The best Quotes by Charles Darwin

I am not the least afraid to die.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

A monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.

I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet Earth revolves, is a middle sized star in a galaxy called the Milky Way that has over a hundred billion other suns or stars within it.

My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?

I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

I believe that God is very real. I believe that I live my life every day inside the reality of this God. I call this God by different words. I describe God as the source of life and the source of love and the ground of being.

There's no death for those who don't fear it.

Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age.

Money can't buy life.

Oh, friend, I am leaving this world that makes hearts break or turn to stone.

Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

Gru: "Mom, someday, I'm going to go to the moon!"
Gru's Mom: "I'm afraid you're too late, son. NASA isn't sending the monkeys anymore."

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

A kid once said to me, 'Do you get hangovers?' I said, 'To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.'

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.

But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

Things never happen the same way twice.

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different...

Every Star that you see in the Sky might be a sun to someone.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist knows it.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Ideas can only be useful when they come to life in many minds.

Nature has to be felt.

If you see German soldiers, don't panic. They are here to help.