Favorite Quotations ~  World Ideas & Opinions

"God should not be judged on the basis of this world-- it is just one of his rough sketches." ~ Vincent Van Gogh Hope Is Contagious

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough. ~ Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is. ~ Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them. ~ Albert Einstein

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination, but the combination is locked up in the safe. ~ Peter De Vries

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot think this watch exists and has no Watchmaker. ~ Voltaire

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot. ~ Frank Moore Colby

The world is a spiritual kindergarten where bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks. ~ Edwin Arlington Robinson

The world is all about you: You can fence yourself in, but you can not forever fence it out. ~ J.R.R.Tolkien

The world is all outside, it has no inside. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? ~ Jack London, To Build a Fire

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