World quotes
26.2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Browse quotes that often appear alongside world — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult."
"You aren't ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it--don't plan anything, just go out and do it."
"Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives."
"The world system is coming to the structural crisis"
"A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world."
"It's important to build a personal brand because it's the only thing you're going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you've got to be a good person. You can't hide anything, and more importantly, you've got to be out there at some level."
"It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world."
"That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible."
"The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality."
"The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college."
"Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know"
"It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian."
"The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it."
"The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women."
"If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world."
"Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life."
"No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi or a monk or a nun, but without God's grace you still can't make it."
"The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness."
"Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God's work, and not mine."
"If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?"
