Those friends thou hast, and their period is moving in the opposite Those who educate children well
children well are
adoption tried, grapple them to thy
soul with hoops of steel.
William Shakespeare
None of us can know what we are
capable of until we are tested.
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell
It was love at first sight, at last
sight, at ever and ever sight.
Vladimir Nabokov
A great many people think they are
thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices.
William James
None is so rich as to throw away a
friend.
Turkish Proverb
The Enlightenment started with
essentially philosophical insights
spread by a new technology. Our
direction. It has generated a potentially
dominating technology in search of a
guiding philosophy.
Henry A. Kissinger
It is funny that men who are supposed
to be scientific cannot get themselves to
realise the basic principle of physics,
that action and reaction are equal and
opposite, that when you persecute
people you always rouse them to be
strong and stronger.
Gertrude Stein
He who permits himself to tell a lie
once, finds it much easier to do it a
second and third time, till at length it
becomes habitual; he tells lies without
attending to it, and truths without the
world's believing him. This falsehood of
the tongue leads to that of the heart.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to
Peter Carr
No country can act wisely
simultaneously in every part of the
globe at every moment of time.
Henry Kissinger
more to be honored than they who
produce them; for these only gave them
life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
If anyone tells you that a certain person
speaks ill of you, do not make excuses
about what is said of you, but answer:
'He was ignorant of my other faults,
else he would not have mentioned these
alone.'
Epictetus
Knowledge is the treasure, but
judgment the treasurer of a wise man.
William Penn, Some Fruits of
Solitude
Recognizing the unity of all life, one
sees his own self in all other beings.
This allows one to be impartial about
all things.
Buddha
When a man is pushed, tormented,
defeated, he has a chance to learn
something; he has gained facts, learned
his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of
conceit, has got moderation and real
skill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Resentment is the 'number one'
offender. It destroys more alcoholics
than anything else. From it stem all
forms of spiritual disease, for we have
been not only mentally and physically
ill, we have been spiritually sick.
Alcoholics Anonymous
The golden moments in the stream of
life rush past us, and we see nothing
but sand; the angels come to visit us
and we only know them when they are
gone.
George Eliot
To most of us the real life is the life we
do not lead.
Oscar Wilde
A truly virtuous person cannot be
indifferent to the troubled world in
which he lives.
Lao Tzu
We, sir, are feverishly in pursuit of
power - For us the pursuit of power is
not an anemic theory: the will to power
is for us literally the whole meaning of
this life.
Adolf Hitler
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to
do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
I suppose if you had to choose just one
quality to have that would be it:
vitality.
John F. Kennedy
If you do not tell the truth about
yourself you cannot tell it about other
people.
Virginia Woolf
We've all got both light and dark inside
us. What matters is the part we choose
to act on.
J.K. Rowling
Money is always there, but the pockets
change.
Gertrude Stein
It is true that liberty is precious; so
precious that it must be carefully
rationed.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Suffering is the sole origin of
consciousness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
When he shall die, take him and cut him
out in little stars, and he will make the
face of heaven so fine that all the world
will be in love with night, and pay no
worship to the garish sun.
William Shakespeare, Romeo
and Juliet, III, ii, 21
What wisdom can you find that is
greater than kindness?
Jean Jacques Rousseau
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no
throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no
crown.
William Penn
When the student is ready, the teacher
will appear.
Zen Koan
There is no wisdom equal to that which
comes after the event.
Geraldine Jewsbury
The essence of immorality is the
tendency to make an exception of one's
self.
Jane Addams
I may have my faults, but being wrong
ain't one of them.
Jimmy Hoffa
In nature there are neither rewards nor
punishments; there are only
consequences.
Robert Ingersoll
As I look back, it now seems that, with
all [our] thought and work and good
intentions we achieved absolutely
nothing nothing that I or Ben [Strong,
head of the N.Y. Fed] did,
internationally produced any good
effect'or indeed any effect at all except
that we collected money from a lot of
poor devils and gave it over to the four
winds.
Montagu Norman, Governor of
the Bank of England, 1920-
1944.
To be strong, you have to be like water:
if there are no obstacles, it flows; if
there is an obstacle it stops; if a dam is
broken, then it flows further; if a vessel
is square, then it has a square form; if a
vessel is round, then it has a round
form. Because it is so soft and flexible, it
is the most necessary and the strongest
thing.
Lao Tzu
When we as people, a free people, go
wobbly on the truth, even on what may
seem the most trivial of matters, we go
wobbly on America. If we do not as
Americans confront the crisis of ethics
and integrity in our society, and among
our leaders in both the public and
private sector, and regrettably at times
even the nonprofit sector, then
American democracy as we know it is
entering its twilight years.
Rex Tillerson, Commencement
Speech at the Virginia Military
Institute, May 16, 2018.
In the end these things matter most:
How well did you love? How fully did
you live? How deeply did you let go?
SiddhÄrtha Gautama
The great majority of mankind are
satisfied with appearance, as though
they were realities and are often more
influenced by the things that seem than
by those that are.
Niccolo Machiavelli
See what a scourge is laid upon your
hate, that heaven finds means to kill
your joys with love.
William Shakespeare, Romeo
and Juliet
Real pain can alone cure us of
imaginary ills. We feel a thousand
miseries till we are lucky enough to feel
misery.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Where painting is weakest, namely, in
the expression of the highest moral and
spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely
strong.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Talent and intelligence never yet
inoculated anyone against the caprice
of the fates.
J.K. Rowling
Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a
degree.
Joyce Carol Oates
All reactionaries are paper tigers.
Mao Zedong
If I had refused to institute a
negotiation or had not persevered in it,
I would have been degraded in my own
estimation as a man of honor.
John Adams
Fault always lies in the same place:
with him weak enough to lay blame.
Stephen King
Pray, v: To ask that the laws of the
universe be annulled on behalf of a
single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
It is impossible to live without failing at
something, unless you live so cautiously
that you might as well not have lived at
all, in which case you have failed by
default.
J. K. Rowling
You can't wait for inspiration. You have
to go after it with a club.
Jack London
If nobody can learn from the past, then
there's no point in raking it up.
Billie Holiday
In the works of man as in those of
nature, what most deserves notice is his
intention.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character cannot be developed in ease
and quiet. Only through experience of
trial and suffering can the soul be
strengthened, vision cleared, ambition
inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
Early childhood education is the key to
the betterment of society.
Maria Montessori
To secure ourselves against defeat lies
in our own hands, but the opportunity
of defeating the enemy is provided by
the enemy himself.
Sun Tzu
[Clément] Moret, [the governor of
the Banque de France from 1930 to
1935], refused to subscribe to the view
that the solution was to inject more
money into the system. For him the
source of the world's economic
problems was a lack of confidence
brought on precisely by too much
experimentation with money.
Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of
Finance: The Bankers Who
Broke the World.
There are two kinds of men and
women, those who have in them
resisting as their way of winning those
who have in them attacking as their
way of winning.
Gertrude Stein
A nation can survive its fools, and even
the ambitious. But it cannot survive
treason from within.
Cicero
Never underestimate the difficulty of
changing false beliefs by facts.
Henry Rosovsky
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There
is nothing the matter with this, except
that it ain't so.
Mark Twain
The child, in fact, once he feels sure of
himself, will no longer seek the
approval of authority after every step.
Maria Montessori
Burdens are for shoulders strong
enough to carry them.
Margaret Mitchell
Myths which are believed in tend to
become true.
George Orwell
I am an optimist, because I don't see the
point in being anything else.
Abraham Lincoln
Man needs so little - yet he begins
wanting so much.
Louis L'Amour
What a wonderful life I've had! I only
wish I'd realized it sooner.
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
The artist brings something into the
world that didn't exist before, and he
does it without destroying something
else.
John Updike
If one is cruel to himself, how can we
expect him to be compassionate with
others?
Hasdai Ibn Shaprut
I was always looking outside myself for
strength and confidence, but it comes
from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud
Woe to those who are wise in their own
eyes.
Isaiah 5:21
Future generations are unlikely to
condone our lack of prudent concern
for the integrity of the natural world
that supports all life.
Rachel Carson
The role of a writer is not to say what
we can all say, but what we are unable
to say.
Ana Nin
Nothing can add more power to your
life than concentrating all of your
energies on a limited set of targets.
Nido Qubein
To love someone means to see him as
God intended him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is a risk you cannot afford to
take, and there is the risk you cannot
afford not to take.
Peter Drucker
Men strive for peace, but it is their
enemies that give them strength, and I
think if man no longer had enemies, he
would have to invent them, for his
strength only grows from struggle.
Louis L'mour, The Lonesome
Gods
I'm always making a comeback but
nobody ever tells me where I've been.
Billie Holiday
There are only two great currents in
the history of mankind: the baseness
which makes conservatives and the
envy which makes revolutionaries.
Jules de Goncourt
I don't believe we shall ever have good
money again before we take the thing
out of the hands of government...all we
can do is by some sly roundabout way
introduce something that they can't
stop.
Friedrich A. Hayek, 1984
You can preach a better sermon with
your life, than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith
When you get into a tight place and
everything goes against you, till it
seems as though you could not hang on
a minute longer, never give up then, for
that is just the place and time that the
tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Children become like the things they
love.
Maria Montessori
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect
nothing. To depend on nothing.
Ayn Rand
There is one kind of robber whom the
law does not strike at, and who steals
what is most precious to men: time.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Everybody ought to do at least two
things each day that he hates to do, just
for practice.
William James
People living deeply have no fear of
death.
Ana Nin
Education is not the learning of facts;
but the training of the mind to think.
William Butler Yeats
Many's the time I've suspected
something when I was wrong; but
there were other times I'd been right,
and so I was still among the living.
Louis L'mour, The Sky-Liners
It wasn't by accident that the
Gettysburg address was so short. The
laws of prose writing are as immutable
as those of flight, of mathematics, or
physics.
Ernest Hemingway
There is no subject so old that
something new cannot be said about it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Let not your tongue cut your throat.
Arabian Proverb
Till I loved I never lived.
Emily Dickinson
Now, now my good man, this is no time
for making enemies.
Voltaire, on his deathbed in
response to a priest asking that
he renounce Satan
Even in the vast and mysterious
reaches of the sea we are brought back
to the fundamental truth that nothing
lives to itself.
Rachel Carson
Glendower: I can call spirits from the
vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or
any man; But will they come when you
do call for them?
William Shakespeare, Henry
IV, Part 1.
I want you to be everything that's you,
deep at the center of your being.
Confucius
It is easier to perceive the error than to
find the truth, for the former lies on the
surface and it is easily seen, while the
latter lies in the depth, where few are
willing to search for it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is folly to fear what one cannot avoid.
Danish Proverb
A dancer, if she is great, can give to the
people something that they can carry
with them forever. They can never
forget it, and it has changed them,
though they may never know it.
Isadora Duncan
What is called generosity is most often
just the vanity of giving which we like
more than what we give.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is only one way to get anybody to
do anything. And that is by making the
other person want to do it.
Dale Carnegie
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf
The truth is not for all men but only for
those who seek it.
Ayn Rand
A pause giving time for thought was the
truly courteous way of beginning and
conducting a conversation.
Chief Luther Standing Bear
Difficulties break some men but make
others. No axe is sharp enough to cut
the soul of a sinner who keeps on
trying, one armed with the hope that he
will rise even in the end.
Nelson Mandela
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira Gandhi
Societies in decline have no use for
visionaries.
Ana Nin
As every divided kingdom falls, so
every mind divided between many
studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo da Vinci
The greatest step forward in human
evolution was made when society
began to help the weak and the poor,
instead of oppressing and despising
them.
Maria Montessori
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in
our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What comes from the heart, goes to the
heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I don't like people who have never
fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is
lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life
hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Boris Pasternak
Like all Holmes' reasoning, ' Dr.
Watson said, 'the thing seemed
simplicity itself when it was once
explained. '
Arthur Conan Doyle
The trouble is you almost have to
marry a man before you can find out
the sort of wife he needs; and usually
it's exactly the sort you are not.
Willa Cather
Confidence doesn't come out of
nowhere. It's a result of hours and days
and weeks and years of constant work
and dedication.
Roger Staubach
It takes two to speak the truth; one to
speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
I am always more interested in what I
am about to do than what I have
already done.
Rachel Carson
The only abnormality is the incapacity
to love.
Ana Nin
One who is good at being a warrior
does not appear formidable.
Lao Tzu
If we judge others, it is because we are
judging something in ourselves of
which we are unaware.
John A. Sandford
The writer must believe that what he is
doing is the most important thing in the
world. And he must hold to this illusion
even when he knows it is not true.
John Steinbeck
I wonder men dare trust themselves
with men.
William Shakespeare
Deep faith eliminates fear.
Lech Walesa
Some people think luxury is the
opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the
opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel
Human greatness does not lie in wealth
or power, but in character and
goodness. People are just people, and
all people have faults and
shortcomings, but all of us are born
with a basic goodness.
Anne Frank
Do what you feel in your heart to be
right'for you'll be criticized anyway.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief
essentials for success in life, no matter
what may be one's aim.
John D. Rockefeller Sr.
A watch is the most essential part of a
lecture.
Willa Cather
I could die for you. But I couldn't, and
wouldn't, live for you.
Ayn Rand
I hope our wisdom will grow with our
power, and teach us, that the less we
use our power, the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson
Every child is an artist. The problem is
how to remain an artist once he grows
up.
Pablo Picasso
Whatever name you give to the origin
of man, this spiritual quality of humans
to understand, feel, and exist, it is holy,
it is divine, and, therefore, it should be
eternal.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Most of the important things in the
world have been accomplished by
people who have kept on trying when
there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
That is what you are. That's what you
all are...all of you young people who
served in the war. You are a lost
generation.
Gertrude Stein
To those waiting with bated breath for
that favourite media catchphrase, the
U-turn, I have only one thing to say:
You turn if you want to. The lady's not
for turning.
Margaret Thatcher
It always seems impossible until it's
done.
Nelson Mandela
The silent man was ever to be trusted,
while the man ever ready with speech
was never taken seriously.
Chief Luther Standing Bear
Be true to your work, your word, and
your friend.
Henry David Thoreau
I am trying to make, before I get
through, a picture of the whole
world'or as much of it as I have seen.
Boiling it down always, rather than
spreading it out thin.
Ernest Hemingway, on
writing.
The more cruel the wrong that men
commit against an individual or a
people, the deeper their hatred and
contempt for their victim. Conceit and
false pride on the part of a nation
prevent the rise of remorse for its
crime.
Albert Einstein, the unveiling
of the Memorial for the Battle
of the Warsaw Ghetto, 19 April
1948.
Lenin was certainly right. There is no
subtler, no surer means of overturning
the existing basis of society than to
debauch the currency.
John Maynard Keynes, The
Economic Consequence of the
Peace
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
Theodore Roosevelt
My life didn't please me, so I created
my life.
Coco Chanel
With all thy getting, get understanding.
Proverbs 4:17
He who knows only his own side of the
case knows little of that.
John Stuart Mill
The proper study of mankind is
woman.
Henry B. Adams
Men too involved in details usually
become unable to deal with great
matters.
François de La
Rochefoucauld
If I could say it, I would not have to
dance it.
Isadora Duncan
In nature nothing exists alone.
Rachel Carson
Wise men hear and see as little children
do.
Lao Tzu
I do not know anyone who has got to
the top without hard work. That is the
recipe. It will not always get you to the
top, but should get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher
Not every mistake is a foolish one.
Cicero
A pause giving time for thought was the
truly courteous way of beginning and
conducting a conversation.
Chief Luther Standing Bear
What is hell? I maintain that it is the
suffering of not being able to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
When the moon's light is reflected on
the surface of the ocean, the waves
make the moon appear restless, but in
reality, the moon is calm and serene. It
is the water that is restless.
Maitreya
Nobody has ever measured, even the
poets, how much a heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Money has no motherland; financiers
are without patriotism and without
decency. Their sole object is gain.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Read no history'nothing but biography,
for that is life without theory.
Benjamin Disraeli
Do you know, one of the great problems
of our age is that we are governed by
people who care more about feelings
than they do about thoughts and ideas?
Now, thoughts and ideas, that interests
me.
Margaret Thatcher
The greatest science in the world in
heaven and on earth is love.
Mother Teresa
Simplicity is the keynote of all true
elegance.
Coco Chanel
The most difficult yet important
question about the world into which we
are headed is this: What will become of
human consciousness if its own
explanatory power is surpassed by AI,
and societies are no longer able to
interpret the world they inhabit in
terms that are meaningful to them?
Henry A. Kissinger, 'How the
Enlightenment Ends.'
Ability is of little account without
opportunity.
Napoléon Bonaparte
The first draft of anything is s**t.
Ernest Hemingway
Damaged people are dangerous. They
know they can survive.
Josephine Hart
A bad cause will ever be supported by
bad means and bad men.
Thomas Paine
Group identification can powerfully
reinforce conformity effects They will
do what their fellow tribe members
do'even to the point of savagery.
Amy Chua, Political Tribes:
Group Instinct and the Fate of
Nations
Dance is the movement of the universe
concentrated in an individual.
Isadora Duncan
We have so many metrics...and the
thing I have noticed is that when the
anecdotes and the data disagree, the
anecdotes are usually right. There's
something wrong with the way you're
measuring.
Jeff Bezos
Fashion changes, but style endures.
Coco Chanel
There is no data on the future.
Laura Cutler
I've always had a weakness for lost
causes once they're really lost.
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with
the Wind
Nowhere can man find a quieter or
more untroubled retreat than in his
own soul.
Marcus Aurelius
Time is the longest distance between
two places.
Tennessee Williams
So long as little children are allowed to
suffer, there is no true love in this
world.
Isadora Duncan
There is nothing so bitter that a patient
mind cannot find some solace for it.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
No pessimist ever discovered the secret
of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted
land, or opened a new doorway for the
human spirit.
Helen Keller
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Whoever is happy will make others
happy.
Anne Frank
Perhaps someday it will be pleasant to
remember even this.
Virgil
Volumes are now written and spoken
upon the effect of the mind upon the
body. Much of it is true. But I wish a
little more was thought of the effect of
the body on the mind.
Florence Nightingale
Nothing can resist a will which will
stake even existence upon its
fulfillment.
Benjamin Disraeli
It was no accident that the Oxford
Dictionaries' word of the year in 2016
was 'post-truth, ' a condition where
facts are less influential in shaping
opinion than emotion and personal
belief. To adopt post-truth thinking is to
depart from Enlightenment ideas,
dominant in the West since the 17th
century, that value experience and
expertise, the centrality of fact,
humility in the face of complexity, the
need for study and a respect for ideas.
Michael Hayden, 'The End of
Intelligence'
Only a Woman, divine, could know all
that a woman can suffer.
Willa Cather
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass
his master.
Leonardo da Vinci
I am in politics because of the conflict
between good and evil, and I believe
that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher
If you give me six lines written by the
hand of the most honest of men, I will
find something in them which will hang
him.
Cardinal Richelieu
There is nothing more pitiable in the
world than an irresolute man
vacillating between two feelings, who
would willingly unite the two, and who
does not perceive that nothing can unite
them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some day the workers will take
possession of your city hall, and when
we do, no child will be sacrificed on the
altar of profit!
Mary Harris Jones ('Mother
Jones')
There are many people who claim to be
teachers of others who should
themselves be taught first of all.
Mother Teresa
Power undirected by high purpose
spells calamity; and high purpose by
itself is utterly useless if the power to
put it into effect is lacking.
Theodore Roosevelt, 'Words for
Today.'
Interest is the most important thing in
life; happiness is temporary, but
interest is continuous.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Print will never die. There's no
substitute for the feel of an actual book.
I adore physically turning pages, and
being able to underline passages and
not worrying about dropping them in
the bath or running out of power. I also
find print books objects of beauty.
J. K. Rowling
The first panacea for a mismanaged
nation is inflation of the currency; the
second is war. Both bring a temporary
prosperity; both bring a permanent
ruin. But both are the refuge of political
and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway
Quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? (Who is
to guard the guards themselves?)
Satires by Juvenal
I prefer you to make mistakes in
kindness than work miracles in
unkindness.
Mother Teresa
Some ideas are so stupid only
intellectuals believe them.
George Orwell
If they give you ruled paper, write the
other way.
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Fashion is not something that exists in
dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in
the street, fashion has to do with ideas,
the way we live, what is happening.
Coco Chanel
Where the yearning for freedom
destroys order, the yearning for order
will destroy freedom.
Eric Hoffer
If you make your heart into a weapon,
you always end up using it on yourself.
Gregory David Roberts,
Shantaram
The less prudence with which others
conduct their affairs, the greater
prudence with which we should conduct
our own affairs.
Warren Buffett
But what is government itself, but the
greatest of all reflections on human
nature? If men were angels, no
government would be necessary.
The Federalist, Paper #151
There were tides in the earth, long
before there was an ocean.
Rachel Carson
Envy and arrogance are the two
opposite sides of the same black crystal.
Theodore Roosevelt
I was never one to patiently pick up
broken fragments and glue them
together again and tell myself that the
mended whole was as good as new.
What is broken is broken'and I'd rather
remember it as it was at its best than
mend it and see the broken places as
long as I lived.
Margaret Mitchell
You may not be interested in war, but
war is interested in you.
Leon Trotsky
Even the worst moments and the
weariest journeys must come to an end.
Baroness Orczy
I invented my life by taking for granted
that everything I did not like would
have an opposite, which I would like.
Coco Chanel
It is a fraud to accept what you cannot
repay.
Publilius Syrus
A wise man's questions contain half the
answers.
Solomon ben Yehuda ibn
Gabirol
Nothing in my life, no matter how well
or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or
clearer than sorrow.
Gregory David Roberts,
Shantaram
How wonderful it is that nobody need
to wait a single moment before starting
to improve the world.
Anne Frank
A man should look for what is, and not
for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein
The question is whether any civilization
can wage relentless war on life without
destroying itself, and without losing the
right to be called civilized.
Rachel Carson
We don't see things as they are, we see
them as we are.
Ana Nin
Time is the coin of your life. It is the
only coin you have, and only you can
determine how it will be spent. Be
careful lest you let other people spend it
for you.
Carl Sandburg
What is now the past was once the
future.
F. W. Maitland
If someone wishes for good health, one
must first ask oneself if he is ready to
do away with the reasons for his
illness. Only then is it possible to help
him.
Hippocrates
A man that hath the patience to go by
steps may deceive one much wiser than
himself.
Marquis of Halifax
Three things in life are important. The
first is to be kind. The second is to be
kind. The third is to be kind.
Henry James
One of the tests of leadership is the
ability to recognize a problem before it
becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasgow
How far you go in life depends on your
being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving, and
tolerant of the weak and strong'because
someday you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
Silent gratitude isn't much use to
anyone.
Gertrude Stein
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves,
that we should take seriously.
Peter Ustinov
Convictions are more dangerous foes of
truth than lies.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
We have it in our power to begin the
world over again.
Thomas Paine
Until you make peace with who you
are, you'll never be content with what
you have.
Doris Mortman
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is
a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso
In order to be irreplaceable, one must
always be different.
Coco Chanel
He who mistrusts most should be
trusted least.
Theognis
One of the reasons why we crave love,
and seek it so desperately, is that love is
the only cure for loneliness, and shame,
and sorrow. But some feelings sink so
deep into the heart that only loneliness
can help you find them again. Some
truths about yourself are so painful
that only shame can help you live with
them. And some things are just so sad
that only your soul can do the crying
for you.
Gregory David Roberts,
Shantaram
Life's under no obligation to give us
what we expect.
Margaret Mitchell
The four most beautiful words in our
common language: I told you so.
Gore Vidal
There is nothing new in Wall Street.
There can't be because speculation is as
old as the hills. Whatever happens in
the stock market today has happened
before and will happen again.
Jesse Livermore
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be
done.
Marie Curie
Any fool can make things bigger, more
complex, and more violent. It takes a
man of genius'and a lot of courage'to
move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein
Snowden was the Chernobyl of data
protection.
Max Schrems, 'The man who
took on Facebook and won'
Nature gives you the face you have at
twenty. Life shapes the face you have at
thirty. But at fifty you get the face you
deserve.
Coco Chanel
[There's] another kind of river, one that
runs through every one of us, no matter
where we come from, all over the
world. It's the river of the heart, and
the heart's desire. It's the pure, essential
truth of what each one of us is, and can
achieve.
Gregory David Roberts,
Shantaram
Courage is contagious. When a brave
man takes a stand, the spines of others
are stiffened.
Billy Graham
Professing to be wise, they became
fools.
Romans 1:22
Terrorism is above all a group
phenomenon: it's a murderous
expression of tribal politics.
Amy Chua, Political Tribes:
Group Instinct and the Fate of
Nations
Insanity in individuals is something
rare'but in groups, parties, nations and
epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Let us always meet each other with a
smile, for the smile is the beginning of
love.
Mother Teresa
Where so many hours have been spent
in convincing myself that I am right, is
there not some reason to fear I may be
wrong?
Jane Austen
It would be very nice if at the end of our
lives we could feel that we'd never done
anyone any harm.
Agatha Christie
You find out the strength of wind by
trying to walk against it, not lying
down You never find out the strength of
evil impulse inside us until we try to
fight it.
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity,
1952
If you just set out to be liked, you will be
prepared to compromise on anything
at any time, and would achieve
nothing.
Margaret Thatcher
In every decision, be it personal,
governmental or corporate, we must
consider how it will affect our
descendants seven generations into the
future.
Iroquois Great Law of Peace
A small body of determined spirits fired
by an unquenchable faith in their
mission can alter the course of history.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
A nation's strength ultimately consists
in what it can do on its own, and not in
what it can borrow from others.
Indira Gandhi
His mind, not his heart; his time, not
his passions, were given to this world.
Trevanian, Shibumi
Man fails to profit from the lessons of
history because his prejudgments
prevent him from drawing the
indicated conclusions and because
history will often capriciously take a
different direction from that in which
her lessons point.
Barbara W. Tuchman,
Practicing History: Selected
Essays
Like most of those who study history, he
learned from the mistakes of the past
how to make new ones.
A. J. P. Taylor, on Napoleon III,
Mistaken Lessons from the Past
The structure of a play is always the
story of how the birds came home to
roost.
Arthur Miller, Harper's Aug.
1958
Being male is now the single largest
demographic factor for early death.
Randolph Nesse, Director of
the Center for Evolution
Freedom will destroy itself if it is not
exercised within some sort of moral
framework, some body of shared
beliefs, some spiritual heritage
transmitted through the Church, the
family, and the school.
Margaret Thatcher
It is the Gods' custom to bring low all
things of surpassing greatness.
Herodotus
I don't believe in collective guilt, but I
do believe in collective responsibility
Audrey Hepburn
I've never seen a monument erected to
a pessimist.
Paul Harvey
I am myself unworthy of the prize. I do
not want it personally. But by this
award the Norwegian people have
recognized the existence of the poor. It
is on their behalf that I have come.
Mother Teresa, on receipt of
Nobel Peace Prize
You just can't beat the person who
won't give up.
Babe Ruth
I never heard George Washington or
Ben Franklin speak ten minutes at a
time, not to any but the main point.
Thomas Jefferson
If you don't know history, then you
don't know anything. You are a leaf
that doesn't know that it is a part of a
tree.
Michael Crichton
You can't always get what you want
but if you try sometimes you just might
find you get what you need.
Mick Jagger
Selfishness must always be forgiven
you know, because there is no hope of a
cure.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
I used to think I felt sorry for my father
because I could never tell him I loved
him. It was for myself that I felt sorry. I
needed the saying more than he needed
the hearing.
Trevanian, Shibumi
The power to question is the basis of all
human progress.
