An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Edward de Bono

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
Edward de Bono

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
Jules Renard

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
Jules Renard

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
Jules Renard

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Jose Marti

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Daniel Webster

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
Herman Melville

Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch Spinoza

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Baruch Spinoza

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Vladimir Nabokov

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
Herbert Spencer

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
Henry James

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau