Bernard Quotes

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

We can see the child moving rather serenely in the uterus. The child senses aggression in its sanctuary. We see the child's mouth wide open in a silent scream.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

You know people. Most of them don’t hear anything. Those who hear - don’t listen. A few who listen - don’t understand. And those who could understand… they don’t care.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I'm not very patient myself. But I think that I've learned the most is be able to wait for something and get it when it's the right time.

The 100% American is 99% idiot.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

All things are possible to one who believes.

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Never follow the crowd.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.