A collection of proverbs, sayings and quotes about the world.
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A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Helen RowlandAlthough September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
Stephen HawkingAn optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears that this is so.
(unknown author)And the world came together as the people stayed apart.
(unknown author)As day breaks, the glowworms say: 'We've lit up the world!'
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Mahatma GandhiBeing in touch with the natural world is crucial.
David AttenboroughBy exposing the absence of purpose in the laws governing the universe, science forces us to take responsibility for the welfare of ourselves, our species, and our planet.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Dimitri: If Atlas holds up the world, what holds up Atlas?
Tasso: Atlas stands on the back of a turtle.
Dimitri: But what does the turtle stand on?
Tasso: Another turtle.
Dimitri: And what does that turtle stand on?
Tasso: My dear Dimitri, it's turtles all the way down!
(unknown author)Tasso: Atlas stands on the back of a turtle.
Dimitri: But what does the turtle stand on?
Tasso: Another turtle.
Dimitri: And what does that turtle stand on?
Tasso: My dear Dimitri, it's turtles all the way down!
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson MandelaEverybody wants to change the world, and every change makes a mess of it.
MinkukelFor all their foolishness, modern societies have been getting smarter, and all things being equal, a smarter world is a less violent world.
Steven PinkerFor the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
Roger BaconGoodbye cruel world
I'm leaving you today
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye, all you people
There's nothing you can say
To make me change my mind
Goodbye
Pink FloydI'm leaving you today
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye, all you people
There's nothing you can say
To make me change my mind
Goodbye
Source: Lyrics: Goodbye Cruel World
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
Walter KerrHe who controls the remote, controls the world.
Julie GarwoodHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne FrankI am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Richard DawkinsI am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
Mary Anne RadmacherI had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
George WashingtonI just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
David AttenboroughI see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Louis ArmstrongThe bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Source: Lyrics: What a Wonderful World
I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
Louis ArmstrongI see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
Source: Lyrics: What a Wonderful World
I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
Louis ArmstrongSource: Lyrics: What a Wonderful World
Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.
Lauren MyracleIf everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.
Lewis CarrollSource: Alice in Wonderland
If you give a boy a hammer, the whole world becomes a nail.
(unknown author)In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mahatma GandhiIt takes all sorts to make a world.
It is good that not everybody is the same.Let him that would move the world first move himself.
SocratesLife on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.
Stephen HawkingLove me and the world is mine.
David ReedMusic is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
Louis ArmstrongNothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Our house is on fire. I am here to say, our house is on fire.
Greta ThunbergPeople must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
David AttenboroughPrimitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.
Stephen HawkingRiding bicycles will not only benefit the individual doing it, but the world at large.
Udo E. SimonisThe devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
George HerbertThe greatest problem in the world today is intolerance.
Diana SpencerThe human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.
Stephen HawkingThe limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig WittgensteinThe more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
Jane AustenSource: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
The older you get the more it seems the world belongs to other people.
Bill BrysonSource: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.
Raheel FarooqThe trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.
Mark TwainThe trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand RussellThe world cannot be understood without numbers. And it cannot be understood with numbers alone.
Hans RoslingSource: Factfulness
The world has changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost. For none now live who remember it.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: Movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
Saint Augustine