Indira Gandhi
If reality did not comport with his will,
he would ignore it, as he had done with
the birth of his daughter and would do
years later, when first diagnosed with
cancer. Even in small everyday
rebellions, such as not putting a license
plate on his car and parking it in
handicapped spaces, he acted as if he
were not subject to the strictures
around him.
Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
The greatest happiness of life is the
conviction that we are loved'loved for
ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of
ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Everything about him was old except
his eyes and they were the same color
as the sea and were cheerful and
undefeated.
Ernest Hemingway, The Old
Man and the Sea
After my mother died, I found a little
book of hers which recorded everything
I had ever done, how I had done it, and
how proud she was of her son Conrad.
Conrad Veidt
Most people are other people. Their
thoughts are someone else's opinions,
their lives a mimicry, their passions a
quotation.
Oscar Wilde
Great minds discuss ideas; average
minds discuss events; small minds
discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Money often costs too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone,
person to person.
Mother Teresa
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only
to be understood. Now is the time to
understand more, so that we may fear
less.
Marie Curie
There are rich people, and there are
those who have money. They are not
the same people.
Coco Chanel
The people who are most bigoted are
the people who have no convictions at
all.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
During my eighty-seven years I have
witnessed a whole succession of
technological revolutions. But none of
them has done away with the need for
character in the individual or the
ability to think.
Bernard Baruch
The development of full artificial
intelligence could spell the end of the
human race. It would take off on its
own, and re-design itself at an ever
increasing rate.
Stephen Hawking, 2014
We cease loving ourselves if no one
loves us.
Germaine de Staël
When a fellow says it hain't the money
but the principle o' the thing, it's th'
money.
Frank McKinney 'Kin' Hubbard
Never do things others can do and will
do if there are things others cannot do
or will not do.
Amelia Earhart
The road up and the road down is one
and the same.
Heraclitus
Death twitches my ear, 'Live, ' he says,
'I am coming. '
Virgil
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark
side which ne never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain
Wait for that wisest of all counselors,
Time.
Pericles
Unhappiness is best defined as the
difference between our talents and our
expectations.
Edward de Bono
No man does anything from a single
motive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde
You can discover what your enemy
fears most by observing the means he
uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer
He wears a mask, and his face grows to
fit it.
George Orwell, Shooting an
Elephant
When a man is wrong and won't admit
it he always becomes angry.
Thomas Haliburton
In the developed countries, there is a
poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit,
of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no
greater sickness in the world today
than that one.
Mother Teresa
Nothing is more obstinate than a
fashionable consensus.
Margaret Thatcher
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel;
it is man's injustice to woman. If by
strength is meant brute strength, then,
indeed, is woman less brute than man.
If by strength is meant moral power,
then woman is immeasurably man's
superior. Has she not greater intuition,
is she not more self-sacrificing, has she
not greater powers of endurance, has
she not greater courage? Without her,
man could not be. If nonviolence is the
law of our being, the future is with
woman. Who can make a more effective
appeal to the heart than woman?
Gandhi
The best and most beautiful things in
the world cannot be seen or even
touched'they must be felt with the
heart.
Helen Keller
The longest journey is the journey
inward.
Dag Hammarskjold
The most exhausting thing in life, I have
discovered, is being insincere.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I never could tell a lie that anybody
would doubt, nor a truth that anybody
would believe.
Mark Twain
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every
opportunity; an optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Truth often suffers more by the heat of
its defenders than from the arguments
of its opposers.
William Penn, Some Fruits of
Solitude
A pain slashed through her heart as
savagely as a wild animal's fangs.
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with
the Wind
You never find yourself until you face
the truth.
Pearly Bailey
Be faithful in small things because it is
in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa
You saw his weakness; that he'll never
forgive.
Friedrich von Schiller
Sincerity is the single virtue that binds
the divine and man in one.
Shinto teaching
The best things in life are free. The
second best things are very, very
expensive.
Coco Chanel
Each one prays to God according to his
own light.
Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing is less applicable to life than a
mathematical argument. A proposition
expressed in numbers is definitely false
or true. In all other relations, the truth
is so mingled with the false that often
only instinct can help us to decide
among virtuous influences, sometimes
equally as strong in one direction as in
the other.
Germaine de Staël
We live in an age when self-interest
alone seems to determine all of man's
acts'and what empathy, what emotion,
what enthusiasm can ever grow out of
self-interest. It is pleasanter to dream
of those times of dedication, sacrifice,
and heroism that used to be, and that
have left honorable traces upon the
earth.
Germaine de Staël, Corinne,
or Italy
A lot of [tech] entrepreneurs say, 'we
are changing the world '. You're not
changing the world. The guy that's
developing a new therapy that's non-
opioid analgesic pain relief? That guy's
changing the world. He's going to save
thousands of lives.
J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy
Truth exists. Only lies are invented.
George Braque, Pensées sur
l'art
Elegance comes from being as beautiful
inside as outside.
Coco Chanel
Children have more need of models
than of critics.
Joseph Joubert
Why do we not hear the truth? Because
we do not speak it.
Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings
Am I therefore become your enemy
because I tell you the truth?
The Bible, Galatians 4:16
A creator is not in advance of his
generation but he is the first of his
contemporaries to be conscious of what
is happening to his generation.
Gertrude Stein, Picasso
Harsh counsels have no effect. They are
like hammers which are always
repulsed by the anvil.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
At the moment of death we will not be
judged according to the number of good
deeds we have done or by the diplomas
we have received in our lifetime. We
will be judged according to the love we
have put into our work.
Mother Teresa
As iron is worn away by frequent filing,
a family's strength is eroded by
incessant inner frictions.
Thiruvalluvar
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than
itself, but talent instantly recognizes
genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
There are decades where nothing
happens; and there are weeks where
decades happen.
Vladimir Lenin
It is a curse to have ideas that people
understand only when it is too late.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you always put limits on everything
you do, physical or anything else, it will
spread into your work and into your
life. There are no limits. There are only
plateaus, and you must not stay there,
you must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee
I murmured to Picasso that I liked his
portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said,
everybody says that she does not look
like it but that does not make any
difference, she will.
The Autobiography of Alice B.
Toklas
A nation that forgets its past has no
future.
Winston Churchill
The most terrible disease that can ever
strike a human being is to have no one
near him to be loved. Without a heart
full of love, without generous hands, it
is impossible to cure a man suffering of
loneliness.
Mother Teresa
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he
is less remote from the truth who
believes nothing, than he who believes
what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the
State of Virginia
To fail, you merely have to cultivate a
few bad habits. Once someone has
spent enough time cultivating bad
habits and biding their time, they are
much diminished.
Jordan Peterson, 12 Rules for
Life: An Antidote to Chaos
The truth is the truth even if nobody
believes it, and a lie is still a lie, even if
everybody believes it.
A.B. Fulton Sheen
Always be more than you appear and
never appear to be more than you are.
Angela Merkel
Clarity is of no importance because
nobody listens and nobody knows what
you mean no matter what you mean,
nor how clearly you mean what you
mean. But if you have vitality enough of
knowing enough of what you mean,
somebody and sometime and
sometimes a great many will have to
realize that you know what you mean
and so they will agree that you mean
what you know, what you know you
mean, which is as near as anybody can
come to understanding any one.
Gertrude Stein, Four in
America
There ain't no answer. There ain't
gonna be any answer. There never has
been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein
It is in times of difficulty that great
nations, like great men, display the
whole energy of their character and
become an object of admiration to
posterity.
Napoleon Bonaparte, Maxims
Modern neurosis began with the
discoveries of Copernicus. Science made
man feel small by showing him that the
earth was not the center of the
universe.
Mary McCarthy, On the
Contrary
Intellect does not attain its full force
unless it attacks power.
Anne Louise Germaine de
Staël
Ignoramus, n. A person unacquainted
with certain kinds of knowledge
familiar to yourself, and having certain
other kinds that you know nothing
about.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's
Dictionary
The care of human life and happiness,
and not their destruction, is the first
and only legitimate object of good
government.
Thomas Jefferson
Most of the misery of the world has
been caused by wars. And when the
wars were over, no one ever knew what
they were all about.
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with
the Wind
It's not the creation of wealth that is
wrong, but the love of money for its
own sake.
Margaret Thatcher
[At the Nuremberg Trials] Camp
commandant Rudolf Höss said, 'I
thought I was doing the right thing, I
was obeying orders, and now, I see that
it was unnecessary and wrong. But I
didn't personally murder anybody. I
was just the director of the
extermination programme in
Auschwitz. It was Hitler who ordered it
through Himmler and it was Eichmann
who gave me the order regarding
transports. '
Andrew Roberts, The Storm of
War: A New History of the
Second World War
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to
go to hell in such a way that they ask
for directions.
Winston Churchill
At particular times a great deal of
stupid people have a great deal of
stupid money At intervals the money of
these people'the blind capital, as we call
it, of the country'is particularly large
and craving; it seeks for someone to
devour it, and there is a "plethora"; it
finds someone, and there is
"speculation" it is devoured, and there
is 'panic. '
Walter Bagehot
The most difficult thing in the world is
to know how to do a thing and to watch
someone else do it wrong, without
comment.
T. H. White
Those who danced were thought to be
quite insane by those who could not
hear the music.
Anne Louise Germaine de
Staël
Not to trust anybody was very typical
of Josef Stalin. All the years of his life
did he trust one man only, and that was
Adolf Hitler.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
I always cheer up immensely if an
attack is particularly wounding
because I think, well, if they attack one
personally, it means they have not a
single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher
The most courageous act is still to think
for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel
He that does you a very ill turn will
never forgive you.
English Proverb
If you judge people, you have no time to
love them.
Mother Teresa
We are constantly in quest of more
wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom,
which deals with beginnings, remains
locked in a seed. There it lies, the
simplest fact of the universe and at the
same time the one which calls forth
faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland, The Certainty
I am thankful for all the hard times I've
been through and all the tears I've cried
because that has put me as closer to
God and made me the strong woman I
am today!
Angela Merkel
You'll be old and you never lived, and
you kind of feel silly to lie down and die
and to never have lived, to have been a
job chaser and never have lived.
Gertrude Stein, Brewsie and
Willie
Being prime minister is a lonely job. In
a sense, it ought to be: you cannot lead
from the crowd.
Margaret Thatcher
That's my first lesson as a teacher:
teach those that want to learn. The
reason doesn't matter.
Paulo Coelho, The Witch of
Portobello
The best colour in the whole world is
the one that looks good on you.
Coco Chanel
Service to others is the rent you pay for
your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali
Historically, the most terrible
things'war, genocide, and slavery'have
resulted not from disobedience, but
from obedience.
Howard Zinn
The most important question in the
world is, 'Why is the child crying? '
Alice Walker
The young always have the same
problem'how to rebel and conform at
the same time. They have solved this by
defying their parents and copying one
another.
Quentin Crisp
The hardest thing to learn in life is
which bridge to cross and which to
burn.
David Russell
Burn the libraries, for all their value is
in the Koran.
Caliph Omar
Everybody gets so much information
all day long that they lose their
common sense.
Gertrude Stein, Reflections on
the Atom Bomb (1946)
There is no humiliation for humility.
Joseph Roux, Meditations of a
Parish Priest
The world is so tough and can break us
in so many ways But all you can do
about hell is last through it. If you can
last through it. And you have to. Or at
least I always will I guess. [I am] very
prejudiced against suicide and the real
reason for not committing suicide is
because you always know how swell
life gets again after the hell is over.
Ernest Hemingway in a letter
to Isidor Schneider in October
1926
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another What!
You, too? I thought I was the only one.
C. S. Lewis
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another What!
You, too? I thought I was the only one.
C. S. Lewis
Constant success shows us but one side
of the world. For as it surrounds us
with friends who will tell us only our
merits, so it silences those enemies from
whom alone we can learn our defects.
Charles Caleb Colton
We understand death for the first time
when he puts his hand upon one whom
we love.
Germaine de Staël
The one who follows the crowd will
usually get no further than the crowd.
The one who walks alone is likely to
find himself in places no one has ever
been.
Albert Einstein
Our chief enemy is our own unruly
nature and the dark forces pent up
within us.
Ernest Jones
The first test of a truly great person is
humility.
John Ruskin, Modern Painters
Learn what you are and be such.
Pindar, Odea
You have not converted a man because
you have silenced him.
John Morley
Each man must look to himself to teach
him the meaning of life. It is not
something discovered: it is something
molded.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery,
Wind, Sand and Stars
Go to your bosom: Knock there, and
ask your heart what it doth know.
William Shakespeare, Measure
for Measure
Watch your thoughts, for they will
become actions. Watch your actions,
for they'll become habits. Watch your
habits for they will forge your
character. Watch your character, for it
will make your destiny.
Margaret Thatcher
Our firm conviction is that, sooner or
later, capitalism will give way to
socialism.
Nikita Khrushchev
Would that I could discover truth as
easily as I can uncover falsehood.
Cicero, De Natura Deoram
Whenever you propose to consult with
anyone about your affairs, first observe
how he has managed his own; for he
who has shown poor judgment in
conducting his own business will never
give wise counsel about the business of
others.
Isocrates
Humility neither falls far, nor heavily.
Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings
In order to be irreplaceable one must
always be different.
Coco Chanel
Go often to the house of thy friend, for
weeds choke the unused path.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton
was the one who asked why.
Bernard Baruch
He who has the confidence in himself
will lead the rest.
Horace
Nothing is more humiliating than to see
idiots succeed in enterprises we have
failed at.
Gustave Flaubert
If nobody ever said anything unless he
knew what he was talking about, a
ghastly hush would descend upon the
earth.
Alan Herbert
I have noticed that nothing I have never
said, did me any harm.
Calvin Coolidge
Pray that success will not come any
faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard
When we are born we cry that we are
come to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare
To win without risk is to triumph
without glory.
Pierre Corneille, Le Cid
When a man gets up in the world,
people want to down him; when he gets
down in the world, people want to help
him.
Edgar Watson Howe
Some men succeed by what they know;
some by what they do; and a few by
what they are.
Elbert Hubbard
Scholars at Duke University studied
11,600 forecasts by corporate chief
financial officers about how the
Standard & Poor's 500-stock index
would perform over the next year. The
correlation between their estimates and
the actual index was less than zero.
David Brooks, The New York
Times, October 23, 2012
A friend cannot be known in
prosperity: and an enemy cannot be
hidden in adversity.
The Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus
6:14
What you cannot see in the world is far
more powerful than anything you can
see.
T. Harv Eker
If you want to awaken all of humanity,
then awaken all of yourself. If you want
to eliminate the suffering in the World,
then eliminate all that is dark and
negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest
gift you have to give is that of your own
self-transformation.
Lao Tzu
Who takes the child by the hand, takes
the mother by the heart.
James Ross
Leonardo was painting [the Mona Lisa]
as a universal work for himself and for
eternity He kept it with him until he
died, sixteen years after he began. Over
that period, he added thin layer after
layer of little glaze strokes as he
perfected it, retouched it, and imbued it
with new depths of understanding
about humans and nature.
Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da
Vinci
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of
Life's longing for itself.
Kahill Gibran, The Prophet
We may stop ourselves when going up,
never when going down.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing fails like success because we
don't learn from it. We learn only from
failure.
Kenneth Boulding
The Mona Lisa became the most
famous painting in the world because
viewers were able to feel an emotional
engagement with her Most
miraculously, she seems
aware'conscious'both of us and of
herself. That is what makes her seem
alive, the most alive of any portrait
ever painted. It is also what makes her
unique, one of human-kinds
unsurpassed creations.
Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da
Vinci
Leonardo was masterful at conveying,
moti dell'anima, motions of the soul. 'A
picture of human figures ought to be
done in such a way as that the viewer
may easily recognize, by means of their
attitudes, the intentions of their minds, '
he wrote. The Last Supper is the
grandest and most vibrant example of
this in the history of art.
Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da
Vinci
You raise your voice when you should
reinforce your argument.
Samuel Johnson
Because of his compassion, a man can
become courageous. Because of his
economy, a man may become generous.
Because of his humility, a man can
become a leader.
Laozi
Attention is the rarest and purest form
of generosity.
Simone Weil
I saw David through the stone, and I
simply chipped away everything that
was not David.
Michelangelo
In the Zen view, emptiness is a symbol
of inexhaustible spirit.
Matthew E. May
We are continually faced with a series
of great opportunities brilliantly
disguised as insoluble problems.
John Gardner
An era can be said to end when its basic
illusions are exhausted.
Arthur Miller
Winning can make folks confident or it
can make them cautious.
Louis L'mour, Galloway
If we suspect that a man is lying, we
should pretend to believe him; for then
he becomes bold and assured, lies more
vigorously, and is unmasked.
Arthur Schopenhauer
What experience and history teach is
this'that people and governments never
have learned anything from history, or
acted upon any lessons they might have
drawn from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Hegel, Lectures on the
Philosophy of History
It is impossible for a man to be cheated
by anyone but himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He played the King in the game of life.
But someone played the ace.
Gerald Barzan
No grand idea was ever born in a
conference, but a lot of foolish ideas
have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whoever expects to be ignorant and
free in a state of civilization expects
what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson
Treasury Secretary Mellon argued
after the '29 crash that the best policy
was to 'liquidate labor, liquidate stocks,
liquidate the farmers, liquidate real
estate It will purge the rottenness out of
the system People will work harder, live
a more moral life. Values will be
adjusted, and enterprising people will
pick up the wrecks from less competent
people."
Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of
Finance: The Bankers Who
Broke the World
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our
lives searching for a magic door and a
lost kingdom of peace.
Eugene O'Neill, More Stately
Mansions (1964)
There is no humiliation for humility.
Joseph Roux, Meditations of a
Parish Priest
Talent hits a target that no one else can
hit. Genius hits a target no one else can
see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Just remember the world is not a
playground but a schoolroom. Life is
not a holiday but an education. One
eternal lesson for us all: to teach us
how better we should love.
Barbara Jordan
I have no special talents, I am just
passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
Very frequently it is not the man who is
so brilliant who delivers in time of
stress and strain, but rather the man
who can keep on going indefinitely,
doing a good straightforward job.
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
The aim of marketing is to know and
understand the customer so well the
product or service fits him and sells
itself.
Peter F. Drucker
I look at a stonecutter hammering
away at his rock perhaps a hundred
times without as much as a crack
showing in it. Yet at the hundred and
first blow it will split in two, and I
know it was not that blow that did it,
but all that had gone before.
Jacob Riis
As I look back upon my life, I see that
every part of it was a preparation for
the next. The most trivial of incidents
fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic
in a preconceived design.
Margaret Sanger
The size of Operation Barbarossa
dwarfs everything else in the history of
warfare. Within a day, German attacks
had demolished one-quarter of the
Soviet air force. Within four months,
the Germans had occupied 600,000
square miles of Russian soil, captured 3
million Red Army troops, butchered
countless Jews and other civilians, and
closed to within 63 miles of Moscow.
But four months after that, more than
200,000 Wehrmacht troops had been
killed, 726,000 wounded, 400,000
captured and another 113,000 had been
incapacitated by frostbite.
Andrew Roberts, The Storm of
War: A New History of the
Second World War
[Leonardo da Vinci's] curiosity
impelled him to become among the
handful of people in history who tried
to know all there was to know about
everything that could be known.
Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da
Vinci
[Leonardo da Vinci's] insatiable
curiosity, his restless leaps from one
subject to another, have been
harmonized in a single work [Mona
Lisa]. The science, the pictorial skill, the
obsession with nature, the
psychological insights are all there, and
so perfectly balanced that at first we
are hardly aware of them.
Kenneth Clarke on the Mona
Lisa
This is the heart of Leonardo's
philosophy: the replication and
relationships of the patterns of nature,
from the cosmic to the human.
Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da
Vinci
So the world's most famous smile is
inherently and fundamentally elusive,
and therein lies Leonardo ultimate
realization about human nature. His
expertise was in depicting the outer
manifestation of inner emotions. But
here in the Mona Lisa he shows
something more important: that we
can never fully know true emotion from
outer manifestations. There is always a
sfumato quality to other people's
emotions, always a veil.
Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da
Vinci
Men of lofty genius sometimes
accomplish the most when they work
least, for their minds are occupied with
their ideas and the perfection of their
conceptions, to which they afterwards
give form.
Leonardo to Duke Ludovico on
why he sometimes only made
one stroke a day on The Last
Supper
[Mona Lisa] was painted in a way to
make every brave artist tremble and
lose heart.
Giorgio Vasari
When you want to make a portrait, do
it in dull weather, or as evening falls.
Note in the streets, as evening falls, the
faces of the men and women, and when
the weather is dull, what softness and
delicacy you may perceive in them.
Leonardo da Vinci
What began as a portrait of a silk
merchant's young wife became a quest
to portray the complexities of human
emotion, made memorable through the
mysteries of a hinted smile, and to
connect our nature to that of our
universe. The landscape of her soul and
of nature's soul are intertwined.
Walter Isaacson on the Mona
Lisa
If you're doing something the same
way you have been doing it for ten
years, the chances are you are doing it
wrong.
Charles F. Kettering
Prudent men are wont to say'and this
not rashly or without good ground'that
he who would foresee what has to be
should reflect on what has been, for
everything that happens in the world at
any time has a genuine resemblance to
what happened in ancient times.
Niccolò Machiavelli
In war, there are no unwounded
soldiers.
José Narosky
Of each particular thing, ask: 'What is
it in itself, in its own construction? '
Marcus Aurelius
You shall have joy, or you shall have
power, said God; you shall not have
both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Journals
We often do good in order to
accomplish evil with impunity.
François de La
Rochefoucauld
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is
known. For a man by nothing is so well
betrayed, as by his manners.
Edmund Spencer
The possession of unlimited power will
make despot of almost any man. There
is a possible Nero in the gentlest human
creature that walks.
Thomas Bailey Alrich, Leaves
from a Notebook
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity
is greater.
William Hazlitt, On the
Conversation of Lords
As the happiness of the people is the
sole end of government, so the consent
of the people is the only foundation of it.
John Adams, proclamation
What is needed is a realization that
power without love is reckless and
abusive, and love without power is
sentimental and anemic. Power at its
best is love implementing the demands
of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
We thought, because we had power we
had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benét,
Litany for Dictatorships
If [we are] to emerge from this
relentless struggle with the unforeseen,
two qualities are indispensable: First,
an intellect that, even in the darkest
hour, retains some glimmerings of the
inner light which leads to truth; and
second, the courage to follow this faint
light wherever it may lead.
Karl von Clausewitz
Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The definition of genius is that it acts
unconsciously; and those who have
produced immortal works have done so
without knowing how or why.
William Hazlitt, Whether
Genius Is Conscious of Its
Power?
It is our choices that show what we
truly are, far more than our abilities.
J.K. Rowling
Only a fool would try to compress a
hundred centuries into a hundred pages
of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.
Will and Ariel Durant in the
introduction of their classic,
The Lessons of History
Genius is the ability to put into effect
what is in your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-
Up
Fortune is the creature of her own
caprices, choosing to broadcast the
fame of one person while leaving that
of another in darkness, without any
regard for the scale of what they might
both have achieved.
Gaius Sallustius Crispus
From fanaticism to barbarism is only
one step.
Denis Diderot
Knowledge can be communicated, but
not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be
fortified by it, do wonders through it,
but one cannot communicate and teach
it.
Hermann Hesse
If you ask what is the first step in the
way of truth? I answer humility. If you
ask, what is the second? I say humility.
If you ask, what is the third? I answer
the same'humility.
Antony C. Sutton
Read over your composition, and when
you meet a passage which you think is
particularly fine, strike it out.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
I've learned that people will forget
what you said, people will forget what
you did, but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
There is a foolish corner in the brain of
the wisest person.
Aristotle
Nothing is more obstinate than a
fashionable consensus.
Margaret Thatcher
It takes a great deal of courage to stand
up to your enemies, but even more to
stand up to your friends.
J.K. Rowling
Avarice in old age, is foolish; for what
can be more absurd than to increase
our provisions for the road, the nearer
we approach to our journey's end?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
That person travels the longest journey
that undertakes it in search of a sincere
friend.
Ali ibn-abi-Talib
The world will never be in any manner
of order or tranquility until people are
firmly convinced that conscience, honor
and credit are all in one interest.
Sir Richard Steele
The farther one goes, the less one
knows.
Tao Te Ching
Never does a person portray his own
character more vividly than in his
manner of portraying another.
Jean Paul Richter
We cannot freely and wisely choose the
right way for ourselves unless we know
both good and evil.
Helen Keller
After crosses and losses people grow
humbler and wise.
Benjamin Franklin
The worst people are those who will not
forgive.
Thomas Fuller, M.D.,
Gnomelogia
The personal and the political are today
in perfect alignment. Virtually all U.S.
senators, and most of the
representatives in the House, are
members of the top 1 percent when they
arrive, are kept in office by money from
the top 1 percent, and know that if they
serve the top 1 percent well they will be
rewarded by the top 1 percent when
they leave office.
Joseph Stiglitz, Vanity Fair 'Of
the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%'
In my whole life, I've known no wise
person over a broad subject matter
area who didn't read all the time'none,
zero. Now I know all kinds of shrewd
people who by staying within a narrow
area can do very well without reading.
But investment is a broad area You'd be
amazed at how much Warren [Buffett]
reads. You'd be amazed at how much I
read.
Charlie Munger, Vice
Chairman, Berkshire
Hathaway
In a democratic society the existence of
large centers of private power is
dangerous to the continuing vitality of
a free people.
Louis Brandeis
Be not angry that you cannot make
others as you wish them to be, since you
cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas á Kempis
If a political party does not have its
foundation in the determination to
advance a cause that is right and that is
moral, then it is not a political party; it
is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
And he that lives to live forever never
fears dying.
William Penn
Moral principle is a looser bond than
pecuniary interest.
Abraham Lincoln
The most ferocious animals are
disarmed by caresses to their young.
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
There is no purifier like knowledge in
this world: time makes man find
himself in his heart.
Bhagavad Gita
God put self-pity by the side of despair
like the cure by the side of the disease.
Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-
1943
The less power a man has, the more he
likes to use it.
J. Petit-Senn
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it
is in the minds of men that the defenses
of peace must be constructed.
UNESCO Constitution
A laugh to be joyous must flow from a
joyous heart, for without kindness there
can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle
Go into the street, and give one man a
lecture on morality, and another a
shilling, and see which will respect you
most.
Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life
of Samuel Johnson
It is in the very nature of power that it
will expand until it is checked by an
opposite power.
George Washington
He was like a cock who thought the sun
had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot
It is hard to change Gods.
Fyodor Mikhailovich
Dostoevsky, The Possessed
Out of all-inclusive, unconditional
compassion comes the healing of all
mankind.
Dr. David Hawkins
When people are free to do as they
please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
No author is a man of genius to his
publisher.
Henrich Heine
The most savage controversies are
those about matters as to which there is
no good evidence either way.
Bertrand Russell
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees'as
brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
John Dryden
A collection of anecdotes and maxims is
the greatest treasure for a man of the
world'as long as he knows how to
weave the former into apposite points
of the course of the conversation, and to
recall the latter on fitting occasions.
Goethe
I tumbled to the fact that my
organization had been attracting all the
sadists in Germany and Austria
without my knowledge for some time
past. It had also been attracting
unconscious sadists, i.e. men who did
not know themselves that they had
sadist leanings until they took part in a
flogging. And finally it had been
actually creating sadists. For it seems
that corporal chastisement ultimately
arouses sadistic leanings in apparently
normal men and women.
Rudolf Diels, Head of the
Gestapo 1933-1934
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
Carl Sandburg
He who is slow in promising is always
the most faithful in performing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If there is anything we wish to change
in the child, we should first examine it
and see whether it is not something that
could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung
You can't depend on your judgment
when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
No disguise can long conceal love
where it is, nor feign it where it is not.
