A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
Jean Piaget

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Marc Chagall

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
Jose Marti

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
Nora Ephron

A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
Tecumseh

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Baltasar Gracian

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
Saadi

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.
Toni Morrison

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Mortimer Adler

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.
Christina Aguilera

Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.
John Walters

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Paul Cezanne

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
Thomas Huxley

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
Barbara Sher

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
Angela Davis