Quotes and Sayings
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.Wilson Mizne
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.Bertrand Russell, "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic? ", 1947
It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others.Mark Twain
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.Hannah Arendt
All we ask is to be let alone.Jefferson Davis
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.Alexander Pope
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.Martha Graham
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.Aldous Huxley
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.John Peel
I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.Karl von Bonstetten
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.Rabbi Harold Kushne
We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.George W. Bush, September 7, 2003
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Alfred North Whitehead
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.Alice Walke
The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.Charles Du Bos
Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.Kahlil Gibran
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.William Wirt
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.Eric Amble
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.Franklin P. Jones
The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.George J. Seidel
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.Mitch Ratliffe
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.Harry Golden
What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry.Unknown
The key to your universe is that you can choose.Carl Frederick
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.Thomas Carlyle
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.Thomas Fulle
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.Erich Fromm
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.Horace Bushnell
Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.Nicholai Velimirovic
All glory comes from daring to begin.Eugene F. Ware
Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.William S. Burroughs
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.Mark Twain
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.C. C. Colton
