Quotes about Serious

Saint

All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.

Faith - Flow - Inspiration - Man - Sacred - Scripture - Serious - Sound - Trouble - World

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be well received in female assemblies, must qualify himself by a total rejection of all that is serious, rational, or important; must consider argument or criticism as perpetually interdicted; and devote all his attention to trifles, and all his eloquence to compliment.

Accounting - Appearance - Compliment - Eloquence - Female - Man - Opinion - Rational - Reject - Science - Serious - Wellness

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Amartya Sen

Economist, Philosopher

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

Having - Jobs - Serious

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Pope John Paul II

Clergyman, Saint, Priest

When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really making a tyrannical decision with regard to the weakest and most defenseless of human beings?....While public authority can sometimes choose not to put a stop to something which were it prohibited would cause more serious harm, it can never presume to legitimize as a right of individuals even if they are the majority of the members of society an offense against other persons caused by the disregard of so fundamental a right as the right to life.

Authority - Certainty - Conditioning - Decision - Harm - Human - Individual - Majority - Offence - Parliament - Serious - Sometimes

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John Rawls

Actor, Educator, Philosopher

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

Conflict - Serious

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Toni Morrison

Athlete, Novelist, Novelist

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Art - Literature - Serious - Sociology - Teaching - Tolerance

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George Eliot

Critic, Author, Novelist

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

Belief - Misery - Serious

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Marcel Proust

Dramatist, Author, Novelist

As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious.

Disease - Madness - Protecting - Serious - Stupid

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Plato

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

No human thing is of serious importance.

Anxiety - Human - Serious - Worrying

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Oscar Wilde

Poet, Playwright

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Serious

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Athlete, Novelist, Novelist

For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament.

Ability - Despair - Gratefulness - Hopelessness - Pleasure - Sensitivity - Serious

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman, Orator, Lawyer, Philosopher

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

Age - Appropriation - Belief - Blessing - Business - Children - Enjoying - Existence - Fixing - Loss - Path - Quality - Seasons - Serious - Strength - Weakness - Youth

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Rajneesh

Guru

I want to be taken playfully, not seriously - not with a long British face, but with beautiful laughter. Your laughter, your playfulness is the recognition that you have understood me. Your seriousness shows that you have misunderstood me, you have missed it - because seriousness is nothing but sickness. It is another name of sadness; it is a shadow of death. And I am all for life. If it is needed for your laughter, your dance, even to reject me, then reject me - but don't reject the dance and the song and the life, because that is my teaching.

Laughing - Misunderstanding - Recognition - Reject - Sadness - Serious - Show - Sickness - Songs - Taking - Teaching - Wants

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Robert Kennedy

Actor, Politician, Former U.S. Senator

The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.

Achievement - Freedom - History - Judging - Life - Nothing - Pain - Serious - Struggle - Temptation

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Teresa of Avila

Saint

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

Earth - Heavens - Serious - Suffering

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

No man can be merry unless he is serious.

Man - Serious

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Ray Bradbury

Actor, Writer, Writer

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

Celebration - Fun - Joy - Serious - Writing

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Werner Heisenberg

Educator, Physicist, Physicist

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

Atheism - Joking - Religion - Serious

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Richard P. Feynman

Scientist, Physicist, Physicist

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

Computer - Disease - Playing - Serious - Trouble - Work

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H. L. Mencken

Journalist, Cultural Critic

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Man - Serious - Teaching - Vision

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