Top 500 Kind Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.”

— Sydney J. Harris

302. “There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.”

— Edgar Degas

303. “I kind of like it when a lot of people die, and on the other hand I always wonder how many unused frequent-flier miles they had.”

— George Carlin

304. “It’s kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody’s looking at me.”

— Louis C.K.

305. “We must be holy without holiness. We must be whole, complete. That’s being holy. Any other kind of holiness is false, a snare, and a delusion.”

— Henry Miller

306. “Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

307. “Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule...”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

308. “What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?”

— Michel de Montaigne

309. “Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.”

— Criss Jami

310. “Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.”

— Jim Morrison

311. “Men are only as great as they are kind.”

— Elbert Hubbard

312. “I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don’t.”

— Will Estes

313. “When you make music, you’re in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.”

— Jared Leto

314. “There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

315. “To be a flamboyant failure, that’s better than being any kind of benign success.”

— Malcolm McLaren

316. “Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.”

— Emil Cioran

317. “When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”

— Haruki Murakami

318. “Marilyn Monroe seemed to have a kind of unconscious glow about her physical self that was innocent, like a child. When she posed nude, it was ‘Gee, I am kind of, you know, sort of dishy,’ like she enjoyed it without being egotistical.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

319. “There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.”

— Sri Aurobindo

320. “Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.”

— Arthur Koestler

321. “I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind...”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

322. “She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real man can do without her.”

— Marcus Garvey

323. “You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don’t die can’t live. What don’t live can’t change. What don’t change can’t learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.”

— Terry Pratchett

324. “Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

325. “If you don’t daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.”

— Robert Duvall

326. “In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.”

— Joseph Beuys

327. “Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.”

— William Butler Yeats

328. “Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.”

— Oscar Wilde

329. “Believe me, It would be better if we didn’t meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you’re still a child.”

— Anthony Horowitz

330. “Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.”

— B. H. Liddell Hart

331. “I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.”

— Robertson Davies

332. “A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.”

— Guy Finley

333. “Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.”

— James Hillman

334. “Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.”

— St. Jerome

335. “Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument...”

— C.G. Jung

336. “What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.”

— C.G. Jung

337. “If I don’t stay creative and if I don’t stay in the studio and keep writing and recording, I get kind of depressed. I can’t quite remember what I’m supposed to be doing with myself.”

— Kenny Loggins

338. “Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.”

— Saul D. Alinsky

339. “The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.”

— Donald Knuth

340. “I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.”

— David Mamet

341. “Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.”

— Novalis

342. “Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

343. “The key in mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you and how great you are and what you do, to statements about them, and how great they are and how they will produce more and profit more from ownership of your product or service.”

— Jeffrey Gitomer

344. “It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.”

— Albert Einstein

345. “If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.”

— Joyce Meyer

346. “Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat “what if?” questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.”

— Dave Barry

347. “I’m all-American. Sexy but not intimidating. Not the kind of woman who’s going to steal someone’s husband.”

— Cindy Crawford

348. “Performance art is about joy, about making something that’s so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can’t put into words.”

— Laurie Anderson

349. “What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.”

— Margaret Fuller

350. “My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.”

— Eric Clapton