Hermann Hesse Quotes

Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.

Hermann Hesse

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• At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Age
  • Young
  • Very

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Drummer
  • Set
  • Bedroom

• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
  • Winning
  • Look

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hope

• There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.

  

  Oleg Kulik
  • Work
  • Taken
  • Nothing

• I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Moral
  • Courage

• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • World
  • Different
  • Heaven

• Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Think
  • Choice
  • Old

• I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Done
  • Learn
  • Legacy

• By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • People
  • Job
  • Ideas

• I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Different
  • Want

• When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Me
  • Child

• I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Done
  • Career

• It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Good
  • Me
  • Reputation

• We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Life
  • Home
  • Texas

• I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Long
  • Live
  • City

• My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

  

  Prince William
  • Life
  • Caring
  • Thoughtful

• When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all the time, I would say making the Bond movie 'Die Another Day.' To be part of such an iconic franchise and to travel to exotic places - that was the most fun I ever had.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Time
  • Good
  • Movie

• Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

  

  Larry Wall

• One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.

  

  Jonathan Carroll
  • Good
  • Perspective

• Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • World
  • Men
  • Wisdom

• Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Wisdom
  • Beginning
  • Madness