Laughter

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• I am about safety for the people and the planet.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Safety
  • Planet

• Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Golf

• We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Different
  • Black
  • Colors

• Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Life
  • Party
  • Street

• Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Picture
  • Attempts
  • Wrong Track

• If Democrats are not showing up in those [rural] places even if you're not gonna win right away but if you're not in there at least making an argument that, "Hey, you know what? It's the Democrats who are trying to raise your minimum wage."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Trying

• But you can't say no to a birthday present, so she took the little pony to her room, where it ate things it shouldn't have, and farted too much.

  

  Kate Beaton
  • Present
  • Birthday
  • Pony

• Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such a fate, For that is my conception of hell-fire.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Live
  • Die
  • Desire

• Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Choose