Welcome to the Quotable Success Collections!

Quotable Success, like BeMoreCreative.com, encourages thinking, working, and living more creatively. Creativity is "the power to connect the seemingly unconnected" (W. Plommer). To support this work, we earn a small affiliate commission. Please browse creatively!


Arthur Schomburg: The modern school...

Arthur Schomburg: The modern school...

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of...

More about this quote...

Gilbert Highet: The aim of...

Gilbert Highet: The aim of...

The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one...

More about this quote...

Addison Gayle, Jr: Speaking honestly is...

Addison Gayle, Jr: Speaking honestly is...

Speaking honestly is a fundamental principle of today's black artist. He has given up the futile practice of speaking...

More about this quote...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: If I take...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: If I take...

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

Source: On...

More about this quote...

bell hooks: The academy is...

bell hooks: The academy is...

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

More about this quote...

Stanislaw Lec: If a man...

Stanislaw Lec: If a man...

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?

Source:
--...

More about this quote...

Polly Adler: The only difference...

Polly Adler: The only difference...

The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's...

More about this quote...

George Chapman: We inherit nothing...

George Chapman: We inherit nothing...

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

Source: In...

More about this quote...

Titus Maccius Plautus: In everything the...

Titus Maccius Plautus: In everything the...

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

More about this quote...

Lenny Bruce: Miami Beach is...

Lenny Bruce: Miami Beach is...

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.

Source: In Saturday Review, by Barbara...

More about this quote...

Stanley Kubrick: The theme, what's...

Stanley Kubrick: The theme, what's...

The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Source:...

More about this quote...

David Cronenberg: Censors tend to...

David Cronenberg: Censors tend to...

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

More about this quote...

Henry Drummond: Therefore keep in...

Henry Drummond: Therefore keep in...

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and...

More about this quote...

Albert Einstein: Everything should be...

Albert Einstein: Everything should be...

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Source: Reader's...

More about this quote...

Thomas Henry Huxley: Mathematics may be...

Thomas Henry Huxley: Mathematics may be...

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness;...

More about this quote...

Barry Commoner: If you can...

Barry Commoner: If you can...

If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel you are looking the wrong way.

More about this quote...

Barry Commoner: Sooner or later,...

Barry Commoner: Sooner or later,...

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural...

More about this quote...

Pablo Picasso: Every act of...

Pablo Picasso: Every act of...

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Source: In A Whack On...

More about this quote...

Michelangelo: What spirit is...

Michelangelo: What spirit is...

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and...

More about this quote...

Harold S Geneen: When I come...

Harold S Geneen: When I come...

When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from...

More about this quote...

Page 153 of 2,002


(C)2026 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA