Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain
Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
Thomas
Jefferson
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will
Durant
A good student can make a mediocre teacher great.
Maya
Angelou
Good never occurs to you in person but always in action.
Gandhi
We choose our sorrows and joys long before we experience them.
Gibran
Who has not for the sake of his reputation
sacrificed himself? -
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)
Illness is in part what the world has done
to a victim, but in a larger
part it is what the victim has done with his world. -Karl Menninger,
psychiatrist (1893-1990)
No society that feeds its children on
tales of successful violence can
expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded. -Margaret
Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978)
True religion is the life we lead, not the
creed we profess. -Louis Nizer,
lawyer (1902-1994)
Literature encourages tolerance - bigots
and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied
with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.
-Northrop Frye, writer
(1912-1991)
I love
this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. -James
Baldwin, writer (1924-1987)
The most tyrannical of governments are
those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to
his thoughts. -Baruch Spinoza, philosopher (1632-1677)
Matters of religion should never be
matters of controversy. We neither
argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for
knowing so human a passion. -George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)
If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to
be moral. -Samuel P. Ginder, US navy captain
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action
according to our will within limits
Drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the
limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always
so when it violates the rights of the individual. -Thomas Jefferson, third
.
In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in
love with love. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld, writer (1613-1680)
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Doubt everything at least once, even the proposition that two times two
equals four. -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher
(1742-1799)
Tis with our judgments as our watches: none Go just alike, yet each
believes his own. -Alexander Pope, poet (1688-1744)
You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is
running inside you. -Rwandan Proverb
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. -George
Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. -Horace, poet and satirist
(65-8 BCE)
Love truth, but pardon error. -Voltaire, philosopher and writer (1694-1778)
What's done to children, they will do to society. -Karl A. Menninger,
psychiatrist (1893-1990)
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
-Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)
Be a
channels, not of trade, but of thought. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist
and author (1817-1862)
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
-Edgar Watson Howe, novelist and editor (1853-1937)
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the
world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do,how
we look, what we say, and how we say it. -Dale Carnegie, author and educator
(1888-1955)
If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it. -Earl Wilson, columnist
(1907-1987)
Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.-Robert
Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. -
Joseph Roux, priest and writer (1834-1886)
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and
Woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and
hungry and weary. -
Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its
recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a
need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of
information sources that might consume it. -Herbert Alexander Simon, economist,
Nobel laureate (1916-2001)
The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose
first, then you listen for the reverberation. -James Fenton, poet and professor
(1949
What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? -Theodore
Roethke, poet (1908-1963)
Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The
boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief, and spoke like a thief. But the
man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his
neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child.
-Lao-tzu, philosopher (6th century BCE)
Be like the bird, who halting in his flight / On limb too slight, / Feels it
give way beneath him, yet sings / Knowing he has wings. -Victor Hugo, writer
(1802-1885
There is a foolish corner in the
brain of the wisest man.
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power.
Abraham
Lincoln (1809-1865)
When we see a man of contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine
ourselves.
Confucius (551-479 BC)
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for
the body.
Margaret
Fuller (1810-1850)
Walking is man's best medicine.
Hippocrates (460-377 BC)
Hatred--the anger of the weak. Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897)
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves:
the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
Ivan Illich (1926-2002)
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do, something to love, and something
to hope for. Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play
than in a year of discussion. Plato
(427-347 BC)
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the
finest men of past centuries. Rene
Descartes (1596-1650)
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the
reflection of his own face. William Thackeray (1811-1863)
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
Malcolm
Muggeridge
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston
Churchill
By trying to make things easier for their children, parents
can make things much harder for them.
Mardy
Grothe
It is always the secure who are humble.
G.K.
Chesterton (1874-1936)
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does
knowledge. Charles
Darwin (1809-1882)
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored
by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
I know what I have given you. I do not know what you
have received. Antonio
Porcia (1886-1968)
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel
de Cervantes (1547-1616)
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently
there. L.P.
Hartley (1895-1972)
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to
keep its edge. George RR Martin
A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing
to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it.
George
RR Martin
When soldiers lack discipline, the fault lies with their lord
commander.
Everything secret degenerates,
even the administration of justice;
nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion
and publicity. Lord
Acton (1834-1902)
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply
the commentary on it. Schopenhauer
(1788-1860)
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it
leaves to its children. Bonhoeffer
(1906-1945)
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
F.D.R.
(1882-1945)
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a
freight car; but if he has a university education, he
may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919)
The best writing is rewriting. E. B.
White (1899-1985)
Words--so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become
in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel
Hawthorne (1804-1864)
I and the public know./What all schoolchildren learn/
Those to whom evil is done/ Do evil in return.
W.
H. Auden (1907-1973).
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler
is to look at the men he has around him.
Niccolo
Machiavelli (1469-1527)
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience,
the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
The only devils in this world are those running around
in our own hearts, and that is where all battles should
be fought. Gandhi
(1869-1948)
Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than
salt water does on thirst.
Walter
Weckler
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we
complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
John
Collins (1848-1908)
Taught from infancy that beauty
is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its
gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Mary
Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)
Against stupidity, the very Gods themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich
von Schiller
The hearts of men have such blind darkness in them.