François de La
Rochefoucauld
No man should bring children into the
world who is unwilling to persevere to
the end in their nature and education.
Plato
Treasure the people, then the land, and
the ruler least of all.
Meng Ke
Sudden events cannot be handled by the
unprepared mind.
Mo Di
David Buss of the University of Texas
asked his students if they had ever
thought seriously about killing
someone, and if so, to write out their
homicidal fantasies in an essay. He was
astonished to find that 91 percent of the
men and 84 percent of the women had
detailed, vivid homicidal fantasies. He
was even more astonished to learn how
many steps some of his students had
taken toward carrying them out.
David Brooks, The New York
Times March 20, 2012
Banking may well be a career from
which no man really recovers.
John Kenneth Galbraith
In order to act wisely it is not enough to
be wise.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We pay a high price for being
intelligent. Wisdom hurts.
Euripides
Everyone complains of his memory,
and nobody complains of his judgment.
François de La
Rochefoucauld
Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured
reputation.
Thomas R. Dewar
If my theory of relativity is proven
successful, Germany will claim me as a
German and France will declare that I
am a citizen of the world. Should my
theory prove untrue, France will say I
am a German and Germany will
declare that I am a Jew.
Albert Einstein
We do not receive wisdom, we must
discover it for ourselves, after a journey
through the wilderness which no one
else can make for us, which no one can
spare us, for our wisdom is the point of
view from which we come at last to
regard the world.
Marcel Proust
It is not enough that you form, and
even follow the most excellent rules for
conducting yourself in the world; you
must, also, know when to deviate from
them, and where lies the exception.
Fulke Greville
There is nothing more difficult to take
in hand, more perilous to conduct, or
more uncertain in its success than to
take the lead in the introduction of a
new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Rid oneself of trivial knowledge and the
greater knowledge will be plain to see.
Zhuang Zhou
Who is wise? He that learns from
everyone. Who is powerful? He that
governs his passions. Who is rich? He
that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
Intellectual growth should commence
at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein
You can't escape the responsibility of
tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln
Every man of courage is a man of his
word.
Pierre Corneille
A stout man's heart breaks bad luck.
Miguel de Cervantes
Everything that irritates us about
others can lead us to an understanding
of ourselves.
Carl Jung
Children are the living messages we
send to a time we will not see.
John W. Whitehead
Hope is brightest when it dawns from
fears.
Walter Scott
In the little world in which children
have their existence, whosoever brings
them up, there is nothing so finely
perceived and finely felt as injustice.
Charles Dickens
Truth came to market but could not be
sold; however, we buy lies with ready
cash.
West African saying
The world is a stage, but the play is
badly cast.
Oscar Wilde
All of the animals except man know
that the principal business of life is to
enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
Man is not the sum of what he has but
the totality of what he does not yet
have, of what he might have.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Man spends his life in reasoning on the
past, in complaining of the present, in
fearing for his future.
Antoine Rivarol
Failure is the only opportunity to begin
again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
There is no escape'man drags man
down, or man lifts man up.
Booker T. Washington
This is the mark of a really admirable
man: steadfastness in the face of
trouble.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
There is no fear without some hope,
and no hope without some fear.
Baruch Spinoza
You cannot run away from weakness.
You must sometimes fight it out or
perish; and if that be so, why not now,
and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Those with deep cravings are shallow
in spirit.
Zhuang Zhou
All genuine knowledge originates in
direct experience.
Mao Tse-tung
Although the world is full of suffering, it
is also full of overcoming it.
Helen Keller
A mature person is one who does not
think only in absolutes, who is able to
be objective even when deeply stirred
emotionally, who has learned that there
is both good and bad in all people and
all things, and who walks humbly and
deals charitably with the circumstances
of life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The universe possesses a great beauty
that is unspsoken, the four seasons have
virtues that go undiscussed and nature
has logic that is not mentioned. For this
reason the Magi exist in inaction and
sages do not act but follow the course of
nature.
Zhungzi
I never give them hell. I just tell the
truth and they think it's hell.
Harry S. Truman
The best time to make friends is before
you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
Risk comes from not knowing what
you're doing.
Warren Buffett
Light seems brighter in the dark and
action is discerned more clearly in
tranquility.
Su Shi
The individual activity of one man with
backbone will do more than a thousand
men with a mere wishbone.
William J.H. Boetcker
I have never seen a greater monster or
miracle in the world than myself.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The degree of one's emotion varies
inversely with one's knowledge of the
facts'the less you know, the hotter you
get.
Bertrand Russell
Oh wow! Oh wow! Oh wow!
Steve Jobs' last words, October
5, 2011
It is an old maxim of mine that when
you have excluded the impossible,
whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The more you simplify the more you
can manage.
Xunzi
We must, however, acknowledge, as it
seems to me, that man with all his noble
qualities still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Charles Darwin
The wise man does not set his mind
either for anything or against
anything; what is right, he will follow.
Confucius
Even as the high mountain-chains
remain immobile in the midst of the
tempest, so the true sage remains
unshaken amidst praise and blame.
The Dhammapada
A wise man does at once, what a fool
does at last.
Baltasar Gracian
Neither a wise man nor a brave man
lies down on the tracks of history to
wait for the train of the future to run
over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The wise man doubts often, and
changes his mind when needed.
Akhenton
Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell
me how much you get done.
James Ling
Everyone knows the use of the useful
but none the use of the useless.
Zhungzi
Do nothing and there is nothing that
cannot be done.
Lao Zi
Oh! It is excellent to have a giant's
strength; but it is tyrannous to use it
like a giant.
William Shakespeare
When a deep injury is done us, we
never recover until we forgive.
Alan Paton
It takes courage to live'courage and
strength and hope and humor. And
courage and strength and hope and
humor have to be bought and paid for
with pain and work and prayers and
tears.
Jerome P. Fleishman
Opinion is ultimately determined by the
feelings, and not by the intellect.
Herbert Spencer
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible
to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
If you want to make enemies, change
some things.
Woodrow Wilson
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Henry Louis Mencken
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to
himself, and nobody will repeat just
what he hears and no more.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The wise man knows nothing if he
cannot benefit from his wisdom.
Cicero
Nothing is safe that does not show it
can bear discussion and publicity.
Lord Acton
Two may talk and one may hear, but
three cannot take part in a
conversation of the most sincere and
searching sort.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you compromise with your own
conscience, you will weaken your
conscience. Soon your conscience will
fail to guide you and you never will
have real wealth based on peace of
mind.
Napoleon Hill
When nothing can be done about the
way things are, the wise stop worrying
about the situation.
Lao Tzu
If I have said something to hurt a man
once, I shall not get the better of this by
saying many things to please him.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
There is no such thing as conversation.
It is an illusion. There are intersecting
monologues, that is all.
Dame Rebecca West
Great talents are the most lovely and
often the most dangerous fruits on the
tree of humanity. They hang upon the
most slender twigs that are easily
snapped off.
Carl Jung
The keenest sorrow is to recognize
ourselves as the sole cause of all our
adversities.
Sophocles
The art of being wise is the art of
knowing what to overlook.
William James
No man will ever bring out of the
presidency the reputation which carries
him into it.
Thomas Jefferson
Try to understand and remember that
a person always tries to do what is best
for himself. And if he is right when he
does the best thing for himself, it is
good; but if he is mistaken, it is bad,
because suffering will follow after such
mistakes. If you remember this, then,
you will never be upset by anybody,
you will never be an enemy to anybody.
Epictetus
To return to the root is to find the
meaning, but to pursue appearances is
to miss the source.
Seng Ts’an
Silence is the ultimate weapon of
power.
Charles de Gaulle
Whenever the cause of the people is
entrusted to professors it is lost.
Nikolai Lenin
Over the last century, the faith in
progress has suffered many blows,
perhaps none so devastating as
Friedrich Nietzsche’s early and
devastating critique. Nietzsche believed
that delusions about never-ending
progress toward an unattainable
standard had become a root malady of
the Western psyche. This delusion, he
believed, constituted a cruel vehicle of
self-loathing, a spawning ground for
hypocrisy, and a cage around the
authentic human spirit.
William Strauss and Neil
Howe, The Fourth Turning
On speech-making: “Be sincere; be
brief; be seated.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
One truth stands firm. All that happens
in world history rests on something
spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it
creates world history. If it is weak, it
suffers world history.
Albert Schweitzer
It was the nation and the race dwelling
all round the globe that had the lion’s
heart. I had the luck to be called upon to
give the roar.
Winston Churchill
Leadership: the art of getting someone
else to do something you want done
because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful
life is to forgive everybody everything
every night before you go to bed.
Ann Landers
Checking the results of a decision
against its expectations shows
executives what their strengths are,
where they need to improve, and where
they lack knowledge or information.
Peter Drucker
None but a coward dares to boast that
he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Marshall Foch
If you took our top fifteen decisions out,
we'd have a pretty average record. It
wasn't hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot
of patience. You stuck to your principles
and when opportunities came along,
you pounced on them with vigor.
Charlie Munger, Vice
Chairman Berkshire
Hathaway
A writer is congenitally unable to tell
the truth and that is why we call what
he writes fiction.
William Faulkner
We live on a hunk of rock that circles a
humdrum star that is one of 400 billion
that make up the Milky Way galaxy one
of billions of other galaxies. That is a
perspective on human life and our
culture that's well worth pondering.
Carl Sagan
We are generally the better persuaded
by the reasons we discover ourselves
than by those given to us by others.
Blaise Pascal
In science, the credit goes to the man
who convinces the world, not to the
man to whom the idea first occurs.
Sir William Osler
The louder he talked on his honor, the
faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one gossips about other people's
secret virtues
Bertrand Arthur William
Russell
The system needs a hegemon. It was
Britain for a very long time. It moved
to the US quickly. We are left with a
world that doesn't quite have an anchor
country, or a hegemon or whatever you
want to call it, unless things change in
the US.
Stanley Fischer, Vice Chairman
Federal Reserve (August 6,
2017)
The strong calm man is always loved
and revered. He is like a shade-giving
tree in a thirsty land, or a sheltering
rock in a storm.
James Allen
Lack of loyalty is one of the major
causes of failure in every walk of life.
Napoleon Hill
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that
from so much death, so much sacrifice
and ruin, so much heroism [WWII], a
greater and better humanity shall not
emerge.
Charles de Gaulle
To write it, it took three months; to
conceive it three minutes; to collect the
data in it, all my life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you have a garden and a library, you
have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The boom, not the slump, is the right
time for austerity at the Treasury.
John Maynard Keynes
If you know the enemy and know
yourself, you need not fear the result of
a hundred battles. If you know yourself
but not the enemy, for every victory
gained you will also suffer a defeat. If
you know neither the enemy nor
yourself, you will succumb in every
battle.
Sun Tzu
When you are right no one remembers;
when you are wrong no one forgets.
Irish Proverb
The most common form of human
stupidity is forgetting what one is
trying to do.
Nietzsche
We are inclined to believe those whom
we do not know because they have
never deceived us.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Say not you know another entirely, till
you have divided an inheritance with
him.
Johan Kasper Lavater
Before borrowing money from a friend
decide which you need most.
American Proverb
Every generation laughs at the old
fashions but religiously follow the new.
Henry David Thoreau
But all you can do about hell is last
through it. If you can last through it.
And you have to. Or at least I always
will I guess. [I am] very prejudiced
against suicide and the real reason for
not committing suicide is because you
always know how swell life gets again
after the hell is over.
Ernest Hemingway in a letter
to Isidor Schneider in October
1926
Trust your instinct to the end, though
you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I could, I would always work in
silence and obscurity, and let my efforts
be known by their results.
Emily Bronte
A runaway monk never speaks well of
his monastery.
Italian Proverb
Never, never, never believe any war
will be smooth and easy, or that anyone
who embarks on the strange voyage
can measure the tides and hurricanes
he will encounter. The statesman who
yields to war fever must realize that
once the signal is given, he is no longer
the master of policy but the slave of
unforeseeable and uncontrollable
events.
Winston Churchill
War is the province of chance. In no
other sphere of human activity must
such a margin be left for this intruder.
It increases the uncertainty of every
circumstance and deranges the course
of events.
Carl von Clausewitz
Deescalate by escalating.
An Orwellian doctrine that is a
pillar of Russian military
strategy
History is the memory of states.
Henry Kissinger
A statesman must wait until he hears
the steps of God sounding through
events, then leap up and grasp the hem
of His garment.
Otto von Bismarck
Heaven is above, earth is below, and
that in between heaven and earth is
called China. Those on the peripheries
are the foreign. The foreign belong to
the outer, while China belongs to the
inner.
Shi Jie, 'On the Middle
Kingdom,' 1040 CE
According to the law of nature one
rules whatever one can. We did not
make this law. We found it when we
came to power, and we shall leave it to
those who come after us.
Thucydides, Athenians to
Melians, 416 BCE
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin
Ah, if we only knew.
Chancelor Bethmann Hollweg
on the cause of WWI
The worst mistake which was ever
made in this world was the separation
of political science from ethics.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Kites rise highest against the wind'not
with it.
Winston Churchill
You should not live one way in private
and another in public.
Publilius Syrus
A woman's guess is much more
accurate than a man's certainty.
Rudyard Kipling
Those who dream by night in the dusty
recesses of their minds wake in the day
to find that all was vanity, but the
dreamers of the day are dangerous
men for they may act their dreams with
open eyes and make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence
The end of all our exploring will be to
arrive where we started and know the
place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
It was the rise of Athens and the fear
that this instilled in Sparta that made
war inevitable.
Thucydides
Money without brains is always
dangerous.
Napoleon Hill
The first requisite for success is the
ability to apply your physical and
mental energies to one problem
incessantly without growing weary.
Thomas Edison
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than
itself, but talent instantly recognizes
genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The ultimate result of shielding men
from the effects of folly is to fill the
world with fools.
Herbert Spencer
Most of the important things in the
world have been accomplished by the
people who have kept on trying when
there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
I have many faults, but being wrong
ain't one of them.
Jimmy Hoffa
The real impetus to sales [of Harry
Potter books] was one child telling
another about it'playground marketing
if you like.
Nigel Newton, founder of
Bloomsbury's, J.K. Rowling's
publisher
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For
what each man wishes, that he also
believes to be true.
Demosthenes
When you are right you cannot be too
radical; When you are wrong, you
cannot be too conservative.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be damned by the devil is to be truly
blessed.
Chinese Proverb
These dramatic performances were put
on once a year before the whole of the
Athenian citizen body, with the aim of
providing a continuous forum for the
discussion of the most profound moral
implications of politics, for the
Athenians believed that every political
action has moral consequences.
J. Rufus Fears, Life Lessons
from the Great Books
This is no time for making new
enemies.
Voltaire, on being asked to
renounce the Devil, on his
deathbed
It is better to live one day as a lion,
than a thousand days as a lamb.
Roman Proverb
What we call the beginning is often the
end. And to make an end is to make a
beginning. The end is where we start
from.
T. S. Eliot
For all those whose work has been our
concern, the work goes on, the cause
endures, the hope still lives, and the
dream shall never die.
Senator Edward 'Ted' M.
Kennedy
All my best thoughts were stolen by the
ancients.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the law supposes that, the law is a
ass'a idiot.
Mr. Bumble in Charles
Dickens', Oliver Twist
Virtue is one all over the world, and
there is only one faith, one conceivable
conduct of life, one manner of dying.
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
Make friends with pain, and you will
never be alone.
Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner
and creator of the Leadville
Trail 100
A man is not honest simply because he
never had a chance to steal.
Russian Proverb
Fiat justitia, et pereat mundus. Let
justice be done, though the world
perish.
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman
Emperor
The man who has begun to live more
seriously within begins to live more
simply without.
Ernest Hemingway
It is just as important to have studied
men, as to have studied books.
Baltasar Gracian
We do not know one-millionth of one
percent about anything.
Thomas Edison
Better than a thousand days of diligent
study is one day with a great teacher.
Japanese Proverb
If the end brings me out all right, what
is said against me won't amount to
anything. If the end brings me out
wrong, ten angels swearing I was right
would make no difference.
Abraham Lincoln
What would you attempt to do if you
knew you would not fail?
Robert Schuller
Many people fear nothing more terribly
than to take a position which stands out
sharply and clearly from the prevailing
opinion. The tendency of most is to
adopt a view that is so ambiguous that
it will include everything and so
popular that it will include everybody.
Not a few men who cherish lofty and
noble ideas hide them under a bushel
for fear of being called different.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Income twenty shillings a year,
expenditure nineteen and
sixpence'happiness. Income twenty
shillings a year, expenditure twenty
shillings and sixpence'misery.
Charles Dicken's Mr.
Micawber, David Copperfield
For a miracle or something miraculous
to be perfected, the first step is always
the faith of an individual in that
miracle. The naÑ?ve courage of
someone whose mind is closed to
reason may give a creative impulse
where the learned hesitate to tread.
Stefan Zweig, Shooting Stars
In religion and politics, people's beliefs
and convictions are in almost every
case gotten at second-hand, and
without examination, from authorities
who have not themselves examined the
questions at issue but have taken them
at second-hand from other non-
examiners, whose opinions about them
were not worth a brass farthing.
Mark Twain
It's no trick to fool a man who thinks
himself clever, but a plain, honest
man'that can be a challenge.
19th-century European
Diplomat
The achievement of one courageous
man will awaken the courage of an
entire generation.
Stefan Zweig, Magellan:
Pioneer of the Pacific
The meaning of prayer is that I want to
invoke that divinity in me.
Gandhi
The grave is the first stage of the
journey into eternity.
Muhammad
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is:
Be satisfied with your opinions and
content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
Only the supremely wise and the
abysmally ignorant do not change.
Confucius
I've reluctantly discarded the notion of
my continuing to manage the portfolio
after my death'abandoning my hope to
give new meaning to the term 'thinking
outside the box. '
Warren Buffett
Ask questions from your heart, and you
will receive answers from your heart.
Omaha Maxim
The only real rest comes when you are
alone with God.
Rumi
All wish to be learned but no one is
willing to pay the price.
Juvenal
Power may or may not corrupt but it
always reveals.
Robert Caro
Nations become great when their
leaders are just men; they fall and fade
when their just men pass away. Those
who are in power set an example, good
or bad, for the entire nation.
James Allen, English
Philosopher
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not
envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is
not easily angered, it keeps no record of
wrongs. Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth. It always
protects, always trusts, always hopes,
always perseveres. Love never fails.
1 Corinthians 13
When I go from hence; let this be my
parting word, that what I have seen is
unsurpassable.
Rabindranath Tagore,
Gitanjali
When great events are moving, one
must play a part in them.
Winston Churchill
Destiny makes its urgent way to the
mighty and those who do violent deeds.
It will be subservient for years on end
to a single man'Caesar, Alexander,
Napoleon'for it loves those elemental
characters that resemble destiny itself,
an element that is so hard to
comprehend.
Stefan Zweig, Shooting Stars
Prayer is not hearing yourself talk, but
being silent, staying silent and waiting
until you hear God.
Soren Kierkegaard
When it comes your time to die, be not
like those whose hearts are filled with
fear of death, so that when their time
comes they weep and pray for a little
more time to live their lives over again
in a different way. Sing your death
song and die like a hero going home.
Tecumseh
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we
didn't learn a lot today, at least we
learned a little, and if we didn't learn a
little, at least we didn't get sick, and if
we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let
us all be thankful.
Buddha
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
Benjamin Franklin
The principle work of life is love. And
one cannot love in the past or in the
future, one can only love in the present,
at the hour, at the minute.
Leo Tolstoy
Our prayers should be for blessings in
general, for God knows best what is
good for us.
Socrates
There is nothing to writing. All you do
is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway
When we understand that we cannot be
destroyed, we are liberated from fear.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The way to love anything is to realize
that it may be lost.
G.K. Chesterson
One has to face fear or forever run
from it.
Hawk
Love is the basis of human
understanding. Love others. If the love
is not returned examine yourself to see
what the trouble might be.
Confucius
Ultimately we know deeply that the
other side of every fear is a freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not
envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is
not easily angered, it keeps no record of
wrongs. Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth, always
hopes, always perseveres. Love never
fails.
The Apostle Paul
A superior man never loses his son's
love.
Japanese Proverb
To me, ideas are worth nothing unless
executed. They are just a multiplier.
Execution is worth millions.
Steve Jobs
The superior man, when resting in
safety, does not forget that danger may
come. When in a state of security he
does not forget the possibility of ruin.
When all is orderly, he does not forget
that disorder may come. Thus this
person is not endangered, and his
States and all their clans are preserved.
Confucius
In the war between falsehood and truth
falsehood wins the first battle and truth
the last.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Those who know the truth are not equal
to those who love it, and those who love
it are not equal to those who live it.
Confucius
He who has injured you was either
stronger or weaker than you. If
weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare
yourself.
Seneca
Neglect mending a small fault, and it
will soon be a great one.
Benjamin Franklin
The most unholy and savage animal is
a human being without virtue.
Aristotle
Even little things that you think no one
will ever know about will ultimately
become widely known. If you, yourself,
know something, then all the gods
(kami) of heaven and earth are also
aware of it.
Takuan Soho
We never fully grasp the importance of
any true statement until we have a
clear notion of what the opposite
untrue statement would be.
William James
Your net worth to the world is usually
determined by what remains after your
bad habits are subtracted from your
good ones.
Benjamin Franklin
Nations become great when their
leaders are just men; they fall and fade
when their just men pass away. Those
who are in power set an example, good
or bad, for the entire nation.
James Allen
Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert
To be afraid of death is nothing other
than seeming to be wise when one is
not. It is seeming to know what one
does not know. For no one knows
whether death happens to be the
greatest good of all for a person. But it
is feared as if one knows well that it is
the greatest of all evils.
Socrates
The task of the leader is to get his
people from where they are to where
they have not been.
Henry Kissinger
Love never dies a natural death. It dies
because we don't know how to
replenish its source. It dies of blindness
and errors and betrayals. It dies of
illness and wounds; it dies of
weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
Ana Nin
The only real mistake is the one from
which we learn nothing.
John Powell, The Secret of
Staying in Love
There is always a way to be honest
without being brutal.
Arthur Dobrin
There is neither happiness nor
unhappiness in this world; there is only
the comparison of one state with
another. Only a man who has felt
ultimate despair is capable of feeling
ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have
wished for death in order to know how
good it is to live the sum of all human
wisdom will be contained in these two
words: Wait and Hope.
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of
Monte Cristo
The sky is not less blue because the
blind man does not see it.
Danish Proverb
The first responsibility of a leader is to
define reality.
Max DePree, The Art of
Leadership
There are certain old truths which will
be true as long as this world endures.
Theodore Roosevelt
Not even the gods can undo what has
been done.
Plutarch
If the soul would give itself leisure to
take breath and return into itself, it
would be easy for it to draw from its
own depths the seeds of the true.
Seneca
It is the proof of a bad cause when it is
applauded by the mob.
Seneca
Friendship exists only between good
men, whereas the bad man never
achieves true friendship with either a
good or a bad man.
Socrates
If a man does not make new
acquaintances as he advances through
life, he will soon find himself left alone.
A man should keep his friendship in a
constant repair.
Samuel Jackson
The U-turn is a gift to the journalist in a
hurry: either the policy was wrong
before, or it is wrong now.
Tim Harford, Financial Times
May 26, 2017
How far that little candle throws his
beams! So shines a good deed in a
naughty world.
William Shakespeare
In nothing do men approach so nearly
the gods as in doing good to men.
Marcus Aurelius
The determining factor whether wives
feel satisfied with the sex, romance, and
passion in their marriage is, by 70
percent, the quality of the couple's
friendship. For men, the determining
factor is, by 70 percent, the quality of
the couple's friendship. So men and
women come from the same planet
after all.
John M. Gottman, Ph.D, The
Seven Principles for Making
Marriage Work
The young man knows the rules, but the
old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
He is no fool who gives what he cannot
keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot, He Is No Fool
Power is a poison, well known for
thousands of years. To the human being
who has faith in some force that holds
dominion over all of us and who is
therefore conscious of his own
limitations, power is not necessarily
fatal...But for those, however, who are
unaware of anyone Higher, power is a
deadly poison. For them there is no
antidote.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Flattery makes friends, truth enemies.
Spanish Proverb
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between
sunrise and sunset, two golden hours,
each set with sixty diamond minutes.
No reward offered, for they are gone
forever.
Horace Mann
Time will run back and fetch the age of
gold.
John Milton
Sages are the mirrors of God's Eternal
Wisdom Generation after generation
have gone into the dark, but the Divine
Attributes are changeless and eternal.
Rumi
Whatever failures I have known,
whatever errors I have committed,
whatever follies I have witnessed in
private and public life have been the
consequence of action without thought.
Bernard M. Baruch
We should often blush at our noblest
deeds if the world were to see all their
underlying motives.
François La Rochefoucauld
It is a first principle that in order to
improve yourself, you must first know
yourself.
Baltasar Gracian
A library may be regarded as the
solemn chamber in which a man may
take counsel with all who have been
wise and great and good, and glorious
among the men that have gone before
him.
George Dawson
If you get angry easily, it may be
because the seed of anger in you has
been watered frequently over many
years, and unfortunately you have
allowed it or even encouraged it to be
watered.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Write it on your heart that every day is
the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a magnet in your heart that
will attract true friends. That magnet is
unselfishness, thinking of others first
when you learn to live for others, they
will live for you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
You cannot make yourself feel
something you do not feel, but you can
make yourself do right in spite of your
feelings.
Pearl S. Buck
In the works of man as in those of
nature, what most deserves notice is his
intention.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[I'm] super ready, I mean I'm so
psyched. For me [climbing Everest] is
already a success.
Ueli Steck, the best mountain
climber in the world, who died
recently in a training foray
before he climbed Mount
Everest
It's a biological fact: men are more
easily overwhelmed by marital conflict
than are their wives.
John M. Gottman, Ph.D, The
Seven Principles for Making
Marriage Work
Regard your neighbor's gain as your
own gain, and your neighbor's loss as
your own loss.
Tai Shang Kan Ying P'ten
Do not rely on your present good
fortune; prepare for the year when it
may leave you.
Chinese Proverb
The season of failure is the best time for
sowing the seeds of success.
Paramahansa Yogananda
We can be knowledgeable with other
men's knowledge, but we can't be wise
with other men's wisdom.
Montaigne
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom
unfiltered through personal experience
does not become a part of the moral
issue.
Edith Wharton
If you want what fate wants, then
nothing can happen against your will.
Chuang Tsu
Teach him what has been said in the
past Speak to him, for there is none
born wise.
Ptah-Hotep
The best argument against democracy
is a five-minute conversation with the
average voter.
Winston Churchill
Even as the troubled surface of rolling
waters cannot properly reflect the full
moon, but only gives broken images of
it, so a mind troubled by the desires and
passions of the world cannot fully
reflect the light of the Ineffable.
Ramakrishna
Think of three things: whence you
came, where you are going, and to
whom you must account.
Benjamin Franklin
The mental disease of the present
generation is impatience of study,
contempt of the great masters of
ancient wisdom.
Samuel Johnson
The young man knows the rules, but the
old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
He is no fool who gives what he cannot
keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot, He is no Fool
It is the proof of a bad cause when it is
applauded by the mob.
Seneca
Power is a poison, well known for
thousands of years. If only no one were
ever able to acquire material power
over others. But to the human being
who has faith in some force that holds
dominion over all of us and who is
therefore conscious of his own
limitations, power is not necessarily
fatal...But for those, however, who are
unaware of anyone Higher, power is a
deadly poison. For them there is no
antidote.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Einstein continued to work hard at his
physics until the end. The curious thing
was, he worked in complete
disagreement with almost all of his
contemporaries.
