Top 100 Quotes About the World (2025 Update)

1. “You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Wisdom Quotes, Universe Quotes, Quotes About Reality

2. “You are the universe experiencing itself.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Spiritual Growth Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Universe Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

3. “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Perspective Quotes, Spirituality Quotes, Health Quotes

4. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Mindset Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes, Travel Quotes

5. “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Science Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes, Important Quotes

6. “The earth laughs in flowers.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Feel Good Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

7. “The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”

— John Muir

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Appreciation Quotes, Nature Quotes, Travel Quotes

8. “I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.”

— Seneca

Also featured in: Philosophy Quotes

9. “We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Compassion Quotes, Powerful Quotes

10. “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

— John Muir

Also featured in: Nature Quotes, Adventure Quotes

11. “I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”

— Richard P. Feynman

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Science Quotes, Quotes About Reality

12. “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”

— Richard P. Feynman

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Curiosity Quotes

13. “Leave it better than you found it.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Values Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Caring Quotes

14. “We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.”

— Carl Sagan

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Science Quotes

15. “You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Short Inspirational Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

16. “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

— John Muir

Also featured in: Nature Quotes, Earth Day Quotes

17. “We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.”

— Carl Sagan

Also featured in: Universe Quotes, Moving Quotes, Space Quotes, Travel Quotes

18. “Beauty will save the world.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Aesthetic Quotes, Culture Quotes, Beauty Quotes

19. “We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Science Quotes, Important Quotes

20. “Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

21. “All I want to do is change the world.”

— W. Clement Stone

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Purpose Quotes, Graduation Quotes

22. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.”

— Melody Truong

Also featured in: Aesthetic Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Travel Quotes, Longing Quotes

23. “I am Cyrus, king of the world...”

— Cyrus the Great

Also featured in: Greatness Quotes, Epic Quotes, Past Quotes, History Quotes

24. “You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Universe Quotes, Quotes About Ocean

25. “He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Also featured in: Quotes About Trust

26. “Your voice can change the world.”

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Empowering Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Moving Quotes

27. “The earth is what we all have in common.”

— Wendell Berry

Also featured in: Positive Short Quotes, Nature Quotes, Earth Day Quotes

28. “Nothing is constant except change.”

— Heraclitus

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Clever Quotes

29. “Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”

— Noam Chomsky

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Future Quotes, Quotes About Believing, Progress Quotes

30. “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life”

— Michael Palin

Also featured in: Journey Quotes, Travel Quotes, Funny Inspirational Quotes, Holiday Quotes

31. “When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.”

— Alanis Obomsawin

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Environment Quotes, Nature Quotes

32. “Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Clever Quotes

33. “Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”

— Carl Sagan

Also featured in: Science Quotes, Environment Quotes, Earth Day Quotes

34. “To be a Baha’i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Also featured in: Positive Life Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Respect Quotes

35. “This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Humanism Quotes, Harmony Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Quotes About People

36. “The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”

— Carl Sagan

Also featured in: Deep Quotes, Science Quotes, Universe Quotes

37. “Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.”

— D.L. Moody

Also featured in: Sunday Morning Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Discipleship Quotes

38. “No one can do everything, but everyone can do something, and together we can change the world.”

— Ronald J. Sider

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Caring Quotes, Volunteer Quotes

39. “To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.”

— Bill Nye

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Environment Quotes, Helping Quotes

40. “Without geography you’re nowhere.”

— Jimmy Buffett

Also featured in: Witty Quotes, Travel Quotes

41. “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

— John Muir

Also featured in: Universe Quotes, Nature Quotes

42. “If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Purpose Quotes, Quotes About Giving, Moving Quotes

43. “Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world.”

— Eduardo Galeano

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Quotes About People

44. “In Africa there is a concept known as ‘ubuntu’ – the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if we are to accomplish anything in this world it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievement of others.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Helping Quotes

45. “We live in the best of all possible worlds.”

— Gottfried Leibniz

Also featured in: Optimism Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

46. “I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

Also featured in: Feel Good Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Good Morning Quotes

47. “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”

— William Butler Yeats

Also featured in: Magic Quotes

48. “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”

— Frederick Buechner

Also featured in: Fear Quotes

49. “When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.”

— Wangari Maathai

Also featured in: Friday Inspirational Quotes, Environment Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Peace Quotes

50. “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.”

— Anthony Bourdain

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Journey Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Travel Quotes