If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Quote by Desiderius Erasmus

Topics: Thinking Quotes

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery...

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery...

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do...

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do...

To know nothing is the happiest life.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who...

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who...

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Humility is truth.

Humility is truth.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only...

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only...

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I...

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I...

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures,...

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures,...

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear...

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear...

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

Fortune favors the audacious

Fortune favors the audacious

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to...

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to...

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even...

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even...

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.