The best Quotes by Charles Darwin

last words - April 19th 1882

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.

Alcohol Monkeys & Apes Hangover & Crapulence

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.

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

Music

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

Life Time

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.

Quotes about Charles Darwin

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.

John Shelby Spong

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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.

John Shelby Spong

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?

John Shelby Spong

Morality

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

John Shelby Spong

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.

John Shelby Spong

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

Karl May

Death

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

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

Death

Money can't buy life.

Bob Marley - last words - May 11th 1981

Last Words

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

Nicolas Chamfort - last words - April 13th 1794

Heart Last Words

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

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Friendship Blood

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.

Nick Hornby in High Fidelity

Friendship Family

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

Homer Simpson in The Simpsons - Season 8 Episode 18

Alcohol Toasts

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Alcohol Wine

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."

Despicable Me

Monkeys & Apes

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

King Charles III

Monkeys & Apes

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

Lemmy Kilmister

Alcohol Hangover & Crapulence

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.

Frank Sinatra

Hangover & Crapulence

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Music Sad Quotes

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

Bob Marley

Music

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.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Life Pain Hurting Falling down

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

Pat in Silver Linings

Life Breakup

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.

Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Pain Time

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

Michael Ende in Momo - und die grauen Herren

Time Daily Routine

Things never happen the same way twice.

C.S. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia

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

C.S. Lewis

Past Change

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

Carl Sagan

Stars

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

Carl Sagan

Imagination

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

Robert Oppenheimer

Optimism Pessimism

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Robert Oppenheimer

Nuclear Weapons

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

Stephen Hawking

Knowledge Intelligence

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Stephen Hawking

Intelligence Silence

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

Niels Bohr

Physics Atoms

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

Niels Bohr

Experience Failures & Mistakes

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

Marie Curie

Work Progress

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.

Marie Curie

Life Motivation

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

Alexander von Humboldt

Ideas

Nature has to be felt.

Alexander von Humboldt

Nature & Environment

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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