C.P. Snow, New Statesman,
March 26, 1960
When you teach your son, you teach
your son's son.
Talmud Kidskin
Nothing that is worth doing can be
achieved in a lifetime. Therefore, we
must be saved by hope.
Reinhold Niebuhr
How simple and frugal a thing is
happiness: a glass of wine, a roast
chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the
sound of the sea All that is required to
feel that here and now is happiness is a
simple, frugal heart.
Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the
Greek (1946)
Money never made anyone rich.
Seneca
He knows not his own strength that
hath not met adversity.
Ben Johnson
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the
midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as
serpents, and harmless as doves.
Matthew 10:16
Dreams are the touchstones of our
character.
Henry David Thoreau
A father is a banker provided by
nature.
Louis Nizer
It is one life whether we spend it in
laughing or weeping.
Japanese Proverb
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
Helen Keller, The Simplest Way
to Be Happy
Those who understand only what can
be explained understand very little.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
E del mio vaneggiar vergogna è 'l
frutto e'l pentersi e'l conoscer
chiaramente che quanto piace al mondo
è breve sogno. (And the fruit of my
vanity is shame, and repentance, and
the clear knowledge that whatever the
world finds pleasing is but a brief
dream.)
Francesco Petrarch, Voi
ch'ascoltate in rime sparse il
suono
All that we love deeply becomes a part
of us.
Helen Keller
A fool spurns his father's discipline.
The Book of Proverbs
War is the business of barbarians.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Wall Street never changes, the pockets
change, the suckers change, the stocks
change, but Wall Street never changes,
because human nature never changes.
Jesse Livermore
What I see in Nature is a magnificent
structure that we can comprehend only
very imperfectly, and that must fill a
thinking person with a feeling of
humility. This is a genuinely religious
feeling that has nothing to do with
mysticism.
Albert Einstein
Humility makes great men twice
honorable.
Benjamin Franklin
It is the greatest art of the devil to
convince us he does not exist.
Baudelaire
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not
unto his riches but take away from his
desires.
Epicurus
The most powerful weapon on earth is
the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch
Most of the time common stocks are
subject to irrational and excessive price
fluctuations in both directions as the
consequence of the ingrained tendency
of most people to speculate or gamble
give way to hope, fear and greed.
Benjamin Graham
A fool spurns his father's discipline.
The Book of Proverbs
Few things are more dangerous than a
leader with an unexamined life.
John C. Maxwell
Once it was that a man could think of
the machine as serving him. Then a
time of paradox comes. The machine
itself demands to be served, for unless it
is served according to its own laws it
will be unable to perform its miracle.
Does it then enslave the man who
serves it? Henry Ford said no. The only
slave left on earth was man minus the
machine.
Garet Garrett, The Wild Wheel
War is the business of barbarians.
Napoleon Bonaparte
My strength is as the strength of ten
because my heart is pure.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
No stars gleam as brightly as those
which glisten in the polar sky. No water
tastes so sweet as that which springs
amid the desert sand. And no faith is so
precious as that which lives and
triumphs through adversity. Tested
faith brings experience. You would
never have believed your own
weakness had you not needed to pass
through trials. And you would never
have known God's strength had His
strength not been needed to carry you
through.
Charles Spurgeon
Perhaps I came too soon. I was a
painter of your generation more than
my own You are young, you have
vitality, you can imbue your art with a
force that only those with true feelings
can manage. As for me, I'm old. I won't
have time to express myself.
Cézanne, to a young artist in
1896, ten years before his death
Every country has the government it
deserves.
Joseph De Maistre
There is no pollution like hatred.
Buddha
Honor the sacred. Honor the Earth'our
Mother. Honor the Elders. Honor all
with whom we share the Earth; Four-
legged, two-legged, winged ones,
swimmers, crawlers, plant and rock
people. Walk in balance and beauty.
Native American Maxim
It is preoccupation with possessions,
more than anything else, that prevents
men from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
When the righteous triumph, there is
great elation; but when the wicked rise
to power, men go into hiding.
Solomon, Proverbs 28:12
A man's life, told truly, is a novel.
Ernest Hemingway, Death in
the Afternoon
True humanity is contentment. There is
no respect for others without humility
in one's self.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
It wasn't until quite late in life that I
discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't
know! '
William Somerset Maugham
There will be no cessation of evils for
the sons of men, till either those who
are pursuing a right and true
philosophy receive sovereign power, or
those in power by some dispensation of
providence become true philosophers.
Plato
Were we all, the whole upper crust of
Russian society, so totally insensitive,
so horribly obtuse, as not to feel that
the charmed life we were leading was
in itself an injustice and hence could not
possibly last?
Nicolas Nobokov, Bagázh:
Memoirs of a Russian
cosmopolitan
I solemnly swear that I will never make
peace so long as a single enemy
remains on Russian soil.
Traditional Oath, of the
Russian Czars
I discovered that the best innovation is
sometimes the company, the way you
organize a company.
Steve Jobs
We who lived in the concentration
camps can remember the men who
walked through the huts comforting
others, giving away their last piece of
bread. They may have been few in
number, but they offer sufficient proof
that everything can be taken from a
man but one thing: The last of his
freedoms'to choose one's attitude in any
given set of circumstances.
Viktor E. Frankl
If God does not exist, then everything is
permitted.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Adversity is a mirror that reveals one's
true self.
Chinese Proverb
Others have seen what is and asked
why. I have seen what could be and
asked why not.
Pablo Picasso
All sorrows can be borne if you put
them into a story or tell a story about
them.
Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa
No man can consider himself truly
married until he understands every
word his wife is not saying.
Lord Mancroft
The right word may be effective, but no
word was ever as effective as a rightly
timed pause.
Mark Twain
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a
man; to do all that one would like to do,
is to be a god.
Napoleon Bonaparte
We ought to do everything both
cautiously and confidently at the same
time.
Epictetus
And, behold, one came and said unto
him, Good Master, what good thing
shall I do, that I may have eternal
life?...Jesus said unto him, if thou wilt
be perfect, go and sell that thou hast,
and give it to the poor, and thou shalt
have treasure in heaven: and come and
follow me.
Matthew 19:16, 21
Real risk was not volatility; real risk
was stupid investment decisions.
Mike Burry as quoted by
Michael Lewis in The Big Short
Every organization must be prepared
to abandon everything it does to
survive in the future.
Peter Drucker, 1999
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your
life, a dichotomy in which you hate
what you do so you can have pleasure
in your spare time. Look for a situation
in which your work will give you as
much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso
The most useful piece of learning for the
uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes
Obstacles are those frightful things you
see when you take your eyes off your
goal.
Henry Ford
I know no safe depository of the
ultimate powers of the society but the
people themselves; and if we think them
not enlightened enough to exercise their
control with a wholesome discretion,
the remedy is not to take it from them,
but to inform their discretion by
educations.
Thomas Jefferson
Ten people who speak make more noise
than ten thousand who are silent.
Napolean Bonaparte
Victory is reserved for those willing to
pay its price.
Sun Tzu
I have learned this: it is not what one
does that is wrong, but what one
becomes as a consequence of it.
Oscar Wilde
When you see that in order to produce,
you need to obtain permission from
men who produce nothing; when you
see that money is flowing to those who
deal not in goods, but in favors; when
you see that men get rich more easily
by graft than by work, and your laws
no longer protect you against them, but
protect them against you you may
know that your society is doomed.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In
thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict,
be fair and generous. In governing,
don't try to control. In work, do what
you enjoy. In family life, be completely
present.
Lao Tzu
The universal power that manifests
itself in the universal law is at one with
our true power.
Kabundranath Tagore
Fear is man's greatest enemy, and it
manifests itself in forms as diverse as
shame, jealousy, anger, insolence,
arrogance What causes fear? Lack of
confidence in oneself.
Swami Prajnanpad
Death is nothing to us, since when we
are, death has not come, and when
death has come, we are not.
Epicurus
Consider how hard it is to change
yourself and you'll understand what
little chance you have in trying to
change others.
Jacob Morton Braude
There is no more important lesson to be
learned or habit to be formed than that
of right judgment and of delighting in
good characters and noble actions.
Aristotle
Fear is one of the greatest problems in
life. A mind that is caught in fear lives
in confusion, in conflict, and therefore
must be violent, distorted and
aggressive.
Krishnamati
A single conversation across the table
with a wise man is worth a month's
study of books.
Chinese Proverb
What mortals see are delusions. True
vision is detached from seeing.
Bodhidharma
Revenge is always the delight of a
mean spirit or a weak and petty mind.
Juvenal
The true way to be deceived is to think
oneself more clever than others.
François La Rochefoucauld
Nobody understands another's sorrow,
and nobody another's joy.
Franz Schubert
There is no man so friendless but what
he can find a friend sincere enough to
tell him disagreeable truths.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A great man is always willing to be
little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without strong affection, and humanity
of heart, and gratitude to that Being
whose code is mercy, and whose great
attribute is benevolence to all things
that breathe, true happiness can never
be attained.
Charles Dickens
When the legends die, the dreams end;
there is no more greatness.
Tecumseh
A man can stand a lot as long as he can
stand himself.
Axel Munthe
Pretend inferiority and encourage his
arrogance.
Sun Tzu
By nature we have no defect that could
not become a strength, nor strength
that could not become a defect.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The only measure of what you believe is
what you do. If you want to know what
people believe, don't read what they
write, don't ask what they believe, just
observe what they do.
Ashley Montagu
According to the teachers, there is only
one thing that all people possess
equally. This is their loneliness.
Hyemeyohsts Storm
If you want something done well, do it
yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Few there are who go to the Further
Shore, the rest only run about on the
bank.
The Dhammapada
Pride and prejudice are brothers.
Chinese Proverb
Let us remember that, as much has
been given us, much will be expected
from us, and that true homage comes
from the heart as well as from the lips,
and shows itself in deeds.
Theodore Roosevelt
When a person drowns himself in
negative thinking he is committing an
unspeakable crime against himself.
Maxwell Maltz
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the
longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it
sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie,
und grün des Lebens goldner Baum.
(Grey, my dearest friend, is the colour
of all theory, and green is the colour of
the golden tree of life.)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Finance, like time, devours its own
children.
Honoré de Balzac
Right is right, even if nobody does it.
Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is
wrong about it.
G.K. Chesterson
Forgive, son; men are men, they must
err.
Euripides
Die Geseize der Welt sind
Würfelspiele worden. (The laws of
the world have become games of dice.)
Friedrich von Schiller
It isn't quite the same thing to comment
on the bull ring and to be in the bull
ring.
Spanish Proverb
In the beginner's mind there are many
possibilities, but in the expert's there
are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
If all men knew what others say of
them, there would not be four friends in
the world.
Blaise Pascal
From the deepest desires often come the
deadliest hate.
Socrates
We must laugh at man to avoid crying
for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Della verità e del bene non si ride. Ecco
purché Cristo non rideva. Il riso è
fomite di dubbio. (One does not laugh
about truth or goodness. That is why
Christ never laughed. Laughter is a
case of doubt.)
Umberto Eco, The Name of the
Rose
The visionary lies to himself, the liar
only to others.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Weakness of attitude becomes
weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
Jobs said America's education system
was hopelessly antiquated and crippled
by union work rules. Until the teachers'
unions were broken, there was almost
no hope for education reform
Principals should be able to hire and
fire based on how good teachers are.
Schools should be open until at least 6
p.m. and be in session eleven months of
the year All books, learning materials,
and assessments should be digital and
interactive, tailored to each student and
providing feedback in real time.
Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
The best revenge is to be unlike him
who performed the injury.
Marcus Aurelius
There is no such thing as an
insignificant enemy.
Tom Peters
When you want to fool the world, tell
the truth.
Otto von Bismark
The soul is healed being with children.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Amor Fati''Love your fate ', which is, in
fact, your life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When I was young I observed that nine
out of every ten things I did were
failures, so I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw
Every part of the earth is sacred to my
people.
Chief Seattle
Those who know the storm dread the
calm before it.
Chinese Proverb
I have never met an unhappy giver.
George Adams
It is not the things we get, but the
hearts we touch, that will measure our
success in life.
Anonymous
Men are more easily governed through
their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A man should be careful never to tell
tales of himself to his own
disadvantage; people may be amused,
and laugh at the time, but they will be
remembered, and brought up against
him upon some subsequent occasion.
Samuel Johnson
The statesman can only wait and listen
until he hears the footsteps of God
resounding through events; then he
must jump up and grasp the hem of His
coat, that is all.
Otto von Bismarck
Everything about him was old except
his eyes and they were the same color
as the sea and were cheerful and
undefeated.
Ernest Hemingway, The Old
Man and the Sea.
First he sacrifices his health in order to
make money. Then he sacrifices money
to recuperate his health. And then he is
so anxious about the future that he does
not enjoy the present; the result being
that he does not live in the present or
the future; he lives as if he is never
going to die, and then dies having never
really lived.
Dalai Lama
If reality did not comport with his will,
he would ignore it, as he had done with
the birth of his daughter and would do
years later, when first diagnosed with
cancer. Even in small everyday
rebellions he acted as if he were not
subject to the strictures around him.
Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
When a man is wrong and won't admit
it, he always becomes angry.
Thomas Haliburton
The people who are most bigoted are
the people who have no convictions at
all.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
An idealist is a person who helps other
people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford
He wears a mask, and his face grows to
fit it.
George Orwell, Shooting an
Elephant
Only an idiot has no grief, only a fool
would forget it. What else is there in
this world sharp enough to stick to your
guts?
William Faulkner, The Sound
and the Fury
There is but an inch of difference
between the cushioned chamber and the
padded cell.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Wait for that wisest of all counselors,
Time.
Pericles
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark
side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain
Won't you come into the garden? I
would like my roses to see you.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Ernest Hemingway looked down at the
cuts and scars [on his hands] and said
proudly: 'Fisherman's hands ' I think he
expressed those two words with as
much pride as anything he said about
any of his books.
Irving Stone as told to Carlos
Baker
There is no logical path to these laws,
only intuition.
Albert Einstein, describing the
leaps that carried him to
relativity.
A man who would not love his father's
grave is worse than a wild animal.
Chief Joseph
Three things cannot be long hidden; the
sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha
Pride is often used to cover weakness.
Chinese Proverb
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
Chief Joseph
The secret of success lies not in doing
your own work, but in recognizing the
right man to do it.
Andrew Carnegie
While all other sciences have advanced,
that of government is at a
standstill'little better understood, little
better practiced now than three or four
thousand years ago.
John Adams
Everything in war is very simple. But
the simplest thing is difficult.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Are we witnessing the end of
globalization? I don't think so. It is the
end of the 'global elite, ' those who see
the world only from financial centers or
a website.
Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE
There must have been moments even
that afternoon when Daisy tumbled
short of his dreams'not through her
own fault, but because of the colossal
vitality of his illusion... It had gone
beyond her, beyond everything. He had
thrown himself into it with a creative
passion, adding to it all the time,
decking it out with every bright feather
that drifted his way. No amount of fire
or freshness can challenge what a man
can store up in his ghostly heart.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great
Gatsby
You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
So much has been given to me. I have
no time to ponder that which has been
denied.
Helen Keller
It takes a wise man to discover a wise
man.
Diogenes
One of the greatest disservices you can
do a man is to lend him money that he
can't pay back.
Jesse H. Jones
The best form of flattery is to master
the art of listening.
Chinese Proverb
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
Charles Dickens
Stocks outside the indices may be cast
adrift, no longer attached to the
valuation grid but increasingly off of it.
This should give long-term value
investors a distinct advantage. The
inherent irony of the efficient market
theory is that the more people believe in
it and correspondingly shun active
management, the more inefficient the
market is likely to become.
Seth A. Klarman, a letter to his
investors
We can compete with anybody in the
world. We build the best product[s]. But
we can't compete with the Bank of
Japan or the Japanese government.
Rep. Debbie Dingell, on
currency depreciation
engineered through QE
Whatever crushes individuality is
despotism, no matter what it's called.
John Stuart Mill
One who is too insistent on his own
views, finds few to agree with him.
Lao Tzu
It's ironic, for years there was a
drought and we never dreamed of
trying to keep water out of those
reservoirs.
National Weather Service
meteorologist Bob Cravec, USA
Today February 22, 2017, on
California droughts/floods
The election represents serious data
from the world. Sixty-three million
Americans were trying to get
Washington's attention.
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., The
Wall Street Journal February
22, 2017
A desk is a dangerous place from which
to view the world.
John le Carré
In every success story, you find
someone has made a courageous
decision.
Peter F. Drucker
One of life's most painful moments
comes when we must admit that we
didn't do our homework, that we are
not prepared.
Merlin Olson
I said to the man who stood at the gate
of the year 'Give me a light that I may
tread safely in the unknown. ' And he
replied, 'Go into the darkness and put
your hand into the hand of God. That
shall be to you better than light and
safer than a known way! '
King George IV in his 1939
Christmas message broadcast
on eve of WWII
The icon has a very special importance
in Russia. During the Tartar invasions,
when churches were burned and priests
massacred, the icon was small enough
to be hidden, and each household had
one. For hundreds of years these deeply
religious people came to see the icon as
a symbol of survival of the Russian
culture and Christianity.
Nelson De Mille, The Charm
School
When a man won't listen to his
conscience, it's usually because he
doesn't want advice from a stranger.
Lindsey Stewart
We do not care what we have, but we
cry when it is lost.
Russian Proverb
We get our parents when they are so
old it is hard to change their habits.
A little girl, writing in a school
essay, on her parents.
If we escape punishment for our vices,
why should we complain if we are not
rewarded for our virtues?
John Churton Collins
If you live life fully, you will die only
once. But if you are scared of every
step, fear will kill you day after day.
Paul Coelho
It is always the secure who are humble.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Knowledge will give you power, but
character respect.
Bruce Lee
Where justice is denied, where poverty
is enforced, where ignorance prevails,
and where any one class is made to feel
that society is an organized conspiracy
to oppress, rob and degrade them,
neither persons nor property will be
safe.
Frederick Douglass
Invincibility depends on one's self; the
enemy's vulnerability on him.
Sun Tzu
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford
Carelessness is a great enemy.
Japanese proverb
There is a best way to perform any
task.
Bruce Lee
The two most powerful warriors are
patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
Manufacturers since antiquity have
sought to reduce labor hours. The only
way more people are employed making
existing products is when demand
grows faster than the rate of declining
labor-hours per product'or when
engineers invent new products.
Mark P. Mills, The Wall Street
Journal
Nurture your mind with great
thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes
heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Instead of worrying, a strong man
wears a smile.
Japanese proverb
There are nine hundred and ninety-
nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous
man.
Henry David Thoreau
When you are in any contest, you
should work as if there were'to the very
last minute'a chance to lose it. This is
battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Dwight Eisenhower
He that falls by himself never cries.
Turkish proverb
In great affairs men show themselves
as they wish to be seen; in small things
they show themselves as they are.
Sebastian Roch Nicolas
Chamfort
A successful samurai should put his
heart in order first thing in the
morning and last thing at night.
The Hagakure
You can't get away from yourself by
moving from one place to another.
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun
Also Rises
Death is very likely the single best
invention of Life. It is Life's change
agent. It clears out the old to make way
for the new. Right now the new is you,
but someday not too long from now,
you will gradually become the old and
be cleared away. Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's
life. Don't be trapped by dogma'which
is living with the results of other
people's thinking. And most important,
have the courage to follow your heart
and intuition. They somehow already
know what you truly want to become.
Steve Jobs, Stanford
University, 2005
Great works are performed not by
strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Gold is the most valuable and most
easily marketable commodity in the
world and gold is virtually untraceable.
If gold bars have Mint marks stamped
on them the marks can be shaved off or
the bar can be melted down and made
into a new bar. That makes it almost
impossible to check on the whereabouts
of gold, or its origins or its movements
round the world
Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
Coincidence is God's way of remaining
anonymous.
Albert Einstein
So live your life that the fear of death
can never enter your heart.
Tecumseh
So it is said that if you know your
enemies and know yourself, you will
not be put at risk even in a hundred
battles; if you only know yourself, but
not your opponent, you may win or
may lose.
Sun Tzu
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not
ignorance. It is the illusion of
knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
The secret of all victory lies in the
organization of the non-obvious.
Marcus Aurelius
It is not once nor twice but times
without number that the same ideas
make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle
Many of you have already found out
and others will find out in the course of
their lives that truth eludes us if we do
not concentrate with total attention on
its pursuit Also, truth is seldom
pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
People are usually more convinced by
reasons they discovered themselves
than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal
I shall argue that strong men,
conversely, know when to compromise
and that all principles can be
compromised to serve a greater
principle.
Andrew Carnegie
The best way to find out if you can trust
somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
Who had deceived thee so often as
thyself?
Benjamin Franklin
The longer the explanation the bigger
the lie.
Chinese Proverb
OWE, n. To have (and to hold) a debt.
The word formerly signified not
indebtedness, but possession; it means
"own," and in the minds of debtors
there is still a good deal of confusion
between assets and liabilities.
Ambrose Bierce The Devil's
Dictionary
This is what is hardest: to close the
open hand because one loves.
Friedrich Nietsche
During times of universal deceit, telling
the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Until one is committed, there is
hesitancy, the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness. Concerning all
acts of initiative (and creation), there is
one elementary truth (the ignorance of
which kills countless ideas and splendid
plans). That is the moment one
definitely commits oneself, then
Providence moves too. Boldness has
genius, power and magic to it. Begin it
now.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No person who is enthusiastic about his
work has anything to fear from life.
Samuel Goldwyn
Here's a thousand Turkish pounds,
James. Their real value, and their rate
on the black market, is about twenty to
the pound. The official rate is seven.
Ever since Croesus, the first millionaire,
invented gold coins, money has
depreciated. And the face of the coin
has been debased as fast as its value.
First the faces of gods were on the
coins. Then the faces of kings. Then of
presidents. Now there's no face at all.
Today it's only paper, with a picture of
a public building and the signature of a
cashier.
Ian Fleming, From Russia With
Love
When an ordinary man attains
knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage
attains understanding, he is an
ordinary man.
Zen saying
Originality and the feeling of one's own
dignity are achieved only through work
and struggle.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
As if you could kill time without
injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb
Let a wise man blow off the impurities
of himself, as a smith blows off the
impurities of silver, one by one, little by
little, and from time to time.
Buddha
When you are courting a nice girl an
hour seems like a second. When you sit
on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like
an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
Governments never learn.Only people
learn.
Milton Friedman
And it never failed that during the dry
years the people forgot about the rich
years, and during the wet years they
lost all memory of the dry years.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the
slowest of all growths. No man or
woman really knows what perfect love
is until they have been married a
quarter of a century.
Mark Twain
There are some experiences in life
which should not be demanded twice
from any man, and one of them is
listening to the Brahms Requiem.
George Bernard Shaw
The fabled musk deer searches the
world over for the source of the scent
which comes from itself.
Ramakrishna
One fool can ask more questions than a
dozen wise men can answer.
Zen quote
They made a wasteland and called it
peace.
Tacitus
One of the symptoms of an
approaching nervous breakdown is the
belief that one's work is terribly
important.
Bertrand Russell
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
D.T. Suzuki
I pray for insights of wisdom,
judgment, and knowledge. I pray for
deeper compassion, kindness,
gentleness, thoughtfulness, patience,
humility and tenderness. I pray for the
ability to express deep and ongoing
gratitude for every blessing and every
day.
Nightly prayer of a friend
No life ever grows great until it is
focused, dedicated, and disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
This world is like snow exposed to sun,
which continues to melt until it
disappears altogether, while the next
life is like a precious stone that never
passes away.
Al-Ghazzali
De todas las reacciones posibles ante la
injuria, la más hábil y económica es
el silencio. (Of all the possible reactions
to an injury, the cleverest and most
economical is silence.)
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
Eskimo Proverb
The wheel of fortune turns round
incessantly, and who can say to
himself, I shall today be uppermost.
Confucius
An education isn't how much you have
committed to memory, or even how
much you know. It's being able to
differentiate between what you do
know and what you don't.
Anatole France
Men's natures are alike; it is their
habits that carry them far apart.
Confucius
He must be very ignorant for he
answers every question he is asked.
Voltaire
We often refuse to accept an idea
merely because the tone of voice in
which it has been expressed is
unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
To understand the true quality of
people, you must look into their minds,
and examine their pursuits and
aversions.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
It is the quality of the moment, not the
number of days, or events, or of actors,
that imports.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only through observation will you
perceive weakness.
Charles Darwin
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
God is a comedian playing to an
audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire
The loudest and most influential voice
you hear is your own inner voice, your
self-critic. It can work for you or
against you, depending on the
messages you allow.
Keith Harrell
He who understands my music can
never know unhappiness again.
Ludwig van Beethoven
What you do when you don't have to,
determines what you will be when you
can no longer help it.
Rudyard Kipling
Even in war, moral power is to
physical as three parts out of four.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Pleasure is always derived from
something outside you, whereas joy
arises from within.
Eckhart Tolle
Most people are starting to realize that
there are only two different types of
companies in the world: those that
have been breached and know it and
those that have been breached and
don't know it. Therefore, prevention is
not sufficient and you're going to have
to invest in detection because you're
going to want to know what system has
been breached as fast as humanly
possible so that you can contain and
remediate.
Ted Schlein
Great thoughts speak only to the
thoughtful of mind, but great actions
speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt
A leader has the right to be beaten, but
never the right to be surprised.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The beginning of every government
starts with the education of our youth.
Pythagoras
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin
Experience is one thing you can't get for
nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.
Pablo Picasso
Fear defeats more people than any
other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The beginning of wisdom is a definition
of terms.
Socrates
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I
stay with the problems longer.
Albert Einstein
It is a curious fact that people are never
so trivial as when they take themselves
seriously.
Oscar Wilde
Intuition is perception via the
unconscious.
Carl Jung
Individual commitment to a group
effort'that is what makes a team work.
Vincent Lombardi
At times our own light goes out and is
rekindled by a spark from another
person. Each of us has cause to think
with deep gratitude of those who have
lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer
Wealth comes only from production,
and all that the wrangling grabbers,
loafers, and jobbers get to deal with
comes from somebody's toil and
sacrifice. Who, then, is he who provides
it all? The Forgotten Man delving away
in patient industry, supporting his
family, paying his taxes, casting his
vote, supporting the church and the
school but he is the only one for whom
there is no provision in the great
scramble and the big divide. Such is the
Forgotten Man. He works, he votes,
generally he prays'but he always pays.
William Graham Sumner,
Professor of Political and
Social Science
The Forgotten Man, February
1883
President Franklin Roosevelt's
Forgotten Man became the centerpiece
of his New Deal policies and political
constituency. Blaming Herbert
Hoover's 'rugged individualism'
policies for the Great Depression,
Roosevelt said that he would focus
government's efforts instead on The
Forgotten Man. When Roosevelt
incorporated the term ...on April 7,
1932, [he] said:'These unhappy times
call for the building of plans that rest
upon the forgotten, the unorganized but
the indispensable units of economic
power for plans that build from the
bottom up and not from the top down,
that put their faith once more in the
forgotten man at the bottom of the
economic pyramid.' '
Forbes, 2016
I have visited the laid-off factory
workers, and the communities crushed
by our horrible and unfair trade deals.
These are the forgotten men and
women of our country.
Donald Trump, July 21, 2016
The forgotten men and women of our
country will be forgotten no longer.
Donald Trump, November 9,
2016
A primary method for gaining a mind
full of peace is to practice emptying the
mind.
Napoleon Hill
Lying to ourselves is more deeply
ingrained than lying to others.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If evil be spoken of you and it be true,
correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus
If you have a garden and a library, you
have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
As the builders say, the larger stones do
not lie well without the lesser.
Plato
When you see a man of worth, think of
how you may emulate him. When you
see one who is unworthy, examine
yourself.
