A Quote by Edward Thorndike

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Edward Thorndike

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Colors Crumble Empires Endure Fade Fall Temples Wise Wise Words Words

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Edward Thorndike
American - Psychologist
August 31, 1874 - August 9, 1949

If you can reach just 10 percent of the population, you can begin to reach a tipping point; that's where true social movements take place - it's a numbers game. And when you reach that number, the truth becomes obvious and empires of injustice crumble and fall.

Louie Psihoyos

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

Ezra Pound

Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.

Harlow Shapley

Bodies count, of course - they count more than we're willing to admit - but we don't fall in love with bodies, we fall in love with each other. We all know that, but the moment we go beyond a catalogue of surface qualities and appearances, words begin to fail us, to crumble apart in mystical confusions and cloudy, unsubstantial metaphors.

Paul Auster

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

Milan Kundera

History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had every dominated the earth. Inevitably, it would fall. Empires always did. But we were lucky, you said. We got to participate in the most fascinating social experiment ever attempted.

Lionel Shriver

If the foundation of faith is not embedded in our hearts, the power to endure will crumble.

Henry B. Eyring

It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their periods where they rule the world, and then they crumble.

Mickey Rourke

I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors are not colors that are laboratory tools which are isolated from all accidentals or impurities so that they have a specified identity or purity.

Mark Rothko

'Words, Words, Words' was very much its title. It's just words, words, words and trying to show that I can pack as much material into an hour as I possibly could word count-wise.

Bo Burnham

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

Hesiod

All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

Erin Morgenstern

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

Marisha Pessl

Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier it is to create a captivating picture on the canvas, and the more practice we give to using those many colors appropriately and uniquely, the more likely we will be to create a masterpiece of self expression.