Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain. "

Related Quotes:

" People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone. "

" I was watching the Nina Simone documentary alone in my room, and I said out loud to myself, 'Why do we not know that this woman is beauty? She is beauty! Why did no one tell me this growing up? Why was her name not next to 'beauty' in the dictionary?' "

Tracee Ellis Ross

" There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it. "

" What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. "

" Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people. "

" A Sunday morning spent reading the paper together, maybe drinking some mimosas, alone, and talking until noon. That would be pretty amazing. Married couples with kids will understand. "

" I almost got kidnapped trying to find a taxi in the street. In Saudi Arabia, it's not normal for a woman to walk in the street alone, and I don't cover my face, so I am an open target. "

Manal al-Sharif

" We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. "

" Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own. "

" Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. "

Henry David Thoreau

" The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone. "

Working Together

" I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely. "

" I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone. "

" My heart reaches out to you missionaries. You simply cannot do it alone and do it well. You must have the help of others. That power to help lies within each of us. "

Gordon B. Hinckley

" India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. "

" Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. "

Rudyard Kipling

" Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better. "

" I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: 'What would happen if it were possible to increase a person's intelligence?' "

" I'm so accustomed to being alone. "

Leighton Meester

" It is impossible for Bangladesh alone to take action against the rising sea level, as it has been a cumulative effect of global emission in which Bangladesh does not have any role. It is the responsibility of global community to address this issue as urgently as possible. "

" Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. "

Arthur C. Clarke

" The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. "

Douglas Coupland

" Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them. "

" Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. "

" Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it. "

" If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely? "

" In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence. "

" I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong belief in that, then you won't feel alone in life and you will feel you can get through anything. "