Confucius
Strategy without tactics is the slowest
route to victory. Tactics without
strategy is the noise before defeat.
Sun Tzu
The only people for me are the mad
ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad
to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of
everything at the same time, the ones
who never yawn or say a commonplace
thing, but burn, burn, burn like
fabulous yellow roman candles
exploding like spiders across the stars.
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
When a man's self is hidden from
everybody else it seems also to become
hidden even from himself, and it
permits disease and death to gnaw into
his substance without his clear
knowledge.
Sidney Jourard
I am still learning.
Michelangelo's motto
Loneliness is the way by which destiny
endeavors to lead man to himself.
Hermann Hesse
Seldom, or perhaps never, does a
marriage develop into an individual
relationship smoothly and without
crises; there is no coming to
consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung
He is a man whom it is impossible to
please, because he is never pleased with
himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There isn't enough darkness in all the
world to snuff out the light of one little
candle.
Anonymous
The art of living lies not in eliminating
but in growing with troubles.
Bernard M. Baruch
All men should strive to learn before
they die what they are running from,
and to, and why.
Once the game is over, the King and the
pawn go back into the same box.
If a little knowledge is dangerous,
where is the man who has so much as
to be out of danger?
If I am not for myself, who is for me?
And if I am only for myself, what am I?
And if not now, when?
The most hateful human misfortune is
for a wise man to have no influence.
In the name of God, stop a moment,
cease your work, look around you.
I shall assume that your silence gives
consent.
No man is more cheated than the selfish
man.
The simplest questions are the most
profound. Where were you born?
Where is your home? Where are you
going? What are you doing?
A man cannot be comfortable without
his own approval.
It takes time to persuade men to do
even what is for their own good.
To go fast, go alone, to go far, go
together.
If the Great Spirit wanted men to stay
in one place, He would make the world
stand still; but He made it to always
change, so birds and animals can move
and always have green grass and ripe
berries, sunlight to work and play, and
night to sleep.
The love in your heart wasn't put there
to stay. Love isn't love 'til you give it
away.
O Lord, help me not to despise or
oppose what I do not understand.
William Penn
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
Thomas Jefferson
No problem can be solved until it is
reduced to some simple form. The
changing of a vague difficulty into a
specific, concrete form is a very
essential element in thinking.
J.P. Morgan
Beware of the person with nothing to
lose.
Italian Proverb
There is only one time that is
important'NOW! It is the most
important time because it is the only
time that we have any power.
Leo Tolstoy
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore
more precious, than to be able to
decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte
You and I do not see things as they are.
We see things as we are.
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no indispensable man.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When two men quarrel, he who is first
silent is the better man.
The Talmud
Silence is the absolute poise or balance
of body, mind and spirit What are the
fruits of silence? They are self-control,
true courage or endurance, patience,
dignity, and reverence. Silence is the
cornerstone of character.
Ohiyesa
Don't follow the advice of others,
rather, learn to listen to the voice
within yourself.
Dogen
A hundred lifetimes may not be enough
to rectify the mistake made in one short
morning.
Chinese Proverb
If you can make a girl laugh'you can
make her do anything.
Marilyn Monroe
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds
rise and fall, but the moral laws are
written on the table of eternity.
Lord Acton
The greatest of all faults, I should say,
is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
You don't have to burn books to destroy
a culture. Just get people to stop
reading them.
Ray Bradbury
If you wish to do no evil then there is
not a single good deed which you
cannot do.
Chinese Wisdom
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have
a best friend.
Sara Dessen
A deep river is not troubled if you
throw a stone into it. If a religious
person is hurt by criticism, then he is
not a river but a shallow pool. Forgive
others, and then you will receive
forgiveness.
Masuh ud-Din Saadi
If I had a flower for every time I
thought of you I could walk through my
garden forever.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Quarrels would not last long if the fault
were only on one side.
François de la Rochefoucauld
Courage is the quality most essential to
understanding the language of the
world.
Paulo Coelho
The illiterate of the 21st century will not
be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn,
and relearn.
Alvin Toffler
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy
him by asking if there is anything you
can do; think up something
appropriate, and do it.
Edgar Watson Howe
Talk of the year ahead and the devil
laughs.
Japanese Proverb
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sign of a person of wisdom is
infinite love.
Sai Baba
We, ignorant of ourselves, beg often
our own harms, which the wise powers
deny us for our good.
William Shakespeare
Do not judge, and you will not be
judged. Do not condemn, and you will
not be condemned. Forgive, and you
will be forgiven. Give, and it will be
given to you For with the measure you
use, it will be measured to you.
Jesus Christ
Those who cannot love want power.
Guggenbuhl-Craig
What is man's chief enemy? Each man
is his own.
Anacharsis
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
Robert E. Lee
Nothing is impossible when we follow
our inner guidance, even when its
direction may threaten us by reversing
our usual logic.
Gerald Jampolsky
The Eternal is seen when the mind is at
rest. When the sea of the mind is
troubled by the winds of desire, it
cannot reflect the Eternal and all divine
vision is impossible.
Ramakrishna
Great indebtedness does not make men
grateful, but vengeful.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I made all my generals out of mud.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Great Spirit will not punish us for
what we do not know.
Chief Red Jacket
The easiest thing to do, whenever you
fail, is to put yourself down by blaming
your lack of ability for your
misfortunes.
Washington Irving
Close both eyes to see with the other
eye.
Rumi
When your bow is broken and your last
arrow spent, then shoot with your
whole heart.
Zen Saying
Speak truth to power.
Quaker search for an
alternative to violence
Trust the instinct to the end, though you
can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most difficult subjects can be
explained to the most slow-witted man
if he has not formed any idea of them
already; but the simplest thing cannot
be made clear to the most intelligent
man if he is firmly persuaded that he
knows already, without a shadow of a
doubt, what is laid before him.
Leo Tolstoy
Wickedness is always easier than
virtue, for it takes a short cut to
everything.
Samuel Johnson
Study the congregation before
preaching your sermon.
Japanese Proverb
Man is the creature of the era he lives
in; very few can raise themselves above
the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
All virtues spring from honor.
Albanian Proverb
Be at war with your vices, at peace
with your neighbors, and let every New
Year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin
The superior man in dealing with the
world is not for anything or against
anything. He follows righteousness as
the standard.
Confucius
The supreme excellence is not in being
better than others, but in being better
than your former self.
Indian Proverb
Take away the cause, and the effect
ceases.
Miguel de Cervantes
Often man is preoccupied with human
rules and forgets the inner law.
Antoine the Healer
Rare though true love may be, true
friendship is rarer still.
François La Rochefoucauld
When men are pure, laws are useless;
when men are corrupt, laws are
broken.
Benjamin Disraeli
We are not trying to please men but
God, who tests our hearts.
The Apostle Paul
Whatever others may say about your
faults (that you know you do not have),
do not respond emotionally.
Sai Baba
The pebble in the brook secretly thinks
itself a precious stone.
Japanese Proverb
He never was a friend who has ceased
to be one.
French Proverb
The man who thinks he can find enough
in himself to be able to dispense with
everybody else makes a great mistake,
but the man who thinks he is
indispensable to others makes an even
greater.
François La Rochefoucauld
At all times, look at the thing itself'the
thing behind the appearance.
Marcus Aurelius
Be your own torch and your own
refuge Seek refuge in no others but only
in yourself.
The Mahaparinibbana Sutta
Do we not realize that self-respect
comes with self-reliance?
Abdul Kalam
He then remains equally calm when the
majority is on his side as when he finds
himself in a minority for he has done
his part: he has expressed his
convictions; he is not lord over minds
and attitudes.
Goethe
Men of good will were ever men of
peace, and men of honor, men of good
will.
Baltasar Gracian
Great winds are powerless to disturb
the water of a deep well.
Chinese Proverb
So under the stars I let myself think of
that old man a little bit. That old Jasper
Yeoman. There was the truly terrible
guilt, that ever-present knowledge of
the incest the world most heartily
despises. Perhaps he was glad to die,
and perhaps he realized his Dolores
had killed him. Maybe he was glad
dying came so hard, by her hand.
Maybe, in his times of lucidity between
the terrible spasms of the poison, he
kept himself from saying her name and
how she had done it. It would be one
kind of penance. And there are never
enough kinds. Not for him. Not for me.
And certainly not for you, my friend.
John D. MacDonald, A Purple
Place For Dying
A thousand men have been ruined for
the pleasure of a little time short as a
dream.
Ptah-Hotep
Honor is a harder master than the law.
Mark Twain
We gain the strength of the temptation
we resist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the oath that makes us believe
the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus
He who wants to sell his honor will
always find a buyer.
Arabian Proverb
Walk the good road Be dutiful,
respectful, gentle and modest Be strong
with the warm, strong heart of the
earth.
Sioux Proverb
Our own heart, and not other men's
opinion, form our true honor.
Samuel Coleridge
Mine honor is my life, both grow in one.
Take honor from me, and my life is
done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor
let me try; In that I live, and for that I
will die.
William Shakespeare, Richard
II
And for the support of this Declaration,
with a firm reliance on the protection of
divine Providence, we mutually pledge
to each other our Lives, our Fortunes
and our sacred Honor.
Thomas Jefferson, the
Declaration of Independence
Show me the person you honor, for I
know better by that the kind of person
you are. For you show me what your
idea of humanity is.
Thomas Carlyle
Honor. . .remains awake in us like a
last lamp in a temple that has been laid
to waste.
Alfred de Vigny, Servitude et
grandeur militaires
I love the name of honor, more than I
fear death.
Julius Caesar
Peace is a precious and a desirable
thing. Our generation, bloodied in
wars, certainly deserves peace. But
peace, like almost all things of this
world, has its price, a high but a
measurable one. We in Poland do not
know the concept of peace at any price.
There is only one thing in the lives of
men, nations and countries that is
without price. That thing is honor.
Józef Beck, Polish Foreign
Minister, on the eve of World
War II
If your name means that much to you,
live on and redeem it.
Agrael
Ability without honor is useless.
Cicero
To the King, one must give his
possessions and his life; but honor is a
possession of soul, and the soul is only
God's.
Pedro Crespo in Pedro
Calderón de la Barca's The
Mayor of Zalamea
A true man of honor feels humbled
himself when he cannot help humbling
others.
Robert E. Lee
It is not titles that honor men, but men
that honor titles.
Niccolo Machiavelli
We laugh at honor and are shocked to
find traitors in our midst.
C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of
Man
What is life without Honor?
Degradation is worse than death.
Stonewall Jackson
They represented the flower of what
France had of the best and noblest in
name, in lineage, in chivalry, in that
year of grace 1783. The storm-cloud
which a few years hence was destined
to break over their heads, sweeping
them from their palaces to the prison
and the guillotine, was only gathering
very slowly in the dim horizon of
squalid, starving Paris: for the next
half-dozen years they would still dance
and gamble, fight and flirt, surround a
tottering throne, and hoodwink a weak
monarch. The Fates' avenging sword
still rested in its sheath; the relentless,
ceaseless wheel still bore them up in
their whirl of pleasure; the downward
movement had only just begun: the cry
of the oppressed children of France had
not yet been heard above the din of
dance music and lovers' serenades.
Baroness Orczy, I Will Repay
Elegance and simplicity combined are,
for all things and all persons, the
hallmark of nobility.
Charles-Maurice de
Talleyrand-Perigord
The Buddha was trying to find a new
way of being human. In the West, we
prize individualism and self-expression,
but this can easily degenerate into mere
self-promotion. What we find in
[Buddha] is a complete and
breathtaking self-abandonment In his
view, the spiritual life cannot begin
until people allow themselves to be
invaded by the reality of suffering, and
feel the pain of all other beings.
Karen Armstrong, Buddha
Pure gold does not fear furnace.
Chinese proverb
The worst thing you can do for those
you love are the things they could and
should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
The three foundations of learning:
seeing much, suffering much, and
studying much.
Catherall
The dawn does not come twice to wake
a man.
Anonymous
ISIS wants to increase hatred for
Muslims in the West. If even a tiny
minority of, say, French or American
Muslims feel less fully accepted as
French or American citizens, then ISIS
will have a better chance of attracting
even just a few more disaffected
individuals to its ranks.
Shadi Hamid, author of Islamic
Exceptionalism (2016)
Conflicts arise not over small things but
from small things.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Take care to get what you like or you
will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw
You just can't beat the person who
won't give up.
Babe Ruth
How soon 'Not now' becomes 'Never'.
Martin Luther King Jr.
If you don't know history, then you
don't know anything. You are a leaf
that doesn't know that it is a part of a
tree.
Michael Crichton
We make up horrors to help us cope
with the real ones.
Take care to get what you like or you
will be forced to like what you get.
How soon 'Not now' becomes 'Never'.
I never let my schooling interfere with
my education.
Mark Twain
Just remember the world is not a
playground but a schoolroom. Life is
not a holiday but an education. One
eternal lesson for us all: to teach us
how better we should love.
Barbara Jordan
If I had no sense of humor, I would long
ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi
I have observed very frequently that it
is not the man who is so brilliant (who)
delivers in time of stress and strain, but
rather the man who can keep on going
indefinitely, doing a good
straightforward job.
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
Words ought to be a little wild for they Be faithful in small things because it is
are the assault of thoughts on the in them that your strength lies.
unthinking. Mother Teresa
John Maynard Keynes Age only matters when one is aging.
It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is Now that I have arrived at a great age,
tougher. I might just as well be twenty.
Thom Yorke Pablo Picasso
War is only a cowardly escape from the That's my first lesson as a teacher:
problems of peace. teach those that want to learn. The
Thomas Mann reason doesn't matter.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but Paulo Coelho, The Witch of
the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. Portobello
The size of Operation Barbarossa
Karl von Clausewitz dwarfs everything else in the history of
warfare. As one historian records:
Anger makes dull men witty, and it
'Within a day, German attacks had
keeps them poor.
demolished one-quarter of the Soviet
Francis Bacon air force. Within four months, the
I can calculate the movements of Germans had occupied 600,000 square
heavenly bodies, but not the madness of miles of Russian soil, captured 3 million
people. Red Army troops, butchered countless
Sir Isaac Newton Jews and other civilians, and closed to
within 63 miles of Moscow. But four
Better to do a little well, than a great
months after that, more than 200,000
deal badly.
Wehrmacht troops had been killed,
Socrates 726,000 wounded, 400,000 captured
Nobody can hurt me without my and another 113,000 had been
permission. incapacitated by frostbite.'
Mahatma Gandhi Barbara Jordan
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest The nearest thing to eternal life we will
to the gods. ever see on this earth is a government
Socrates program.
Do something instead of killing time,
I shall tell you a great secret, my
friend. Do not wait for the last because time is killing you.
judgment, it takes place every day. Anger makes dull men witty, and it
keeps them poor.
Albert Camus
Words ought to be a little wild for they
are the assault of thoughts on the
unthinking.
One of the tests of leadership is the
ability to recognize a problem before it
becomes an emergency.
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest
to the gods.
Socrates
I can calculate the movements of
heavenly bodies, but not the madness of
people.
Als heimliche Liebe,
Von der niemand nicht weiß
What is necessary is never a risk.
Cardinal de Retz
An enemy surprised is already half-
defeated.
German Proverb
If we desire to secure peace...It must be
known that we are at all times ready
for war.
George Washington
No matter how many good words you
read and speak of, what good will they
do you if you do not put them into
practice and use them?
Buddha
All wish to be learned but no one is
willing to pay the price.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is:
Be satisfied with your opinions and
content with your knowledge.
Teach the young people how to think,
not what to think.
Man's mind stretched to a new idea
never goes back to its original
dimensions.
Education'has produced a vast
population able to read but unable to
distinguish what is worth reading.
It is just as important to have studied
men, as to have studied books.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be
able to entertain a thought without
accepting it.
Most of the learning in use, is of no
great use.
Knowledge without wisdom is a load of
books on the back of an ass.
The more intelligent a man is, the more
originality he discovers in men.
Ordinary men see no difference
between men.
Study as if you were never to master it;
as if in fear of losing it.
In the conditions of modern life the rule
is absolute; the race which does not
value trained intelligence is doomed.
If the soul would give itself leisure to
take breath and return into itself, it
would be easy for it to draw from its
own depths the seeds of the true.
The idea is in thyself. The impediment,
too, is in thyself.
Man has the power to act as his own
destroyer'and that is the way he has
acted through most of his history.
Men in the game are blind to what men
looking on see clearly.
A man has to face up to himself
sometime or other. You can go on
being satisfied or ducking the issue only
so long, and then there comes a time
when you start asking yourself, not
what you've done with your summer's
wages, but with your whole life up to
that minute. And more often than not
the answer you have to give yourself
isn't a happy one.
Time is the wisest counselor.
A society of sheep must in time beget a
government of wolves.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Don't judge each day by the harvest
you reap, but by the seeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am never afraid of what I know.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
[Pearl Harbor] is the strongest fortress
in the world. Enemy carriers, naval
escorts, and transports will begin to
come under air attack at a distance of
approximately 750 miles. This attack
will increase in intensity until within
200 miles of the objective. The enemy
forces will then be subject to all types of
bombardment closely supported by our
most modern pursuit aircraft. An
invader will face more than 3,500
troops backed by coast defense guns
and anti-aircraft artillery.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
If one feels the need of something
grand, something infinite, something
that makes one feel aware of God, one
need not go far to find it. I think that I
see something deeper, more infinite,
and more eternal than the ocean in the
expression of the eyes of a little baby
when it wakes in the morning and coos
or laughs because it sees the sun
shining on its cradle.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The art of being wise is the art of
knowing what to overlook
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Birth is the sudden opening of a
window, through which you look out
upon a stupendous prospect. For what
has happened? A miracle. You have
exchanged nothing for the possibility of
everything.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The sounding furrows; for my purpose
holds
Alfred Lord Tennyson
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Of all the western stars, until I die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
It may be that the gulfs will wash us
down:
Alfred Lord Tennyson
It may be we shall touch the Happy
Isles,
Alfred Lord Tennyson
And see the great Achilles, whom we
knew.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Though much is taken, much abides;
and though
Alfred Lord Tennyson
We are not now that strength which in
old days
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Moved earth and heaven; that which
we are, we are;
Alfred Lord Tennyson
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Made weak by time and fate, but strong
in will
Alfred Lord Tennyson
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to
yield.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The principle of spending money to be
paid by posterity, under the name of
[deficit] funding, is but swindling
futurity on a large scale.
All human wisdom is summed up in
two words'wait and hope.
[There is] nothing more fatal in politics
than clinging to the carcasses of failed
strategies.
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge
making a harmonious life; it is the self-
discipline which lifts us to serenity and
freedom. Knowledge is power, but only
wisdom is liberty.
Empty pockets never held anyone back.
Only empty heads and empty hearts
can do that.
The most basic inherent constraint is
that neither time nor wisdom are free
goods available in unlimited quantity.
This means that in social processes, as
in economic processes, it is not only
impossible to attain perfection but
irrational to seek perfection'or even to
seek the 'best possible' result in each
separate instance.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to
seem foolish.
It should be noted that the seeds of
wisdom that are to bear fruit in the
intellect are sown less by critical
studies and learned monographs than
by insights, broad impressions, and
flashes of intuition.
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book
of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to
merit the character of a just nation.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see
the miraculous in the common.
Knowledge is proud that he has learned
so much; Wisdom is humble that he
knows no more.
The wise man doesn't give the right
answers, he poses the right questions.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous
times.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our
power, and teach us, that the less we
use our power the greater it will be.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to
do desperate things.
If you bring forth that which is within
you,
Then that which is within you
Will be your salvation.
If you do not bring forth that which is
within you,
Then that which is within you
Will destroy you.
Wisdom is the supreme part of
happiness.
To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will
sound foolish.
There are many who know many
things, yet are lacking in wisdom.
Time ripens all things; no man is born
wise.
He's a fool who cannot conceal his
wisdom.
It is the province of knowledge to speak
and it is the privilege of wisdom to
listen.
Our lives are frittered away by detail . .
. simplify, simplify.
Re-examine all you have been told . . .
Dismiss what insults your Soul.
The ultimate result of shielding men
from the effects of folly is to fill the
world with fools.
If you think health care is expensive
now, wait until you see what it costs
when it's free!
There is no right way. No true path.
The more familiar the road, the easier
I'm lost.
There's a battle outside
And it's ragin.
It will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times are a-changin.
Make friends with pain, and you will
never be alone.
The wise, the strong, the respected,
have no scruples. Where there are
scruples there can be no power.
What this country needs are more
unemployed politicians.
You are never too old to be what you
might have been.
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives
the test first and the lessons afterwards.
A man is not honest simply because he
never had a chance to steal.
[The disarmament movement had
been] tragically successful in disarming
the nations that believed in
disarmament.
Most Western environmentalists have
never experienced the physical
sensation of hunger. They do their
lobbying from comfortable office suites
in Washington or Brussels. If they lived
just one month amid the misery of the
developing world, as I have for 50
years, they'd be crying out for tractors
and fertilizer and irrigation canals and
be outraged that fashionable elitists in
wealthy nations were trying to deny
them these things.
There are no benefits without costs in
human affairs.
A man I do not trust could not get
money from me on all the bonds in
Christendom.
The empires of the future are the
empires of the mind.
I have many faults, but being wrong
ain't one of them.
All my best thoughts were stolen by the
ancients.
I dream my painting, and then I paint
my dream.
In hopes of enticing more gamblers,
New Jersey lawmakers have repealed a
smoking ban, and in Illinois they are
considering allowing free drinks on
riverboat casinos.
I have often regretted my speech, never
my silence.
The recent economic crisis resulted
from a way of thinking based on the
idea that American-style free-market
economics represents a universal and
ideal economic order.
A dead thing can go with the stream,
but only a living thing can go against
it.
God not only plays dice, he throws
them in the corner where you can't see
them.
Death is nothing to us, since when we
are, death has not come, and when
death has come, we are not.
A secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
All life is 6 to 5 against.
It is in self-limitation that a master first
shows himself.
I passionately hate the idea of being
with it, I think an artist has always to
be out of step with his time.
Character is much easier kept than
recovered.
This is the first test of a gentleman: his
respect for those who can be of no
possible value to him.
I know war as few men now living
know it, and nothing to me is more
revolting. I have long advocated its
complete abolition, as its very
destructiveness on both friend and foe
has rendered it useless as a means of
settling international disputes.
The punishment which the wise suffer
who refuse to take part in the
government, is to live under the
government of worse men.
We learn from history that we do not
learn from history.
When you are right, you cannot be too
radical; When you are wrong, you
cannot be too conservative.
Turn your face to the sun and the
shadows fall behind you.
To be damned by the devil is to be truly
blessed.
It takes an entire village to raise a
child.
The questions are the way we
communicate with God. The questions
are more important than the answers.
Man lifts his soul by the questions he
asks.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson
I make mistakes, and when I make You have done what you could.
them, they are Himalayan in size; I Ralph Waldo Emerson
make the biggest possible mistakes. I
Some blunders and absurdities, no
take comfort as I make one mistake
doubt crept in.
after another in the fact that the wisest
person who ever lived, I Ralph Waldo Emerson
believe'Plato'made mistakes and Forget them as soon as you can,
admitted them. tomorrow is a new day;
Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like living. I have sometimes been Begin it well and serenely, with too
wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, high a spirit
racked with sorrow, but through it all I Ralph Waldo Emerson
still know quite certainly that just to be
alive is a grand thing. To be cumbered with your old
nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do. This new day is too dear,
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time ripens all things; no man is born With its hopes and invitations,
wise. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson To waste a moment on yesterdays.
Write it on your heart Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Experience is a hard teacher. She gives
the test first and the lessons afterwards.
That every day is the best day in the
year. Ralph Waldo Emerson
In times like these, it helps to recall that
Ralph Waldo Emerson
there have always been times like these.
He is rich who owns the day, and no
one owns the day Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Too many people are thinking of
Who allows it to be invaded with fret security instead of opportunity. They
seem more afraid of life than death.
and anxiety.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish every day and be done with it.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new
idea, never regains its original
dimensions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make haste slowly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The young always have the same
problem'how to rebel and conform at
the same time. They have solved this by
defying their parents and copying one
another.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gandhi equated God with truth, and for
Lord Acton the essence of a society's
devotion to freedom was its belief in
truth.
J. Rufus Fears, A History of
Freedom
When you reach the top, keep climbing.
Never mistake motion for action.
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him
that hears it, never in the tongue of him
that makes it.
The best leaders of all are the ones
people do not know exist. They turn to
each other and say we did it ourselves.
Always do sober what you said you'd
do drunk. That will teach you to keep
your mouth shut.
Always be a little kinder than
necessary.
I do not believe today everything I
believed yesterday; I wonder will I
believe tomorrow everything I believed
today.
The really big change on the horizon is
the arrival of the Chinese yuan as a
fully convertible currency.
In the environment we're in now,
where bonuses get handled by the
president of the U.S., I'm not sure I
want to be somebody who has profited
wildly from government assistance in
buying debt.
If you think about it, UPS and FedEx
are doing just fine. It's the post office
that's always having problems.
This struggle over healthcare
legislation isn't just another battle
between the Democratic and
Republican parties. It's about which
force is going to take the United States
forward for the next generation: the
public sector or the private sector.
We are fast approaching 'peak oil'
when the demand for oil exceeds
supply. And today, oil continues to be
sourced in places that are
geographically remote and
environmentally sensitive. In addition,
our customers are more and more
concerned about environmental issues
like global warming, air pollution and
recycling. So . . . today . . . we are at a
new once-in-a-century-crossroads.
Live simply so that others may simply
live.
The problem with socialism is that
eventually you run out of other people's
money.
The top 1% of American households pay
more in federal taxes than the bottom
95% combined.
There is more anger in America today
than at any time I can remember.
Government is at a stand; little better
practiced now than three or four
thousand years ago.
Nothing is more unfair than to judge
men of the past by the ideas of the
present. Whatever may be said of
morality, political wisdom is certainly
ambulatory.
Know, my son, with how little wisdom
the world is governed.
No experience of the failure of his policy
could shake his belief in its essential
excellence.
And thus shalt thou say to them:
Whereas my father laid upon you a
heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke.
Whereas my father chastised you with
whips, I shall chastise you with
scorpions.
Human kindness has never weakened
the stamina or softened the fiber of a
free people. A nation does not have to
be cruel in order to be tough.
Kindness is the opposite of judgment.
This is my simple religion. There is no
need for complicated philosophy. Our
own brain, our own heart is our
temple; the philosophy is kindness.
No one appears inferior to us when our
heart is kindled with kindness.
The simple gift of being kind is greater
than all the wisdom of the wise.
Men are only great as they are kind.
We make a living by what we get, but
we make a life by what we give.
Kindness is the root of righteousness.
Kindness is the enemy of cruelty,
harshness, rudeness. It softens the
heart. It opens the door to heaven. . .
The smallest act of kindness is worth
more than the grandest intention.
Each person has inside a basic decency
and goodness. If he listens to it and
acts on it, he is giving a great deal of
what it is the world needs most. It is
not complicated but it takes courage. It
takes courage for a person to listen to
his own goodness and act on it.
You can never do a kindness too soon,
because you never know how soon it
will be too late.
Be kind to unkind people; they need it
the most.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is
fighting a hard battle.
A person's true wealth is the good he or
she does in the world.
It is the characteristic of the
magnanimous man to ask no favor but
to be ready to do kindness to others.
Kindness is the ability to love someone
more than they deserve.
What wisdom can you find that is
greater than kindness?
Kindness is more than deeds. It is an
attitude, an expression, a look, a touch.
It is anything that lifts another person.
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that
blunts the sting of unkindness in others.
