Age Quotes
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?Eknath Easwaran
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.Author Unknown
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.Robert E. Lee
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.Diane Ackerman
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.Steven Weinberg
The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.Kahlil Gibran
Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.Johann von Goethe
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.Brendan Francis Behan
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.W. Somerset Maugham
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.William Feathe
In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.Erica Jong
There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage.La Rochefoucauld
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.Henry Louis Mencken
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field - work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.Robert Graves
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.Sir W. Temple
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.Charles Caleb Colton
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.Booth Tarkington
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.Francois de Fenelon
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.Saint Augustine
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.Johnson
No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.Clifford Bax
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.Coventry Patmore
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage.John Andrew Holmes
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.Calvin Coolidge
A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.Anon.
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....Leo C. Rosten
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.Marilyn Monroe
The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.George W. Bush, Speech (2005)