Ovid
(43 BC-AD 18)
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the
wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser
today than he was yesterday.
Alexander
Pope (1688-1744)
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped
anything but himself.
Richard
Francis Burton (1821-1890)
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the
young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it
cares for its helpless members.
Pearl
S. Buck (1892-1973)
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can
judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel
Kant (1724-1804)
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900)
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with hands and his
brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his
heart is an artist.
Louis
Nizer (1902-1994)
There are three ingredients to the good life: learning,
earning and yearning.
(Christopher
Morley (1890-1957)
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal
laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss
of a crown are events of the same size.
Mark
Twain 1835-1910
Language is the only homeland.
Czeslaw
Milosz 1911
It is surprising what a man can do when he has to,
and how little most men do when they don't have to.
Walter
Linn
One father is more than a hundred
schoolmasters.
English
proverb
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
French
proverb
Good deeds are the best prayers.
Serbian
proverb
A man does not look behind the door unless
he has stood there himself.
William
Dubois (1868-1963)
It is human nature to hate the man whom you
have hurt.
Publius
Tacitus (55BC)
A compliment is something like a kiss through
a veil. Victor
Hugo (1802-1885)
If we don't believe in freedom of expression
for people we despise, we don't believe in
it at all.
Noam
Chomsky (1928-)
A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret
Atwood (1939-)
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for
us.
Alexander
Graham Bell (1847-1922)
Time wears away error and polishes truth.
Gaston
Marc (1764-1830)
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself,
than straightforward and simple integrity in another. -Charles
Caleb Colton, author and clergyman (1780-1832)
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth
knowing was known at
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the
desire of the man. Madame de Stael (1766-1817)
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but
too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be
life-threatening. -Maya Angelou, poet (1928- )
A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be
compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has
been hurt. -G. K. Chesterton, (1874-1936)
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by
indifference.
Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986)
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking
that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just
as our memory does. -Jorge Luis Borges, writer (1899-1986)
Shadow owes its birth to light.
-John Gay, poet and dramatist (1685-1732)
I am so convinced of
the advantages of
looking at mankind instead of
reading about them, and of the bitter
effects of staying at home with all
the narrow prejudices of an Islander,
that I think there should be a law
amongst us to set our young men abroad
for a term among the few allies our
wars have left us. -Lord Byron, poet (1788-1824)
Which of us is not forever a stranger and
alone? -Thomas Wolfe, novelist
(1900-1938)
We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows
that we are of importance enough to be courted. -Ralph Waldo Emerson,
writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
-Aldous Huxley,
novelist (1894-1963)
Literature is the language of society, as speech is the
language of man.
-Louis de Bonald, philosopher and politician (1754-1840)
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to
act humanely or to
think sanely under the influence of a great fear. -Bertrand Russell,
philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates
aggression,
whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its
business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy
it. -Lewis H. Lapham, editor and writer (1935- )
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our
embarrassment when
alone together. -Jean de la Bruyere, essayist and moralist (1645-1696)
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds
alive on the
shelves. -Gilbert Highet, writer (1906-1978)
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the
abundance of
those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too
little. -
Extreme justice is extreme injustice. -Marcus Tullius
Cicero, statesman,
orator, writer (106-43 BCE)
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking
we used when we
created them. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
Be good and you will be lonesome. -Mark Twain, author and
humorist
(1835-1910)
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do
only a little. -Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797)
Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their
environment.
-Learned Hand, jurist (1872-1961)
I place economy among the first and most important
republican virtues, and
Public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. To preserve our
-Thomas Jefferson, third
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am
old, I admire kind
people. -Abraham Joshua Heschel, theology professor (1907-1972)
Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her
laws, you are
your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. -Luther Burbank,
horticulturist (1849-1926)
Because we don't understand the brain very well we're
constantly tempted to
Use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my
childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone
Switchboard. (What else could it be?) And I was amused to see that
Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain
Worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic
And electromagnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and now,
obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer. -John R. Searle,
philosophy professor (1932- )
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning
process where
teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. -Arthur Koestler,
novelist and journalist (1905-1983)
Words are things; and a small drop of ink / Falling like
dew upon a thought,
produces / That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. -Lord Byron,
poet (1788-1824)
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened
the fiber of a
Free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, 32nd
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will
incline towards the
religion of solitude. -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater
vanity in others; it
makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty. -Louis Kronenberger, writer
(1904-1980)
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not
know what it will
bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country. -Anais
Nin, author (1903-1977)
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of
them you can get
through, but rather how many can get through to you. -Mortimer J. Adler,
philosopher, educator and author (1902-2001)
It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since
that day I have not had time to remake the world. -
Will Durant, historian (1885-1981)
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
I am malicious because I am miserable. ... If any being felt
emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return
them a hundred and a hundred fold
(words of Frankenstein monster).
-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author (1797-1851)
I fear nothing, I hope for nothing, I am free. -
Nikos Kazantzakis, poet and novelist (1883-1957)
You can safely assume that you've created God in your
own image when it turns out that God hates all the
same people you do. -
Anne Lamott, writer (1954- )