Kindness is a tolerance (the absence of
judgment)
Kindness is gentleness (the absence of
harm)
Kindness is a generosity (the absence of
selfishness)
We cannot be just unless we are kind.
To practice five things everywhere
under heaven constitutes perfect
virtue . . . gravity, generosity of soul,
sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
No act of kindness, no matter how
small, is ever wasted.
What you do for yourself'any gesture of
kindness, any gesture of gentleness,
any gesture of honesty and clear seeing
toward yourself'will affect how you
experience your world. In fact it will
transform how you experience the
world.
Thoughtfulness, the kindly regard for
others, is the beginning of holiness.
The real law lives in the kindness of our
hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law
or political reform can fill them.
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates
profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
Always meet petulance and
perverseness with a gentleness. A
gentle hand can lead even an elephant
by a hair.
You have not lived a perfect day, even
though you have earned your money,
unless you have done something for
someone who cannot repay you.
I expect to pass through the world but
once; any good thing therefore that I
can do, or any kindness that I can show
to any fellow creature, let me do it now;
let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall
not pass this way again.
You cannot help the poor by destroying
the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by
weakening the strong. You cannot
bring about prosperity by discouraging
thrift.
I was never ruined but twice, once
when I lost a lawsuit and once when I
won one.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga
Din!
when another is writing a letter.
Throughout all my years of investing,
I've found that the big money was
never made in the buying or selling, the
big money was made in the waiting.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by
pulling the wage payer down. You
cannot further the brotherhood of man
by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and
courage by taking away people's
initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by
doing for them, what they could and
should do for themselves.
tis something, nothing;
Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave
to thousands; But he that filches from
me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
Here are a few examples of what we
may face in the next 10 years: a
profound and prolonged American
crash, with the admission of
bankruptcy and the spread of deep
social unrest; one or more American
cities getting hit with weapons of mass
destruction from an unknown source;
faint glimmers of actual secessionist
movements as Americans for various
reasons and in various areas decide the
burdens and assumptions of the federal
government are no longer attractive or
legitimate.
It is the nature of all people to believe
every calamity happening to them a
trial, and every one happening to
others a judgment.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
As long as people believe in absurdities
they will continue to commit atrocities.
The man who is pessimist before forty-
eight knows too much; the man who is
an optimist after forty-eight knows too
little.
Take egotism out and you would
castrate the benefactors.
I wonder men dare trust themselves
with men.
Be polite, write diplomatically; even in
declaration of war one observes the
rules of politeness.
You'll non-conform when I tell you to
non-conform.
He missed an invaluable opportunity to
hold his tongue.
We consume our tomorrows fretting
about our yesterdays.
If a man would live in peace he should
be blind, deaf, and dumb.
Do well and you will have no need of
ancestors.
Never speak ill of yourself. Your
friends will always say enough on that
subject.
I never think of the future. It comes
soon enough.
Whom they have injured they also hate.
The main thing is . . . to make history,
not to write it.
The difficult we do immediately, the
impossible takes a little longer.
If a man can write a better book, or
preach a better sermon, or build a
better mousetrap than his neighbor,
though he builds his house in the woods,
the world will make a beaten path to
his door.
A man who carries a cat by the tail
learns something he can learn in no
other way.
I have forgotten more law than you
ever knew but allow me to say, I have
not forgotten much.
Pray, sir? said Arthur, repeating his
question, 'what is this place'?
Charles Dickens,Little Dorrit
This is the Marshalsea, sir.'
Charles Dickens,Little Dorrit
The debtors 'prison'?
Charles Dickens,Little Dorrit
Sir, the debtors 'prison.'
Charles Dickens,Little Dorrit
Can anyone go in here?
Charles Dickens,Little Dorrit
Anyone can go IN,? replied the old
man; plainly adding by the significance
of his emphasis, 'but it is not everyone
who can go out.'
Charles Dickens,Little Dorrit
Give the masses what they want in
nominal terms and take it back in real
terms.
Old Saying
Creditors have better memories than
debtors.
Old Saying
You are born in a clear field, you die in
a dark woods.
Old Saying
The only way out, is going through.
Robert Frost
If you are living with another person,
make an agreement that as soon as
either of you starts to blame the other,
you will end the argument.
Leo Tolstoy
A soul does not learn; it simply
remembers what it knew all the time.
Daud El Gaffer
The best person is the one who loves
everyone and does good to everyone
without asking whether the person is
good or bad.
Mohammed
Everything is indefinite, misty, and
transient; only virtue is clear, and it
cannot be destroyed by any force.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is good to have what you want, but it
is better to want only what you have.
Menedemus
Compassion for animals is so closely
linked to kindness that I can confidently
say that anyone who is cruel to animals
is not a good person.
Schopenhauer
The first rule of wisdom is to know
yourself, because if you know yourself,
you can know other people. The first
rule of charity to others is to be content
with little, because only those who are
content with little can share with
others.
John Ruskin
A twig severed from a branch is
thereby also separated from the whole
tree. Likewise, a person who is in
conflict with another person is also cut
off from all of humanity. The difference
is that the twig is broken off by
someone else's hand, while the person
cuts himself off from his neighbor by
means of his own hatred and does not
realize that he is cutting himself off
from all of humanity.
Marcus Aurelius
I love farmers - too much 'education'
has not distorted their common sense.
Montesquieu
The man who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the man doing it.
Chinese proverb
They say that a good person cannot
help but get angry at those who are
bad. If this were true, then the better a
person would be compared to others,
the angrier he would get at others. But
it is just the opposite, when you meet a
good person. The better he is, the
gentler and kinder he is towards
others. This is because a good person
remembers that he himself has often
sinned; and therefore he should get
angry at himself before he gets angry
at those who are bad.
Seneca
To be virtuous, you must have a free
soul. The souls of people who are
always getting angry at someone or
who are always afraid of something
and who let their passions rule them
are not free. A person whose soul is not
free looks but does not see, listens but
does not hear, eats but does not taste.
Confucius
Do not search for pleasures; rather, be
prepared to find pleasure in all that
you do.
John Ruskin
Just as a mother protects, raises and
pampers her only child, in this same
way you should encourage and protect
in yourself the most precious of your
possessions, your ability to love others.
Indian wisdom
In every man's life there are things
which he does not reveal to everyone
but only to his friends. There are also
things which he does not reveal to his
friends but at best to himself and only
under a pledge of secrecy. And finally
there are things which a man hesitates
to reveal even to himself. Every decent
person accumulates a considerable
quantity of such things. In fact you
might say that the more decent a
person is, the greater the number of
such things that he carries around with
him.
Thomas Mann
Before you set out on revenge, dig two
graves.
Chinese Wisdom
According to an online poll, 87% of
respondents considered China's dollar
assets unsafe.
Global Times
The problem with communication is the
illusion that it has been accomplished.
George Bernard Shaw
Determine that the thing can and shall
be done, and then we shall find the
way.
Abraham Lincoln
There ain't no surer way to find out
whether you like people or hate them
than to travel with them.
Mark Twain
On this earth, in the final analysis, each
of us gets exactly what he deserves. But
only the successful recognize this.
Georges Simenon
He who has a secret should not only
hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
Thomas Carlyle
It is only about things that do not
interest one that one can give a really
unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the
reason why an unbiased opinion is
always valueless.
Oscar Wilde
Every parent is at some time the father
of the unreturned prodigal, with
nothing to do but keep his house open to
hope.
John Ciardi
Only those who have the patience to do
simple things perfectly will acquire the
skill to do difficult things easily.
Johann Friedrich von Schiller
A person who knows little likes to talk,
and one who knows much mostly keeps
silent. This is because a person who
knows little thinks that everything he
knows is important, and wants to tell
everyone. A person who knows much
also knows that there is much more he
doesn't know. That's why he speaks
only when it is necessary to speak, and
when he is not asked questions, he
keeps his silence.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Peace is not made at the council table,
or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
Herbert Hoover
Conquer rage with humility, conquer
evil with goodness, conquer greed with
generosity, and conquer lies with truth.
Dhammapada
Rather, it is your crimes that separate
you from God, and it is your sins that
make him hide his face so that he will
not hear you. For your hands are
stained with blood, your fingers with
guilt; your lips speak falsehood, and
your tongue utters deceit.
Isaiah 59:2-3
Very often people are proud of the
purity of their conscience only because
their memory is too short.
Zanizad Rafaezsky
There are two types of ignorance, the
pure, natural ignorance into which all
people are born, and the ignorance of
the so-called wise. You will see that
many among those who call themselves
scholars do not know real life, and they
despise simple people and simple
things.
Blaise Pascal
Hell is hidden behind all sorts of
luxuries, and paradise can be found
behind hard work and troubles.
Mohammed
To that extent, as radical as I think
people try to characterize the Warren
court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't
break free from the essential
constraints that were placed by the
Founding Fathers in the Constitution,
at least as it's been interpreted, and the
Warren Court interpreted in the same
way, that generally the Constitution is
a charter of negative liberties. Says
what the states can't do to you. Says
what the federal government can't do
to you, but doesn't say what the federal
government or state government must
do on your behalf.
Barack Obama
Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is
patience.
Robert D. Foster
Respect those who seek the truth, be
wary of those who claim to have found
it.
Mark Twain
Almost all our faults are more
pardonable than the methods we resort
to hide them.
Fran
Those who never retract their opinions
love themselves more than they love the
truth.
Joseph Joubert
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the
stirrup.
Turkish proverb
It is one thing to show a man that he is
in an error, and another to put him in
possession of the truth.
John Locke
The only way to tell the truth is to speak
with kindness. Only the words of a
loving man can be heard.
Henry David Thoreau
Only speak when your words are better
than your silence.
Arabic proverb
It is a great thing when two souls are
united to support each other in their
work, in their successes and
misfortunes, until the last silent
minutes of the last good-bye.
George Eliot
Financial Times
No man is above the law and no man is
below it; nor do we ask any man's
permission when we require him to
obey it. Obedience of the law is
demanded, not asked as a favor.
Theodore Roosevelt
He that falls by himself never cries.
Turkish proverb
No government can be long secure
without a formidable opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli
Man exploits man. Under communism,
it's just the opposite.
Russian saying
The silliest woman can manage a clever
man; but it needs a very clever woman
to manage a fool!
Rudyard Kipling
How should we like it/were stars to
burn/With a passion for us we/could
not return/If equal affection there
cannot be/Let the more loving one be
me.
W.H. Auden
In the field of observation, chance
favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
What is harder than rock, or softer
than water? Yet soft water hollows out
hard rock. Persevere.
Ovid
I can believe anything provided it is
incredible.
Oscar Wilde
Endless money forms the sinews of
war.
John Milton
Time will run back and fetch the age of
gold.
John Milton
There's little comfort in the wise.
Rupert Brooke
Experience is the name so many people
give to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
It is difficult to say who do you the most
mischief: enemies with the worst
intentions or friends with the best.
E.R. Bulwer-Lytton
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the
greatness of the soul. Only kindness
can do that.
Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can
become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant
The things that will destroy America
are prosperity-at-any-price, safety-
first instead of duty-first, the love of
soft living, and the get-rich-quick
theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
Americans are like a rich father who
wishes he knew how to give his sons the
hardships that made him rich.
Robert Frost
Children begin by loving their parents;
as they grow older they judge them;
sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
We live in the present, we dream of the
future, but we learn eternal truths from
the past.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek
It is never too late to be what you might
have been.
George Eliot
It is often easier to fight for principles
than to live up to them.
Adlai Stevenson
I will pay more for the ability of a man
to lead others than for any other asset.
J.P. Morgan
Engrave this upon thy heart: There
isn't anyone you couldn't love once
you've heard their story.
Mary Lou Kownacki
Loyalty means nothing, unless it has at
its heart the absolute principle of
sacrifice.
Woodrow Wilson
A man is not old till regrets take the
place of dreams.
John Barrymore
There is no security on this earth'only
opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur
It is only with the heart that one can see
rightly; what is essential is invisible to
the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
This is the true measure of love: when
we believe that we alone can love, that
no one could ever have loved so before
us, and that no one will ever love in the
same way after us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as
seek to quench the fire of love with
words.
William Shakespeare
Two things only a man cannot hide:
that he is drunk and that he is in love.
Antiphanes
Only love can be divided endlessly and
still not diminish.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Love and time'those are the only two
things in all the world and all of life
that cannot be bought, but only spent.
Gary Jennings
The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers
Let there be spaces in your
togetherness/And let the winds of the
heavens dance between you.
Kahlil Gibran
Where there is great love, there are
always miracles.
Willa Cather
No disguise can long conceal love
where it is, nor feign it where it is not.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
I love you, not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.
Roy Croft
Tell me whom you love, and I'll tell you
who you are.
Creole proverb
Nobody has ever measured, even the
poets, how much a heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
It is often hard to bear the tears that we
ourselves have caused.
Marcel Proust
Never close your lips to those to whom
you have opened your heart.
Charles Dickens
When one loves somebody, everything
is clear'where to go, what to do'it all
takes care of itself and one doesn't have
to ask anybody about anything.
Maxim Gorky
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is
of little faith is also of little love.
Erich Fromm
When a woman says, 'Ah, I could love
you if' - fear not, she already loves you.
Walter Pulitzer
Unless you can muse in a crowd all day
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
On the absent face that fixed you;
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Unless you can love as the angels may
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
With the breadth of heaven betwixt
you;
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Unless you can dream that his faith is
fast
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Through behoving and unbehoving;
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Unless you can die with the dream is
past?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Oh never call it loving.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Attempts to combine wisdom and
power has only rarely been successful
and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
Sense shines with a double luster when
it is set in humility. An able yet humble
man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
William Penn
Never forget what a man has said to
you when he was angry.
Henry Ward Beecher
The human species is composed of two
distinct races: the men who borrow,
and the men who lend.
Charles Lamb
A precipice in front of you, and wolves
behind you, in your rear; that is life.
Latin proverb
How do I love thee? Let me count the
ways. I love thee to the depth and
breadth and height My soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Grant I may never prove so fond, to
trust a man on his oath or bond.
William Shakespeare
I have known a vast quantity of
nonsense talked about bad men not
looking you in the face. Don't trust that
conventional idea. Dishonesty will
stare honesty out of countenance, any
day in the week, if there is anything to
be got by it.
Charles Dickens
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat;
John Dryden
Yet, fooled with hope, men favor the
deceit;
John Dryden
Trust on, and think tomorrow will
repay.
John Dryden
Tomorrow's falser than the former day.
John Dryden
Man'the glory and shame of the
universe.
Blaise Pascal
Nowadays we know the price of
everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
The solar system has no anxiety about
its reputation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The houses that he makes last till
doomsday.
William Shakespeare
Some time ago a convention of
morticians discussed the danger
threatening their industry from the
increasing tardiness of men in keeping
their rendezvous with death.
Will and Ariel Durant
Well, the trade-off'is that you risk
setting in motion forces that will be
very hard to stop in terms of inflation
down the road and you are creating an
imbalance between revenues and
expenses in the government that is a lot
easier to create than it will be to correct
later on. But those are problems worth
taking on, but you don't get a free
lunch.
Warren Buffett, Nightly
Business Report, January 22,
2009
According to a Journal report Friday, ?
[Daschle] told committee staff he had
grown used to having a car and driver
as majority leader and did not think to
report the perk on his taxes, according
to staff members.' How's that for a
Leona Helmsley moment: Doesn't
everyone have a car and chauffeur,
dear?
The Wall Street Journal,
February 2, 2009
I never could tell a lie that anyone
would doubt, nor a truth that anybody
would believe.
Mark Twain
I want everyone to tell me the truth,
even if it costs him his job.
Sam Goldwyn
He who by his prince too blindly does
obey,
John Dryden
Keeps his faith, his virtue throws away.
John Dryden
Man fools himself. He prays for a long
life, and he fears an old age.
Chinese proverb
There is no means of avoiding the final
collapse of a boom brought about by
credit expansion. The alternative is
only whether the crisis should come
sooner as the result of voluntary
abandonment of further credit
expansion, or later as a final and total
catastrophe of the currency system
involved.
Ludwig von Mises, Human
Action (1949)
With the exception only of the period of
the gold standard, practically all
governments of history have used their
exclusive power to issue money to
defraud and plunder the people.
F.A. von Hayek
The money power preys upon the
nation in times of peace and conspires
against it in times of adversity. It is
more despotic than monarchy, more
insolent than autocracy, more selfish
than bureaucracy.
Abraham Lincoln
I am afraid that the ordinary citizen
will not like to be told that the banks
can, and do, create money. The
amount of money in existence varies
only with the action of the banks in
increasing and decreasing deposits and
bank purchases. Every loan, overdraft,
or bank purchase creates a deposit and
every repayment of a loan, overdraft or
bank sale destroys a deposit. And they
who control the credit of a nation direct
the policy of governments, and hold in
the hollow of their hands the destiny of
the people.
Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna,
(former) Chancellor of the
Exchequer
Banking was conceived in inequity and
was born in sin. The bankers own the
earth. Take it away from them, but
leave them the power to create deposits,
and with the flick of the pen they will
create enough deposits to buy it back
again. However, take it away from
them, and all the great fortunes like
mine will disappear and they ought to
disappear, for this would be a happier
and better world to live in. But, if you
wish to remain the slaves of bankers
and pay the costs of your own slavery,
let them continue to create deposits.
Lord Josiah Stemp, Former
Director of the Bank
of England (1937)
I am a most unhappy man. I have
unwittingly ruined my country. A
great industrial nation is controlled by
its system of credit. Our system of
credit is concentrated. The growth of
the nation, therefore, and all our
activities are in the hands of a few men.
We have come to be one of the worst
ruled, one of the most completely
controlled and dominated governments
in the civilized world. No longer a
government by free opinion, no longer
a government by conviction and vote of
majority, but a government by the
opinion and duress of a small group of
dominant men.
President Woodrow Wilson
(regretting signing into law the
Federal Reserve Act)
At the end fiat money returns to its
inner value'zero.
Voltaire
If the governments devalue the
currency in order to betray all
creditors, you politely call this
procedure 'inflation.'
George Bernard Shaw
By this means (fractional reserve
banking) government may secretly and
unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the
people, and not one man in a million
will detect the theft.
John Maynard Keynes, The
Economic Consequences of the
Peace (1920)
The problem with fiat money is that it
rewards the minority that can handle
money, but fools the generation that
has worked and saved money.
Adam Smith
Give me control of a nation's money
and I care not who makes the laws.
Amschel Rothschild
It is well enough that people of the
nation do not understand our banking
and monetary system, for if they did, I
believe there would be a revolution
before morning.
Henry Ford
The modern banking process
manufactures currency out of nothing.
The process is perhaps the most
astounding piece of slight hand that
was ever invented'If you want to be
slaves of the bankers, and pay the cost
of your own slavery, then let the banks
create currency.
Lord Josiah Stemp, Former
Director of the Bank
of England (1937)
In the absence of the gold standard,
there is no way to protect savings from
confiscation through inflation [?]
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for
the 'hidden? confiscation of wealth.
Gold stands in the way of this insidious
process. It stands as a protector of
property rights. If one grasps this, one
has no difficulty in understanding the
statists? antagonism towards the gold
standard.
Alan Greenspan, Gold and
Economic Freedom (1968)
In the past 30 years there have been
monetary crises in 87 countries, most of
the time with inflationary bankruptcies
and hyperinflations.
Manfred Zimmel, Amanita
Hyperinflation Special
If the American people ever allow
private banks to control the issuance of
their currency, first by inflation and
then by deflation, the banks and
corporations that will grow up around
them will deprive the people of all their
property until their children will wake
up homeless on the continent their
fathers conquered.
Thomas Jefferson
Every banker knows that if he has to
prove that he is worthy of credit,
however good may be his arguments,
in fact his credit is gone.
Walter Bagehot
There is no respect for others without
humility in one's self.
Kindness is more important than
wisdom, and the recognition of this is
the beginning of wisdom.
True self-respect, being very different
from false pride, leads inevitably to
respecting others.
If one doesn't respect oneself one can
have neither love nor respect for others.
The soul that is within me no man can
degrade.
What doesn't add will subtract.
Drawing on my fine command of the
English language, I said nothing.
That best portion of a good man's life;
his little, nameless, unremembered acts
of kindness and love.
I forget what I have been taught. I only
remember what I've learned.
The best and safest thing is to keep a
balance in your life, acknowledge the
great powers around us and in us. If
you can do that, and live that way, you
are really a wise person.
To shrink something
Tao Te Ching
You need to expand it first
Tao Te Ching
To weaken something
Tao Te Ching
You need to strengthen it first
Tao Te Ching
To abolish something
Tao Te Ching
You need to flourish it first
Tao Te Ching
To take something you need to give it
first
Tao Te Ching
Knowledge of the truth before the next
man, in peace or war, lay behind every
correct decision in history and was the
source of all great reputations.
Ian Fleming, Thunderball
The Chinese believe in constant change,
but with things always moving back to
some prior state. They pay attention to
a wide range of events; they search for
relationships between things; and they
think you can't understand the part
without understanding the whole.
Westerners live in a simpler, more
deterministic world, they focus on
salient objects or people instead of the
larger picture; and they think they can
control events because they know the
rules that govern the behavior of
objects.
Richard E. Nesbett, The
Geography of Thought: How
Asians and Westerners Think
Differently
All that we see or seem is but a dream
within a dream.
Edgar Allen Poe
Ask the experienced rather than the
learned.
Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly,
or feels so right, or inspires so much
protective instinct as the hand of a
child.
Gregory David
Roberts, Shantaram
One of the reasons why we crave love,
and seek it so desperately, is that love is
the only cure for loneliness, and shame,
and sorrow. But some feelings sink so
deep into the heart that only loneliness
can help you find them again. Some
truths about yourself are so painful
that only shame can help you live with
them. And some things are just so sad
that only your soul can do the crying
for you.
César Ritz
Le client n'a jamais tort. The customer
is never wrong.
César Ritz
Man's capacity for justice makes
democracy possible; but man's
inclination to injustice makes
democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Where so many hours have been spent
in convincing myself that I am right, is
there not some reason to fear I may be
wrong?
Jane Austen
The art of being wise is the art of
knowing what to overlook.
William James
As soon as A observes something which
seems to him to be wrong, from which
X is suffering, A talks it over with B,
and A and B then propose to get a law
passed to remedy the evil and help X.
Their law always proposes to
determine what C shall do for X, or in
the better case, what A, B, and C shall
do for X'What I want to do is to look up
C. I want to show you what manner of
man he is. I call him the Forgotten
Man. Perhaps the appellation is not
strictly correct. He is the man who
never is thought of'He works, he votes,
generally he prays'but he always pays.
It is difficult for men in high office to
avoid the malady of self-delusion. They
are always surrounded by
worshippers. They are constantly and
for the most part, sincerely assured of
their greatness.
Calvin Coolidge
You can do very little with faith, but
you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butler
In times like these, it helps to recall that
there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey
The most important question in the
world is, 'Why is the child crying'?
Alice Walker
I can do no other than be reverent
before everything that is called life. I
can do no other than to have
compassion for all that is called life.
That is the beginning and the
foundation of all ethics.
Albert Schweitzer
I'm not an old, experienced hand at
politics. But I am now seasoned
enough to have learned that the hardest
thing about any political campaign is
how to win without proving that you
are unworthy of winning.
Adlai E. Stevenson
I do not know what I may appear to the
world, but to myself I seem to have
been only like a boy playing on the sea-
shore, and diverting myself in now and
then finding a smoother pebble or a
prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the
great ocean of truth lay all
undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
You are neither right nor wrong
because the crowd disagrees with you.
You are right because your data and
reasoning are right.
Benjamin Graham
You're advocating censorship; you
shouldn't be allowed to publish it.
Anonymous
I hope our wisdom will grow with our
power, and teach us, that the less we
use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson
Confidence'thrives on honesty, on
honor, on the sacredness of obligations,
on faithful protection and on unselfish
performance. Without them it cannot
live.
Franklin Roosevelt
Karla always tells the truth, even when
she's lying.
Gregory David
Roberts, Shantaram
In 1914, the Great Norwegian polar
explorer Fridtjof Nansen calculated
that the Russian Empire had been
expanding at an average daily rate of
fifty-five square miles over four
centuries, or more than twenty
thousand square miles per year, an
area roughly the size of modern
Belgium.
Anthony Pagden, Peoples and
Empires
Nothing more can be considered as real
merit for a person than his effort. Only
in his effort is a person shown in his
real light.
Qu?ran
Hate the sin and not the sinner is a
precept which though easy enough to
understand is rarely practiced, and
that is why the poison of hatred
spreads in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
She confused honor with virtue. Virtue
is concerned with what we do, and
honor is concerned with how we do it.
Gregory David
Roberts, Shantaram
Happiness and moral duty are
inseparably connected.
George Washington
Every person must decide whether to
walk in the light of creative altruism or
in the darkness of destructive
selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's
most persistent and urgent question is
what are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Weakness of attitude becomes
weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
Cruelty is a kind of cowardice. Cruel
laughter is the way cowards cry when
they're not alone, and causing pain is
how they grieve.
We shall never know all the good that a
simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa
Fate has every power over us, but two.
Fate cannot control our free will, and
fate cannot lie.
Gregory David
Roberts, Shantaram
Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein
The easy, cheap oil is over. Peak oil is
looming.
Shokri Ghanem, head of Libya?
s National Oil Corporation
Every saint has a past and every sinner
has a future.
Oscar Wilde
By the end of the decade, there will be
900 million vehicles worldwide
requiring 360 billion gallons of
gasoline a year.
Confucius
Who sees all beings in his own Self, and
his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.
When a sage sees the great Unity and
his Self has become all beings, what
delusion and what sorrow can ever be
near him?
Upanishads
Concentration is my motto'first
honesty, then industry, then
concentration.
Andrew Carnegie
A club hurts the flesh, but evil words
hurt the bone.
Chinese Proverb
He prayeth best who loveth best. All
things great and small; For the dear
God who loveth us, He made and loveth
all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The
Ancient Mariner
To be wronged is nothing unless you
continue to remember it.
Confucius
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin
The love of thy neighbor hath its
bounds in each man's love of himself.
St. Augustine
A leader does not necessarily need to be
the most intelligent member of his
group'rather he is the one with the
clearest and most far-reaching vision.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid
Al Maktoum
A man has to find a good woman, and
when he finds her he has to win her
love. Then he has to earn her respect.
Then he has to cherish her trust. And
then he has to go on doing that for as
long as they live. Until they both die.
Gregory David
Roberts, Shantaram
Happy wife. Happy life.
Stephen Holowesko
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In time we hate that which we often
fear.
William Shakespeare
Hate the sin and not the sinner is a
precept which though easy enough to
understand is rarely practiced, and
that is why the poison of hatred
spreads in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
We are never deceived; we deceive
ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its
good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rain fell alike upon the just and
upon the unjust, and for nothing was
there a why and a wherefore.
William Shakespeare
I must be cruel to be kind; thus bad
begins, and worse remains behind.
William Shakespeare
Breach of promise is no less an act of
insolvency than a refusal to pay one's
debt.
Mahatma Gandhi
As we grow old'the beauty steals
inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That is the true measure of love, when
we believe that we alone can love, that
no one could ever have loved so before
us, and that no one will love in the same
way after us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents
hate saints.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pray thee cease thy counsel, which
falls into mine ears as profitless as
water in a sieve.
William Shakespeare
Before we set our hearts too much upon
anything, let us examine how happy
those are who already possess it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Only a blind person would not see the
destructive consequences for Europe
from the game being played out over
Kosovo. We have warned the EU.
Sergei Yastrzhembsky (Putin?s
envoy)
There is a Wheel on which the affairs of
men revolve, and its mechanism is such
that it prevents any man from being
always fortunate.
Men's natures are alike, it is their
habits that carry them far apart.
