Quotes and Sayings

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Confucius

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

John Heywood

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

Hebrew Prove

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, 200 A. D.

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Robert Collie

An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.

Benjamin Franklin

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.

Latin Prove

Not all who wander are lost.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me.

George Bernard Shaw

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Salvador Dali

A child only educated at school is an uneducated child.

George Santayana

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

G. K. Chesterton

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Leo C. Rosten

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Aldous Huxley

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

A. A. Hodge

When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

Marquis de Sade

I am sailing out along parallel 32. 5 to stress that this is the Libyan border. This is the line of death where we shall stand and fight with our backs to the wall. On planning confrontation with US Sixth Fleet in Mediterranean.

Muammar Qaddafi

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

Lao Tzu

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Stephen Hawking

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nade

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self - Solicitude is the enemy of well - Being.

John Updike

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

Andr Malraux

I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.

George Eliot

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality.

Arnold Bennett

The softest things in the world to overcome the hardest things in the world.

Lao - Tzu

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

Erich Fromm

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Charlotte Bronte

Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.

Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - Particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.

Woody Allen

Every disappointment gives you opportunity to make another appointment.

B. A. Fajimi

And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Seneca

Yesterday is a canceled check tomorrow is a promissory note today is the only cash you have - - So spend it wisely.

Kay Lyons

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

Arnold Toynbee