Philosophy Quotes

"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it."

- Laozi

"And when you hear the sound of the waterfall coming nearer and nearer, tidy up the boat, put on your best tie and hat, and smoke a cigar right up till the moment you go over. That’s a triumph."

- Ray Bradbury

"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress."

- Margaret Atwood

"You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it."

- W.C. Fields

"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend."

- Bruce Lee

"Without water, life would just be rock."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Waterfalls wouldn’t sound so melodious if there were no rocks in their way."

- Rishabh Gautam

"Mist to mist drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return."

- Kamand Kojouri

"Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time? That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future."

- Hermann Hesse

"The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories."

- Marilyn Johnson

"They say that people who live next to waterfalls don’t hear the water."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea."

- T. S. Eliot

"The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are imagined only that content us."

- Henry David Thoreau

"When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, ‘What is the sound of the waterfall?’ ‘Silence,’ he finally told me."

- Jack Gilbert

"We say that life is sweet, its satisfactions deep. All this we say, as we sleepwalk our time through years of days and nights. We let time cascade over us like a waterfall, believing it to be never-ending. Yet each day that touches us, and every man in the world is unique; irredeemable; over. And just another Monday."

- Josephine Hart

"No one ever steps into the same river twice."

- Heraclitus

"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters."

- Norman Maclean

"The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about - clouds, daffodils, waterfalls, what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in - these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks."

- Tom Stoppard

"After we are separated by birth from this oneness, as the water falling from the waterfall is separated by the wind and rocks, then we have feeling. You have difficulty because you have feeling. You attach to the feeling you have without knowing just how this kind of feeling is created."

- Shunryu Suzuki

"Life is naked. A nude body is the truest and noblest symbol of life. If I draw a mountain as a heap of human forms and paint a waterfall in the shape of tumbling human bodies, it is because I see in the mountain a heap of living things, and in the waterfall a precipitate current of life."

- Kahlil Gibran

"The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about — clouds, daffodils, waterfalls, what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in — these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks."

- Tom Stoppard

"We let time cascade over us like a waterfall, believing it to be never-ending. Yet each day that touches us, and every man in the world is unique; irredeemable; over. And just another Monday."

- Josephine Hart

"You are water I’m water we’re all water in different containers that’s why it’s so easy to meet someday we’ll evaporate together."

- Yoko Ono

"For an instant, silence, noisier than a waterfall."

- Salman Rushdie

"Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?"

- George Carlin

"THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE Before you examine the body of a patient, Be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, You will also come to know His body. Before you diagnose any sickness, Make sure there is no sickness in the mind or heart. For the emotions in a man’s moon or sun, Can point to the sickness in Any one of his other parts. Before you treat a man with a condition, Know that not all cures can heal all people. For the chemistry that works on one patient, May not work for the next, Because even medicine has its own Conditions. Before asserting a prognosis on any patient, Always be objective and never subjective. For telling a man that he will win the treasure of life, But then later discovering that he will lose, Will harm him more than by telling him That he may lose, But then he wins. THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE by Suzy Kassem"

- Suzy Kassem

"The words of truth are always paradoxical."

- Lao Tzu

"Life is like a waterfall. It is always moving and there is always an uneven flow to it."

"Like a river, life doesn't flow backwards."

"Life is like a waterfall—it is always moving, and there is always an uneven flow to it."

- Anonymous