Confucius
Beware of dissipating your powers;
strive constantly to concentrate them.
Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees
others doing, but is sure to repent of
every ill-judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle
wakes up. It knows it must run faster
than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up. It
knows it must outrun the slowest
gazelle or it will starve to death. The
moral of the anecdote is that it doesn't
matter if you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better be
running.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid
Al Maktoum, Ruler of
Dubai, My Vision ? Challenges
in the Race for Excellence
He that is good for making excuses is
seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin
The world is becoming increasingly
interdependent. We need to think in
global terms.
The dogs bark, but the caravan passes
on.
Do not wish for quick results, nor look
for small advantages. If you seek quick
results, you will not reach the ultimate
goal. If you are led astray by small
advantages, you will never accomplish
great things.
Sometimes having a new idea simply
means stopping having an old idea.
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate
ambiguity.
I am the leader and all mistakes are
mine and all success belongs to the
team.
The tragedy of old age is not that one is
old but that one is young.
No matter how well you perform
there's always somebody of intelligent
opinion who thinks it's lousy.
The heart has its reasons of which
reason itself knows nothing.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny
but in ourselves.
My idea of courtesy is this: It is the
habit of respecting other people's
feelings under all circumstances; the
habit of going out of one's way to help
any less fortunate person whenever
and wherever possible; and last, but by
no means least, the habit of controlling
selfishness in all its forms.
The U.S. Auto Industry was the perfect
example of an industry where the
barriers to exit were higher than the
barriers to entry, as new competitors
continued to come along.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
No man is a free man until he learns to
do his own thinking and gains the
courage to act on his own personal
initiative.
Technology I can get. Money I have.
But if you don't have reserves and
production, nobody can help you!
There is no refuge from confession but
suicide; and suicide is confession.
Daniel Webster
Happiness is beneficial for the body but
it is grief that develops the powers of
the mind.
Marcel Proust
Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor
fancy riches.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If one could recover the
uncompromising spirit of one's youth,
one's greatest indignation would be for
what one has become.
André Gide
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for
you never know how soon it will be too
late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer does not change God, but it
changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
To one who has faith, no explanation is
necessary. To one without faith, no
explanation is possible.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
You don't have to deserve your
mother's love. You have to deserve
your father's. He's more particular.
Robert Frost
Death is nothing to us, since when we
are, death has not come, and when
death has come, we are not.
Epicurus
Pay attention to your enemies, for they
are the first to discover your mistakes.
Antisthenes
The cleverly expressed opposite of any
generally accepted idea is worth a
fortune to somebody.
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Death twitches my ear. 'Live,' he says;
'I am coming.'
Virgil
Real disarmament cannot come unless
the nations of the world cease to exploit
one another.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is ultimately a cruel
misunderstanding of youth to believe it
will find its heart's desire in freedom.
Soren Kierkegaard
Cooperation and friendship are two
assets that can be had only by first
giving them.
Andrew Carnegie
Don't limit a child to your own
learning, for he was born in another
time.
Anonymous
A father is a banker provided by
nature.
Anonymous
Young men think old men are fools; but
old men know young men are fools.
George Chapman
The poor man's wisdom is despised and
his words are not heard.
Ecclesiastes 9:16
Old and young, we are all on our last
cruise.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Every person who develops an
attractive personality must study his
own voice and place it under control so
he can make it convey any feeling he
desires.
Andrew Carnegie
We have a passion for keeping things
simple.
Charles Munger
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
There must certainly be a vast fund of
stupidity in human nature, else men
would not be caught as they are, a
thousand times over, by the same
snare, and while they yet remember
their past misfortunes, go on to court
and encourage the causes to which they
are owing, and which will again
produce them.
A new scientific truth does not triumph
by convincing its opponents and
making them see the light, but rather
because its opponents eventually die
and a new generation grows up that is
familiar with it.
Life is a series of natural and
spontaneous changes. Don't resist
them - that only creates sorrow. Let
reality be reality. Let things flow
naturally forward in whatever way
they like.
The deepest principle in human nature
is the craving to be appreciated.
If you want to avoid irrationality, it
helps to understand the quirks in your
own mental wiring and then you can
take appropriate precautions.
We who seek justice will have to do
justice to others.
God does not test us only with need, but
also with abundance.
Arabic Wisdom
One who is too insistent on his own
views, finds few to agree with him.
Would you persuade, speak of interest
not of reason.
There is no duty more indispensable
than that of returning a kindness. All
men distrust one forgetful of a benefit.
The art of being wise is the art of
knowing what to overlook.
Never work either for useless goals, or
impossible ones.
He who does not trust enough, Will not
be trusted.
Lao Tzu
The difficulty lies not in the new ideas,
but in escaping the old ones, which
ramify, for those brought up as most of
us have been, into every corner of our
minds.
John Maynard Keynes
Men's natures are alike; it is their
habits that carry them far apart.
Confucius
I think it's a huge mistake not to absorb
elementary worldly wisdom if you're
capable of doing it because it makes
you feel better to serve others, it makes
you better able to serve yourself and it
makes life more fun'I'm passionate
about wisdom. I'm passionate about
accuracy and some kinds of curiosity.
Charles Munger
The most astonishingly incredible
coincidence imaginable would be the
complete absence of all coincidences.
John Allen Paulos
You can, for example, never foretell
what any man will do, but you can say
with precision what an average
number will be up to. Individuals vary,
but percentages remain constant. So
says the statistician.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The height of ability consists in a
thorough knowledge of the true value of
things.
Francois Duc de la
Rochefoucauld
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion. These
three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu
A man should never be ashamed to own
that he has been in the wrong, which is
but saying, in other words, that he is
wiser today than he was yesterday.
John Maynard Keynes
Talk to a man about himself and he will
listen for hours.
Benjamin Disraeli
Have the courage of your knowledge
and experience. If you have formed a
conclusion from the facts and if you
know your judgment is sound, act on it
- even though others may hesitate or
differ. (You are neither right nor
wrong because the crowd disagrees
with you. You are right because your
data and reasoning are right.)
Benjamin Graham
It is easier to be wise after the event.
Sherlock Holmes
He that would live in peace and at ease,
must not speak all he knows, nor just
all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin
To know that we know what we know,
and that we do not know, what we do
not know; that is true knowledge.
Confucius
We only give a couple of instructions to
people when they go to work for us:
One is to think like an owner. And the
second is to tell us bad news
immediately'because good news takes
care of itself. We can take bad news,
but we don't like it late.
Warren Buffett
It does not matter what your title is, it's
about what you do. One should not
look at titles, but rather at
achievements.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid
Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai
It is only when a person gets into
difficulty that one can truly see his
heart.
Chinese Proverb
Anyone who wishes to be cured of
ignorance must first admit to it.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what
you reward for. If you want ants to
come, you put sugar on the floor.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all
possible objections must first be
overcome.
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace
can give it to others.
I would say if Charlie and I have any
advantage it's not because we're so
smart, it is because we're rational and
we very seldom let extraneous factors
interfere with our thoughts. We don't
let other people's opinion interfere with
it'we try to get fearful when others are
greedy. We try to get greedy when
others are fearful. We try to avoid any
kind of imitation of other people's
behavior. And those are the factors
that cause smart people to get bad
results.
By letting it go it all gets done. The
world is won by those who let it go. But
when you try and try, the world is
beyond the winning.
Perhaps the most valuable result of all
education is the ability to make yourself
do the thing you have to do when it
ought to be done whether you like it or
not. It is the first lesson that ought to
be learned and however early a
person's training begins, it is probably
the last lesson a person learns
thoroughly.
The attention which we lend to an
experience is proportional to its vivid
or interesting character; and it is a
notorious fact that what interests us
most vividly at the time is, other things
equal, what we remember best.
Ask the experienced rather than the
learned.
Strength does not come from physical
capacity. It comes from indomitable
will.
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better
for reputation to fail conventionally
than to succeed unconventionally.
Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.
An ideal is one thing; living up to it is
quite another'We may be said to have
an ideal only when we put forth an
effort to realize it.
Because of a great love, one is
courageous.
Probability is the very guide of life.
He that builds before he counts the cost,
acts foolishly; And he that counts
before he builds, finds he did not county
wisely.
Be happy while you are living, for you
are a long time dead.
Kill one, frighten ten thousand.
The public have an insatiable curiosity
to know everything, except what is
worth knowing.
I have often regretted my speech, never
my silence.
The right to search for truth'implies
also a duty; one must not conceal any
part of what one has recognized to be
true.
It is clear, then, that wisdom is
knowledge having to do with certain
principles and causes. But now, since it
is this knowledge that we are seeking,
we must consider the following point:
of what kind of principles and of what
kind of causes is wisdom the
knowledge?
The books that the world calls immoral
are books that show the world its own
shame.
It is remarkable how much long-term
advantage people like us have gotten by
trying to be consistently not-stupid,
instead of trying to be very intelligent.
There must be some wisdom in the folk
saying: 'It's the strong swimmers who
drown.'
A man who has committed a mistake
and doesn't correct it, is committing
another mistake.
What the human being is best at doing
is interpreting all new information so
that their prior conclusions remain
intact.
I have the true feeling of myself only
when I am unbearably unhappy.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not
long-lived. Truth is the child of time;
erelong she shall appear to vindicate
thee.
I love you the more that I believe you
have liked me for my own sake and for
nothing else.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves
behind only the slime of a new
bureaucracy.
Many persons have the wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness. It is
not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy
purpose.
The block of granite which was an
obstacle in the path of the weak,
becomes a stepping stone in the path of
the strong.
We have no more right to consume
happiness without producing it than to
consume wealth without producing it.
Hide the good you do, and make known
the good done to you.
Actions will be judged according to
intentions.
Others fear what the morrow may
bring. I am afraid of what happened
yesterday.
For the person in concord with Unity,
everything prospers; to one who has no
personal interest, even the spirits are in
obeisance.
The force of character is cumulative.
Good values are like a magnet'they
attract good people.
We are what we repeatedly do.
No man who smiled with so much of his
heart would knowingly hurt or harm
another.
The worst thing you can do for those
you love is the things they could and
should do for themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing will bring you peace except
yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What difference does it make to the
dead, the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is
wrought under the name of
totalitarianism or the holy name of
liberty and democracy?
When people speak to you about a
preventive war, you tell them to go and
fight it. After my experience, I have
come to hate war. War settles nothing.
Faithless is he that says farewell when
the road darkens.
All we have to decide is what to do with
the time that is given to us.
Am I not destroying an enemy when I
make a friend of him?
The wit makes fun of other persons; the
satirist makes fun of the world; the
humorist makes fun of himself, but in so
doing, he identifies himself with
people'that is, people everywhere, not
for the purpose of taking them apart,
but simply revealing their true nature.
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and
the world always yields; or if it beats
you sometimes, dare it again and it will
succumb.
The greater man the greater courtesy.
Many that live deserve death. And
some die that deserve life. Can you give
it to them? Then be not too eager to
deal out death in the name of justice,
fearing for your own safety. Even the
wise cannot sell all ends.
You see what power is'holding someone
else's fear in your hand and showing it
to them!
No passion in the world is equal to the
passion to alter someone else's draft.
Cast all your cares on God; that anchor
holds.
One of the reasons why we crave love,
and seek it so desperately, is that love is
the only cure for loneliness, and shame,
and sorrow. But some feelings sink so
deep into the heart that only loneliness
can help you find them again. Some
truths about yourself are so painful
that only shame can help you live with
them. And some things are just so sad
that only your soul can do the crying
for you.
One measure of leadership is the caliber
of people who choose to follow you.
Dennis A. Peer
You can't lead anyone else further than
you have gone yourself.
Gene Mauch
The government is best which governs
the least, because its people discipline
themselves.
Thomas Jefferson
Quarrels would not last long if the fault
was only on one side.
Francios de La Rochefoucauld
A person who loves himself has little
competition.
George C. Lichtenberg
It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps
up in peace. Were one half of mankind
brave and one cowards, the brave
would be always beating the cowards.
Were all brave, they would lead a very
uneasy life; all would be continually
fighting; but being all cowards, we go
on very well.
Samuel Johnson
All anger comes from weakness.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If you would stand well with a great
mind, leave him with a favorable
impression of yourself; if with a little
mind, leave him with a favorable
impression of himself.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you want other people to speak well
of you, do not speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal
The greatest fortune of a people would
be to keep ignorant persons from public
office, and secure their wisest men to
rule them.
Confucius
Conquer rage with humility, conquer
evil with goodness, conquer greed with
generosity, and conquer lies with truth.
Persian wisdom
A gunshot wound may be cured, but the
wound made by a tongue never heals.
Persian wisdom
Look at the sky, and at the earth, and
think that all things pass. All of the
mountains and rivers you see, and all
the forms of life, and all creations of
nature, all pass. Then you will
understand the truth; you will see what
remains, what does not pass.
Buddhist wisdom
To succeed in the world, it is much
more necessary to possess the
penetration to discern who is a fool
than to discover who is a clever man.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Opinion has caused more trouble on
this little earth than plagues or
earthquakes.
Voltaire
You cannot make a revolution with silk
gloves.
Joseph Stalin
All of the great leaders have had one
characteristic in common: it was the
willingness to confront unequivocally
the major anxiety of their people in
their time. This, and not much else, is
the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Adversity causes some men to break;
others to break records.
William A. Ward
If you are not too long, I will wait here
for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde
A good leader inspires others with
confidence in him; a great leader
inspires them with confidence in
themselves.
Unknown
Never trust the advice of a man in
difficulties.
Aesop
I see the Bad Moon arising. I see
trouble on the way? I hear the
hurricanes ablowing. I know the end is
coming soon. I fear rivers over
flowing. I hear the voice of rage and
ruin.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man does not keep pace with his
companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him
step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
It's unwise to pay too much, but it's
unwise to pay too little. When you pay
too much you lose a little money, that is
all. When you pay too little, you
sometimes lose everything, because the
thing you bought was incapable of
doing the thing you bought it to do. The
common law of business balance
prohibits paying a little and getting a
lot'it can't be done. If you deal with the
lowest bidder, it's well to add
something for the risk you run. And if
you do that, you will have enough to
pay for something better.
The thought that Dave was not coming
back waited in the back of her
consciousness, waited for the night
when she could lie alone and hold her
grief tightly to her. There was not time
for grief now, and she could not let
Janey know that hope was gone. Janey
was too young for that. She had no
experience with grief, none of the hard-
found knowledge that all things
change, that nothing remains the same.
In time Janey would know, but there
was time.
I went to the woods because I wished to
live deliberately, to front only the
essential facts of life, and see if I could
not learn what it had to teach, and not,
when I came to die, discover that I had
not lived.
If all misfortunes were laid in one
common heap whence everyone must
take an equal portion, most people
would be contented to take their own
and depart.
Say all you have to say in the fewest
possible words, or your reader will be
sure to skip them; and in the plainest
possible words or he will certainly
misunderstand them.
You are young, my son, and, as the
years go by, time will change and even
reverse many of your present opinions.
Refrain therefore awhile from setting
yourself up as a judge of the highest
matters.
Public opinion is a weak tyrant
compared with our own private
opinion. What a man thinks of himself,
that is which determines, or rather
indicates, his fate.
Be true to your work, your word, and
your friend.
Henry David Thoreau
Insanity is doing the same thing over
and over again and expecting different
results.
Albert Einstein
Do not be fooled into believing that
because a man is rich he is necessarily
smart. There is ample proof to the
contrary.
Julius Rosenwald
The death-knell of the republic had
rung as soon as the active power
became lodged in the hands of those
who sought, not to do justice to all
citizens, rich and poor alike, but to
stand for one special class and for its
interests as opposed to the interests of
others.
Theodore Roosevelt
The harder the conflict, the more
glorious the triumph. What we obtain
too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is
dearness only that gives everything its
value. I love the man that can smile in
trouble, that can gather strength from
distress and grow brave by the
reflection. 'Tis the business of little
minds to shrink; but he whose heart is
firm, and whose conscience approves
his conduct, will pursue his principles
unto death.
Thomas Paine
Treat a man as he appears to be, and
you make him worse. But treat a man
as if he were what he potentially could
be, and you make him what he should
be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God enters by a private door into every
individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool
will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
The price good men pay for indifference
to public affairs is to be ruled by evil
men.
Plato
Every nation ridicules other nations,
and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want to be respected by others
the great thing is to respect yourself.
Only by that, only by self-respect will
you compel others to respect you.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
You can discover more about a person
in an hour of play than in a year of
conversation.
Plato
I have discovered that all human evil
comes from this, man's being unable to
sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal
The ultimate result of shielding men
from the effects of folly is to fill the
world with fools.
Herbert Spencer
The highest reward for man's toil is not
what he gets for it, but what he
becomes by it.
John Ruskin
There is nothing worse than aggressive
stupidity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If a man is proud of his wealth, he
should not be praised until it is known
how he employs it.
Socrates
He that would make his own liberty
secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he violates this duty
he establishes a precedent that will
reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
The right question is usually more
important than the right answer to the
wrong question.
Alvin Toffler
If the Internet had been invented first,
do you think we'd have newspapers
today?
Warren Buffett
Nothing is easier than to denounce the
evildoer; nothing is more difficult than
to understand him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Do not go where the path may lead, go
instead where there is no path and
leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in
order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The only man who never makes a
mistake is the man who never does
anything.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is better to light one candle than to
curse that darkness.
Christopher Society Motto
Every great and commanding moment
in the annals of the world is the
triumph of some enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the
malady of the ignorant.
Bronson Alcott
A person's worth [is] tied to the way
others, both contemporaries and future
generations, perceive him.
Abraham Lincoln
First I was dying to finish high school
and start college. And then I was dying
to finish college and start working.
And then I was dying to marry and
have children. And then I was dying
for my children to grow old enough so I
could return to work. And then I was
dying to retire. And now, I am
dying'And suddenly realize I forgot to
live.
Anonymous
It is dangerous to be right when the
government is wrong.
Voltaire
If you temporize, you are lost.
Andrew Jackson
The last of the human freedoms'to
choose one's attitude in any given set of
circumstances, to choose one's own
way.
Viktor Frankl
To be wronged is nothing unless you
continue to remember it.
Confucius
We should rather examine, who is
better learned, than who is more
learned.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Veni, vidi, vici. [I came, I saw, I
conquered]
Julius Caesar
Sometimes too much to drink is barely
enough.
Mark Twain
The man who goes alone can start
today; but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau
Regard your good name as the richest
jewel you can possibly be possessed
of'for credit is like fire; when once you
have kindled it you may easily preserve
it, but if you once extinguish it, you will
find it an arduous task to rekindle it
again. The way to gain a good
reputation is to endeavor to be what
you desire to appear.
Socrates
Questions are never indiscreet, answers
sometimes are.
Oscar Wilde
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good judgment comes from experience,
and experience comes from bad
judgment.
Barry LePatner
There comes a time in a man's life when
to get where he has to go'if there are no
doors or windows'he walks through a
wall.
Bernard Malamud
It doesn't matter how beautiful your
theory is, it doesn't matter how smart
you are. If it doesn't agree with
experiment, it's wrong.
Richard Feynman
Discovery consists of seeing what
everybody has seen, and thinking what
nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgi
Nothing in the world can take the place
of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing
is more common than unsuccessful men
with talent. Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a
proverb. Education will not; the world
is full of educated derelicts. Persistence
and determination alone are
omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has
solved and always will solve the
problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
Having hope, means that one will not
give in to overwhelming anxiety, a
defeatist attitude, or depression in the
face of difficult challenges or setbacks.
[Hope is] more than the sunny view
that everything will turn out all right,
believing you have the will and the way
to accomplish your goals.
Daniel Goleman
Information is a source of learning.
But unless is it organized, processed,
and available to the right people in a
format for decision making, it is a
burden, not a benefit.
William Polland
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived:
Great Minds are Skeptical.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A human being is part of the whole
called by us universe, a part limited in
time and space. We experience
ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as
something separate from the rest. A
kind of optical delusion of
consciousness. This delusion is a kind
of prison for us, restricting us to our
personal desires and to affection for a
few persons nearest to us. Our task
must be to free ourselves from the
prison by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its
beauty'We shall require a substantially
new manner of thinking if mankind is
to survive.
Albert Einstein
Sometimes it is more important to
discover what one cannot do, than
what one can do.
Lin Yutang
Never confuse a single defeat with a
final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Seek out that particular mental
attribute which makes you feel most
deeply and vitally alive, along with
which comes the inner voice which
says, 'This is the real me,' and when you
have found that attitude, follow it.
William James
The man who backbites an absent
friend, nay, who does not stand up for
him when another blames him, the man
who angles for bursts of laughter and
for the repute of a wit, who can invent
what he never saw, who cannot keep a
secret'that man is black at heart: mark
and avoid him.
Cicero
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem
too lightly.
Thomas Paine
I hate quotations. Tell me what you
know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great man ever complains of want
of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When printing was invented, the great
mass of men'were utterly unconscious,
that their conditions, or their minds
were capable of improvement.
Abraham Lincoln
Everything that has a beginning has an
ending. Make your peace with that and
all will be well.
The Buddha
Only people who are capable of loving
strongly, can also suffer great sorrow;
but this same necessity of loving serves
to counteract their grief and heal them.
Leo Tolstoy
It takes your enemy and your friend,
working together, to hurt you to the
heart; the one to slander you and the
other to get the news to you.
Mark Twain
When science discovers the center of the
universe, a lot of people will be
disappointed to find they are not it.
Bernard Baily
You give but little when you give of
your possessions. It is when you give of
yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran
When a man speaks of his strength, he
whispers his weakness.
John M. Shanahan
The stupid neither forgive nor forget;
the naïve forgive and forget; the wise
forgive and do not forget.
Thomas Szasz
Against criticism a man can neither
protest nor defend himself; he must act
in spite of it, and then it will gradually
yield to him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Intuition becomes increasingly
valuable in the new information society
precisely because there is so much data.
John Naisbitt
The more you try to avoid suffering, the
more you suffer because smaller things
begin to torture you in proportion to
your fear of suffering.
Thomas Merton
A human being, lives out not only his
personal life as an individual, but also,
consciously or subconsciously, the lives
of his epoch and his contemporaries'if
the times, themselves, despite all their
hustle and bustle, [do not offer
opportunity] the situation will have a
crippling effect.
Thomas Mann
I have found you an argument; I am
not obliged to find you an
understanding.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Il faut d'abord durer. Above all, endure.
Ernest Hemingway
Kindness is the language which the deaf
can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
Do things for others and you'll find
your self-consciousness evaporating
like morning dew on a Missouri
cornfield in July.
Dale Carnegie
Though we travel the world over to find
the beautiful, we must carry it with us
or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man takes the limits of his own
field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Common sense is the collection of
prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
To have doubted one's own first
principles is the mark of a civilized
man.
Oliver W. Holmes
The Confederates had fired the first
shot. A war had begun that no one
imagined would last four years and
cost greater than six hundred thousand
lives'more than the cumulative total of
all our other wars, from the Revolution
to Iraq. The devastation and sacrifice
would reach into every community,
into almost every family, in a nation of
31.5 million. In proportion to today's
population, the number of deaths would
exceed five million.
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures.
Forget everything except what you're
going to do now and do it.
William Durant
Speak little, do much.
Benjamin Franklin
Those who hate you don't win unless
you hate them'and then you destroy
yourself.
Richard M. Nixon
I had rather be right than be President.
Henry Clay
Facing it, always facing it, that's the
way to get through. Face it.
Joseph Conrad
There are no hopeless situations; there
are only people who have grown
hopeless about them.
Clare Boothe Luce
It is one of the most beautiful
compensations of this life that you
cannot sincerely try to help another
without helping yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speech is the great instrument of
ambition of real superiority, of leading
and directing the judgments and
conduct of other people.
Adam Smith
One heartbreak is like a thousand
lessons. Loving again is learning them.
Sandra McKendry
Man is unhappy because he doesn't
know he's happy. If anyone finds out
he'll become happy at once.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One forgives to the degree that one
loves.
La Rochefoucauld
Knowledge can be communicated but
not wisdom.
Herman Hesse
The complete irresponsibility of man
for his actions and his nature is the
bitterest drop which he who
understands must swallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When a deep injury is done us, we
never recover until we forgive.
Alan Paton
When we are no longer able to change
a situation'we are challenged to change
ourselves.
Viktor Frankl
Do what you can, with what you have,
where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is not the strongest of the species that
survives, nor the most intelligent, but
the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
Always forgive your enemies'nothing
annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Great success in the world, great
authority over the sentiments and
opinions of mankind, have very seldom
been acquired without some degree of
excessive self-admiration.
Adam Smith
You cannot manage outcomes, you can
only manage risk.
Peter Bernstein
Most people return small favors,
acknowledge medium ones, and repay
great ones'with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin
Great deeds have very remote
consequences.
John Ruskin
Behold the turtle. He makes progress
only when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant
Oh! It is excellent to have a giant's
strength; but it is tyrannous to use it
like a giant.
William Shakespeare
Some of your friends praise you, and
others blame and criticize you; be
closer to those who blame you and
further from those who praise you.
The Talmud
Set the allowance against the loss and
thou shalt find no loss great.
Keep away from people who try to
belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great
make you feel that you, too, can become
great.
Mark Twain
There is nothing more to be esteemed
than a manly firmness and decision of
character. I like a person who knows
his own mind and sticks to it; who sees
at once what, in given circumstances, is
to be done, and does it.
William Hazlitt
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is
the absence of all pain.
Cicero
It is better by a noble boldness to run
the risk of being subject to half of the
evils we anticipate, than to remain in
cowardly listlessness for fear of what
may happen.
Herodotus
The strongest man in the world is he
who stands most alone.
Henrik Ibsen
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness
thou must not gratify it.
William Penn
The beginning of a quarrel is like water
trying to break through a dam. When
the dam is broken, you cannot stop the
current. And each quarrel begins with
words.
The Talmud
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in
our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An actor is something less than a man,
while an actress is something more
than a woman.
Richard Burton
Reader, suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of
Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
There is no distinctly American
criminal class'except Congress.
Mark Twain
Nothing that is worth knowing can be
taught.
Oscar Wilde
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you you
are wrong. There are always
difficulties arising which tempt you to
believe that your critics are right. To
map out a course of action and follow it
to an end, requires some of the same
courage which a soldier needs. Peace
has its victories, but it takes brave men
to win them.
Ralph Waldo
He that can heroically endure adversity
will bear prosperity with equal
greatness of soul; for the mind that
cannot be dejected by the former is not
likely to be transported with the latter.
Henry Fielding
Watch a man with scrutiny when his
will is crossed, and his desires
disappointed. The quality of spirit he
reveals at that time will determine the
character of the man.
Richard T. Williams
I know of myself that I do not wish to
do evil. If I do evil, it is because I
cannot restrain myself. It is the same
with other people: they usually do evil
because they cannot restrain
themselves from evil. Therefore, why
do I think badly of other people? Why
should I blame them?
Leo Tolstoy
Physical courage, which despises all
danger, will make a man brave in one
way; and moral courage, which
despises all opinion, will make a man
brave in another.
Charles Caleb Colton
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be
done.
Marie Curie
Don't expect to build up the weak by
pulling down the strong.
Calvin Coolidge
When the mouse laughs at the cat,
there's a hole nearby.
Nigerian proverb
It is the minority that have stood in the
van of every moral conflict, and
achieved all that is noble in the history
of the world.
John B. Gough
Death twitches my ear. 'Live, he says, 'I
am coming.'
Virgil
It is easier to cope with a bad
conscience than with a bad reputation.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Man will do many things to get himself
loved, he will do all things to get
himself envied.
Mark Twain
The merit of a man is not in the
knowledge he possesses, but in the
effort he made to achieve it.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
If our democracy is to flourish, it must
have criticism; if our government is to
function it must have dissent.
Henry Commager
Where is there dignity unless there is
honesty?
Cicero
That case is strong which has, not a
multitude, but one strong man behind
it.
James Russell Lowell
The world which is arising is still half-
buried in the ruins of the world falling
into decay'and no one can know which
of the old institutions'will continue to
hold up their heads and which in the
end will go under.
Alexis de Tocqueville
We're seeing 21 century freight flows
st
trying to fit into a 19 century rail
th
network.
Roger Nober, former chairman
of the Surface Transportation
Board
I am not young enough to know
everything.
Oscar Wilde
You'll break the worry habit the day
you decide you can meet and master
the worst that can happen to you.
Arnold Glasow
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible
to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Those who know the rules of true
wisdom are baser than those who love
them. Those who love them are baser
than those who follow them.
Chinese Proverb
A stupid person should keep silent. But
if he knew this, he would not be a stupid
person.
Muslih-ud-Din Saadi
Knowledge is limitless. Therefore, we
cannot say that a person who knows a
great deal knows more than another
who knows very little.
Leo Tolstoy
Everywhere I look, I see the conspiracy
of the rich, who, under the pretext of
helping the poor, seek out any
advantage and profit only for
themselves.
Sir Thomas More
The efforts which we make to escape
from our destiny only serve to lead us
into it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever you see a successful business,
someone once made a courageous
decision.
Peter Drucker
No matter how well you perform
there's always somebody of intelligent
opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier
of Brighton
Genius'means little more than faculty of
perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
The old law about 'an eye for an eye'
leaves everybody blind.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my
father was so ignorant I could hardly
stand to have the old man around. But
when I got to be twenty-one, I was
astonished by how much he'd learned in
seven years.
Mark Twain
He who is afraid of a thing gives it
power over him.
A person lives two lives at the same
time, material and spiritual, for each of
which there are laws. The law of
material life is work. The law of
spiritual life is love. If you break the
law of material life, that is, work, then
inevitably you will break the law of
spiritual life, that is, love.
Leo Tolstoy
The man who sees both sides of a
question is a man who sees absolutely
nothing at all.
Oscar Wilde
Go after a man's weakness, and never,
ever, threaten unless you're going to
follow through, because if you don't, the
next time you won't be taken seriously.
Roy M. Cohn
Feedback has to be built into the
decision to provide a continuous
testing, against actual events, of the
expectations that underlie the decision.
Decisions are made by people. People
are fallible; at their best, their works do
not last long. Even the best decision
has a high probability of being wrong.
Even the most effective one eventually
becomes obsolete.
Thomas Jefferson
Read over your composition, and when
you meet a passage which you think is
particularly fine, strike it out.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
I don't know the key to success, but the
key to failure is trying to please
everybody.
Bill Cosby
It is not these well-fed long-haired men
that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-
looking.
Julius Caesar
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to
seem foolish.
Aeschylus
I have never been hurt by anything I
didn't say.
Calvin Coolidge
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of
the eye; the more light you pour upon
it, the more it will contract.
Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.
Every great advance in natural
knowledge has involved the absolute
rejection of authority.
Thomas Henry Huxley
Everyone is a prisoner of his own
experiences. No one can eliminate
prejudices'just recognize them.
Edward Roscoe Murrow
There is a time for departure even
when there's no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams
We often give our enemies the means
for our own destruction.
Aesop
Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be
furious, is to be frightened out of fear.
William Shakespeare
We are always paid for our suspicion
by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau
One-half of the troubles of this life can
be traced to saying yes too quickly and
not saying no soon enough.
Josh Billings
When a dog runs at you, whistle for
him.
Henry David Thoreau
The courage of the tiger is one, and of
the horse another.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If fear is cultivated it will become
stronger. If faith is cultivated it will
achieve the mastery. We have a right
to believe that faith is the stronger
emotion because it is positive whereas
fear is negative.
John Paul Jones
Because your own strength is unequal
to the task, do not assume that it is
beyond the powers of man; but if
anything is within the powers and
province of man, believe that it is
within your own compass also.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Never take counsel of your fears.
Andrew Jackson
Our doubts are traitors and cause us to
miss the good we oft might win by
fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
The words, 'aut bene, aut nihil', are
understood to mean, 'About the dead
say only good or say nothing.' This is
wrong. One should say the opposite.
'About the living say only good, or say
nothing.' Doing this would save us
from many mistakes and from mixing
up what is good with what is evil.
Leo Tolstoy
There is nowhere on earth, not the sky,
the sea, or the mountaintops, where a
person can be rid of evil if he lets it into
his heart. You need to remember this.
Indian proverb
Pay attention to your enemies, for they
are the first to discover your mistakes.
Antisthenes
Inferiors revolt in order that they may
be equal, and equals that they may be
superior. Such is the state of mind
which creates revolutions.
Aristotle
All my best thoughts were stolen by the
ancients.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How strange! We become angry at the
evil around us, which we cannot
change, yet we do nothing to conquer
the evil inside us, which we can.
Leo Tolstoy
The price of oil is setting the price for
food simply because if the fuel value of
a commodity exceeds its value as food,
it will be converted into fuel.
Lester Brown, Plan B 2.0
Never forget what a man says to you
when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher
Never tell people how to do things. Tell
them what to do and they will surprise
you with their ingenuity.
George Smith Patton
While the world has had many years of
experience in feeding an additional 70
million or more people each year, it has
no experience with some 5 billion
people wanting to move up the food
chain at the same time.
Lester Brown, Plan B 2.0
You should respect all people, but you
should have one hundred times more
respect for a child than any adult, so
you do not damage the purity of a
child's spirit.
Leo Tolstoy
Travel has no longer any charm for
me. I have seen all the foreign
countries I want to except for heaven
and hell, and I have only a vague
curiosity as concerns one of those.
Mark Twain
A stout man's heart breaks bad luck.
Miguel De Cervantes
Everybody's friend is nobody's.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a
request for money is the most chilling
and havoc-wreaking.
Gustave Flaubert
Character and personal force are the
only investments that are worth
anything.
Walt Whitman
Hope is brightest when it dawns from
fears.
Walter Scott
You don't know a woman until you
have had a letter from her.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You cannot run away from a
weakness. You must sometimes fight it
out or perish; and if that be so, why not
now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson
When your friends begin to flatter you
on how young you look, it's a sure sign
you're getting old.
Mark Twain
Be kind; every man you meet is fighting
a hard battle.
Ian Maclaren
To tremble before anticipated evils is to
bemoan what thou hast never lost.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is courage the world needs, not
infallibility'courage is always the surest
wisdom.
Wilfred T. Grenfell
Where there's marriage without love,
there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin
On one issue at least, men and women
agree; they both distrust women.
Henry Louis Mencken
There is a courageous wisdom; there is
also a false reptile prudence, the result,
not of caution, but of fear.
Edmund Burke
To feed the hungry, clothe the naked,
and visit and comfort the sick are all
good things, but there is one more
besides these: to help others get rid of
their prejudices, mistakes, and
erroneous views about life.
Leo Tolstoy
In their first passion women love their
lovers; in the others they love love.
François, Duc de La
Rochefoucauld
World Health Organization data
indicates that roughly 1.2 billion people
are undernourished, underweight, and
often hungry. At the same time,
roughly 1.2 billion people are
overnourished, and overweight, most of
them suffering from excessive caloric
intake and exercise deprivation. So
while 1 billion people worry whether
they will eat, another billion should
worry about eating too much.
Lester Brown, Plan B 2.0
Great occasions do not make heroes or
cowards; they simply unveil them to
the eyes of men. Silently and
imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we
grow strong or we grow weak, and at
last some crisis shows us what we have
become.
Good character is that quality which
makes one dependable whether being
watched or not, which makes one
truthful when it is to one's advantage to
be a little less than truthful, which
makes one courageous when faced with
great obstacles, which endows one with
the firmness of wise self-discipline.
The man who cannot believe in himself
cannot believe in anything else. The
basis of all integrity and character is
whatever faith we have in our own
integrity.
My message to you is: Be courageous!
I have lived a long time. I have seen
history repeat itself again and again. I
have seen many depressions in
business. Always America has come
out stronger and more prosperous. Be
as brave as your fathers before you.
Have faith! Go forward.
If appeasing our enemies is not the
answer, neither is hating them?
Somewhere between the extremes of
appeasement and hate there is a place
for courage and strength to express
themselves in magnanimity and
charity, and this is the place we must
find.
Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire,
threaten the threatener, and outface the
brow of bragging horror; so shall
inferior eyes, that borrow their
behaviors from the great, grow great
by your example and put on the
dauntless spirit of resolution.
The first rule of wisdom is to know
thyself. However, this is the most
difficult thing to do. The first rule of
virtue is to be happy with little things;
this, too, is hard to do. Only those
people who follow these rules can be
strong enough to be a virtuous example
for others.
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is: not to take the
risk. When once the risk has really
been taken, then the greatest danger is
to risk too much.
If one word is worth a coin, then silence
is worth two. If silence sits well with
those who are clever, then it should sit
even better with those who are stupid.
We receive three educations, one from
our parents, one from our
schoolmasters, and one from the world.
The third contradicts all that the first
two teach us.
The various admirable movements in
which I have been engaged have
always developed among their
members a large lunatic fringe.
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the
seller not one.
George Herbert
The proper office of a friend is to side
with you when you are wrong. Nearly
anybody will side with you when you
are right.
Mark Twain
Won't you come into the garden? I
would like my roses to see you.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
One does what one is; one becomes
what one does.
Robert von Musil
It is a very delicate job to forgive a
man, without lowering him in his
estimation, and yours too.
Josh Billings
We always like those who admire us;
we do not always like those whom we
admire.
Francois, Duc de La
Rochefoucauld
We judge ourselves by what we feel
capable of doing, while others judge us
by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No one can make you feel inferior
without your consent.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
He who has a thousand friends has not
a friend to spare, and he who has one
enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ali ibn-Abi-Talib
The time to begin writing an article is
when you have finished it to your
satisfaction. By that time you begin to
clearly and logically perceive what it is
you really want to say.
Mark Twain
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of truth and knowledge is
shipwrecked by the laughter of the
gods.
Albert Einstein
The radical of one century is the
conservative of the next. The radical
invents the views. When he has worn
them out, the conservative adopts them.
Mark Twain
If you want to know the truth, free
yourself from all thoughts of personal
profit, and then make your decision.
Leo Tolstoy
If you want to know what a man is
really like, take notice how he acts
when he loses money.
Marcus Aurelius
How much time he gains who does not
look to see what his neighbor says or
does or thinks, but only at what he does
himself, to make it just and holy.
Marcus Aurelius
Temptation is a woman's weapon and
a man's excuse.
H.L. Mencken
The man who is a pessimist before 48
knows too much, if he is an optimist
after it, he knows too little.
Mark Twain
Hell hides behind pleasure, paradise
hides behind work and trouble.
Muhammad
In an argument, you are not arguing
for truth but for yourself.
Thomas Carlyle
Good marriages produce good children.
Leo Tolstoy
If we need to force people to obey
justice by using violence, it is not true
justice.
Blaise Pascal
A scholar is a person who may have
spent a long period of time learning,
but this does not mean he has learned
anything or that he is clever enough to
do so.
George C. Lichtenberg
It is impossible for a man to be cheated
by anyone but himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more damaging to a new
truth than an old error.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The cruelest lies are often told in
silence.
Adlai Stevenson
Laws control the lesser man'Right
conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain
Experience keeps a dear school, but
fools will learn in no other and scarce
in that; for it is true, we may give
advice, but we cannot give conduct.
Benjamin Franklin
I am the wisest man alive, for I know
one thing, and that is that I know
nothing.
Socrates
Never listen to those who blame others
and speak well about you.
Leo Tolstoy
Never blame your neighbor until you
have been in his place.
The Talmud
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted
to be true by everyone, and (b) that is
not true.
H.L. Mencken
The more a person analyzes his inner
self, the more insignificant he seems to
himself. This is the first lesson of
wisdom. Let us be humble, and we will
become wise. Let us know our
weakness, and it will give us power.
William Ellery Channing
Virtue always lasts longer than other
qualities, and it always starts from the
beginning.
Immanuel Kant
Rather, it is your crimes that separate
you from God, and it is your sins that
make him hide his face so that he will
not hear you. For your hands are
stained with blood, your fingers with
guilt; your lips speak falsehood, and
your tongue utters deceit.
Isaiah 59:2-3
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you
tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison
us, do we not die? And if you wrong us,
shall we not revenge?
Leo Tolstoy
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can
only make them think.
Socrates
People tend to be proud of things for
which they should be ashamed, such as
their wealth or power over others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We lie to other people so often that we
get used to it, and we start to lie to
ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Let us live so that when we come to die
even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
To accomplish great things, we must
not only act, but also dream; not only
plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
The best lack all conviction, while the
worst are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats
I hold that while man exists it is his
duty to improve not only his own
condition, but to assist in ameliorating
mankind; and therefore, without
entering upon the details of the
question, I will simply say that I am for
those means which give the greatest
good to the greatest number.
Abraham Lincoln
Many stupid things are uttered by
people whose only motivation is to say
something original.
Voltaire
Who is a wise man? He who studies all
the time. Who is strong? He who can
limit himself. Who is rich 'He who is
happy with what he has.
The Talmud
There are two types of ignorance, the
pure, natural ignorance into which all
people are born, and the ignorance of
the so-called wise. You will see that
many among those who call themselves
scholars do not know real life, and they
despise simple people and simple
things.
Blaise Pascal
Pessimist: One who, when he has the
choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
You can stand firm in a fight against
everything except kindness.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
We can love neither those whom we
fear nor those who fear us.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
One becomes older in order to become
kinder; there is no mistake which I
have not already made.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What the wise man does in the
beginning, the fool does in the end.
If they give you ruled paper, write the
other way.
Most people are other people. Their
thoughts are someone else's opinions,
their lives a mimicry, their passions a
quotation.
Oscar Wilde
Virtue would go far if vanity did not
keep it company.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have been thinking that I would make
a proposition to my Republican
friends? that if they will stop telling lies
about the Democrats, we will stop
telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson
I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life
insurance, I needed a vacation, I
needed a home in the country. What I
had was a coat, a hat, and a gun.
Raymond Chandler?s Philip
Marlowe
I took a speed-reading course and read
'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It
involves Russia.
Woody Allen
Never trust the advice of a man in
difficulties.
Aesop
It is easier to fight for one's principles
than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry Adams
No passion so effectually robs the mind
of all its powers of acting and
reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of
the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not
become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
By failing to prepare you are preparing
to fail.
Benjamin Franklin
No arsenal, or no weapon in the
arsenals of the world, is so formidable
as the will and moral courage of free
men and women.
Ronald Reagan
You have all the characteristics of a
popular politician: a horrible voice, bad
breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes
All human actions have one or more of
these seven causes: chance, nature,
compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and
desire.
Aristotle
Democracy means government by
discussion, but it is only effective if you
can stop people talking.
Clement Atlee
It is no use saying 'we are doing our
best', you have to succeed in doing what
is necessary.
Winston Churchill
There is no such uncertainty as a sure
thing.
Robert Burns
This is a court of law, young man, not a
court of justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is perfectly monstrous the way
people go about, nowadays, saying
things against one behind one's back
that are absolutely and entirely true.
Oscar Wilde
If you are not too long, I will wait here
for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde
Why can we remember the tiniest detail
that has happened to us, and not
remember how many times we have
told it to the same person?
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
I always cheer up immensely if an
attack is particularly wounding
because I think, well, if they attack one
personally, it means they have not a
single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher
Like all weak men he laid an
exaggerated stress on not changing
one's mind.
William Somerset Maugham
Anything important is never left to the
vote of the people. We only get to vote
on some man; we never get to vote on
what he is to do.
Will Rogers
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a
man should challenge me, I would take
him kindly and forgivingly by the hand
and lead him to a quiet place and kill
him.
Mark Twain
You must live for another if you wish to
live for yourself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You know what the Englishman's idea
of compromise is? He says, some
people say there is a God. Some people
say there is no God. The truth probably
lies somewhere between these two
statements.
William Butler Yeats
Ships that pass in the night, and speak
to each other in passing, only a signal
shown, and a distant voice in the
darkness; so on the ocean of life, we
pass and speak to one another, only a
look and a voice, then darkness again
and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A good leader inspires others with
confidence in him; a great leader
inspires them with confidence in
themselves.
Unknown
Everyone imposes his own system as
far as his army can reach.
Joseph Stalin
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Shakespeare
The best way to be boring is to leave
nothing out.
Voltaire
When our relatives are at home, we
have to think of all their good points or
it would be impossible to endure them.
But when they are away, we console
ourselves for their absence by dwelling
on their vices.
George Bernard Shaw
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism
to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
If I had a formula for bypassing
trouble, I would not pass it round.
Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.
I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad
as treating it as an enemy. But I do say
meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of
it and had better to be on speaking
terms with it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Do you know the difference between a
beautiful woman and a charming one?
A beauty is a woman you notice, a
charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E. Stevenson
It's surprising how many persons go
through life without ever recognizing
that their feelings toward other people
are largely determined by their feelings
toward themselves, and if you're not
comfortable within yourself, you can't
be comfortable with others.
Sydney J. Harris
I have seen the beauty of good, and the
ugliness of evil, and have recognized
that the wrongdoer has a nature
related to my own'not of the same
blood or birth, but the same mind, and
possessing a share of the divine. And so
none of them can hurt me. No one can
implicate me in ugliness.
Marcus Aurelius
If a state is governed by the principles
of reason, poverty and misery are
subjects of shame; if a state is not
governed by the principles of reason,
riches and honors are the subjects of
shame.
Confucius
The line separating good and evil
passes not through states, nor between
political parties either'but right
through every human heart.
Aleksandr Isayevich
Solzhenitsyn
He had taken milk from a kitten and
had it turn to a raging mountain lion
before his eyes.
Louis L?Amour The Long Ride
Home
The good cannot seize power, nor
retain it; to do this men must love
power. And love of power is
inconsistent with goodness; but quite
consistent with the very opposite
qualities'pride, cunning, cruelty.
Leo Tolstoy
Believe nothing, no matter where you
read it, or who said it, even if I have
said it, unless it agrees with your own
reason and your own common sense.
Gautama Buddha
We shall find peace. We shall hear the
angels, we shall see the sky sparkling
with diamonds.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not bring me your successes; they
weaken me. Bring me your problems;
they strengthen me.
Charles F. Kettering
The first rule is to keep an untroubled
spirit. The second is to look things in
the face and know them for what they
are. Vex not thy spirit at the course of
things; they heed not thy vexation.
How ludicrous and outlandish is
astonishment at anything that may
happen in life.
Marcus Aurelius
Fu Bu Guo San Dai. (Wealth can't last
more than three generations.)
Chinese Proverb
There is no more miserable human
being than one in whom nothing is
habitual but indecision.
William James
Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred
years hence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence is the element in which great
things fashion themselves together.
Thomas Carlyle
To those people in the huts and villages
of half the globe struggling to break the
bonds of mass misery, we pledge our
best efforts to help them help
themselves, for whatever period is
required, not because the Communists
may be doing it, not because we seek
their votes, but because it is right. If a
free society cannot help the many who
are poor, it cannot save the few who
are rich.
John F. Kennedy
It is time for writers to admit that
nothing in this world makes sense.
Only fools and charlatans think they
know and understand everything. The
stupider they are, the wider they
conceive their horizons to be. And if an
artist decides to declare that he
understands nothing of what he
sees'this in itself constitutes a
considerable clarity in the realm of
thought, and a great step forward.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
We are all born ignorant, but one must
work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin
Adversity causes some men to break;
others to break records.
William A. Ward
One measure of leadership is the caliber
of people who choose to follow you.
Dennis A. Peer
If we go on explaining we shall cease to
understand one another.
Charles Maurice de
Talleyrand-Perigord
Men are more easily governed through
their vices than through their virtues.
Napolean Bonaparte
The final estimate of men shows that
history cares not an iota for the rank or
title a man has borne, or the office he
has held, but only the quality of his
deeds and the character of his mind
and heart.
Samuel Brengel
Great spirits have often encountered
violent opposition from weak minds.
Albert Einstein
Every person has within himself the
capability to understand the life of all
humanity. This capability is hidden
deep in the soul, but it exists, and
sooner or later, a person will find it.
Edward Carpenter
We only confess our little faults to
persuade people that we have no big
ones.
Francois de La Rouchefoucauld
The man who reads nothing at all is
better educated than the man who
reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
Every saint has a past and every sinner
has a future.
Oscar Wilde
There are thousands of ways which
lead to deception, and there is only one
way which leads to the truth.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In those countries where wise people
are in power, their subjects do not
notice the existence of their rulers.
Lao-Tzu
We are not satisfied with our real life.
We want to live an imaginary life, a life
in which we seem different in the eyes
of other people than we are in reality.
Blaise Pascal
It is difficult if not impossible to find
some reasonable limit for acquiring
more and more property.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The measure of a great leader, is their
success in bringing everyone around to
their opinion twenty years later.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of happiness is freedom.
And the secret of freedom is courage.
Pericles as quoted by
Thucydides
Gu Wei Jin Yong, Yang Wei Zhong Yon.
(Make the past serve the present, make
foreign things serve China.)
A slogan from the Qing
Dynasty that was often quoted
by Mao
The more urgently you want to speak,
the more likely it is that you will say
something foolish.
Leo Tolstoy
The quality of a really virtuous person
is to be unknown to people, or to be
misunderstood by people, but not to be
disappointed by this.
Chinese wisdom
You seek the cause of evil, and it is only
in yourself.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
A wise man has doubts even in his best
moments. Real truth is always
accompanied by hesitations. If I could
not hesitate, I could not believe.
Henry David Thoreau
Look for the truth; it wants to be found.
Blaise Pascal
Truly kind people forget the good
things they have done in the past. They
are so involved in the things they do
now that they forget the things they
have done before.
Chinese Wisdom
Every man becomes what he teaches
others to be. Those who gain victory
over themselves will gain victory over
others. It is most difficult to achieve
victory over oneself. Every man has
power only over himself.
Ernest Hemingway
When a stupid man is doing something
he is ashamed of, he always declares
that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw
You know that the Tasmanians, who
never committed adultery, are now
extinct.
William Somerset Maugham
Thinking too well of people often allows
them to be better than they otherwise
would.
Arthur Schopenhauer
In real life, illusions can only transform
our life for a moment, but in the
domain of thoughts and the intellect,
misconceptions may be accepted as
truth for thousands of years, and make
a laughingstock of whole nations, mute
the noble wishes of mankind, make
slaves from people and lie to them.
These misconceptions are the enemies
with which the wisest men in the
history of mankind try to struggle. The
force of the truth is great, but its victory
is difficult. However, once you receive
this victory, it can never be taken from
you.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Love, friendship, respect, will never
unite people as much as a common
hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and
everywhere the ceremony of innocence
is drowned.
William Butler Yeats
You never know how much you really
believe anything until its truth or
falsehood becomes a matter of life or
death to you.
C.S. Lewis
You cannot make a revolution with silk
gloves.
Joseph Stalin
Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The men who create power make an
indispensable contribution to the
nation's greatness, but the men who
question power make a contribution
just as indispensable, especially when
that questioning is disinterested, for
they determine whether we use power
or power uses us.
John F. Kennedy
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as
an angel, sweet as love.
Charles de Talleyrand
He that displays too often his wife and
his wallet is in danger of having both of
them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin
You should abstain from arguments.
They are very illogical ways to
convince people. Opinions are like
nails: the stronger you hit them, the
deeper inside they go.
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
The person does not exist to whom you
cannot do good.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Apology is only egotism wrong side
out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Opinion has caused more trouble on
this little earth than plagues or
earthquakes.
Voltaire
I am not young enough to know
everything.
Oscar Wilde
We cannot conceive of matter being
formed of nothing, since things require
a seed to start from'Therefore, there is
not anything which returns to nothing,
but all things return dissolved into their
elements.
William Shakespeare
Most people would succeed in small
things if they were not troubled with
great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Government is not reason; it is not
eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a
dangerous servant and a fearful
master.
George Washington
We should every night call ourselves to
an account: what infirmity have I
mastered today? What passions
opposed? What temptation resisted:
What virtue acquired: Our vices will
abate of themselves if they be brought
every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Woe to that nation whose literature is
cut short by the intrusion of force. This
is not merely interference with freedom
of the press but the sealing up of a
nation's heart, the excision of its
memory.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a
lion. The whole secret of government
lies in knowing when to be the one or
the other.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ideas are more powerful than guns.
We would not let our enemies have
guns, why should we let them have
ideas.
Joseph Stalin
The final test of a leader is that he
leaves behind him in other men the
conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann
Example is not the main thing in
influencing others, it is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
A good leader is a person who takes a
little more than his share of the blame
and a little less than his share of the
credit.
John C. Maxwell
Not everything that counts can be
counted, and not everything that can be
counted counts.
Albert Einstein
Have a heart that never hardens, a
temper that never tries, and a touch
that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
High school graduates should work for
at least five years before going on to
college.
Peter Drucker
The more corrupt the state, the more
numerous the laws.
Tacitus
Money often costs too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For
with what judgment ye judge, ye shall
be judged: and with what measure ye
mete, it shall be measured to you
again.
Matthew 7:1-2
No individual completely acquires the
experience of another, but if even a
small part may be carried over to the
next generation, much time can be
saved. In technical ways, methods of
working and such, knowledge has been
passed on, but too few have learned
from experience. I remember my
father once saying that perhaps in the
future some device might be
constructed into which all historical
knowledge could be fed, particularly all
knowledge of government, of
diplomacy, of statecraft, and then this
device might tell us what mistakes have
been continually made and what
situations to avoid.
Men have passed on the knowledge of
how to mix cement, lay brick, splice a
line, navigate a ship, make steel, and
dozens of other crafts, yet in politics,
statecraft, and social relationships we
continue to repeat old mistakes.
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't
marry.
Anton Chekhov
Any society that would give up a little
liberty to gain a little security will
deserve neither and lose both.
Benjamin Franklin
Give me your help and your hand, and
your voice and your vote.
John F. Kennedy
To succeed in the world, it is much
more necessary to possess the
penetration to discern who is a fool
than to discover who is a clever man.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
The great majority of us are required to
live a life of constant, systematic
duplicity. Your health is bound to be
affected if, day after day, you say the
opposite of what you feel, if you grovel
before what you dislike and rejoice at
what brings you nothing but
misfortune. Our nervous system isn't
just a fiction, it's a part of our physical
body, and our soul exists in space and is
inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It
can't be forever violated with impunity.
Boris Pasternak
We should always try to find those
things which do not separate us from
other people but which unite us. To
work against each other, to be angry
and turn your back on each other, is to
work against nature.
Marcus Aurelius
Every desire abates, and every vice
grows after it is satisfied.
Henri Amiel
Someone told me once that every
person has an element of good and an
element of bad within him, and that
either the good or the bad can be
manifested according to the person's
mood. We possess within us two
different ways of understanding this
world. One is the feeling of being
divided, distanced, and alienated from
each other; in this state, all things seem
gloomy to us. We feel nothing except
jealousy, indifference, and hatred. I
would like to call the opposite way of
understanding the understanding of
universal unification. In this state, all
people seem very close to us, and all are
equal among themselves. This state,
therefore, arouses compassion and love
in us.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Do not be interested in the quantity of
people who respect and admire you,
but in their quality. If bad people
dislike you, so much the better.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A wise man was asked what was the
most important time, person, and thing
in life. He answered, 'The most
important time is the present time,
because at this time a person has power
over himself. The most important
person is the one with whom you deal
at present, because there is no
guarantee that you will ever be able to
deal with any other person in this
world. The most important thing is to
love this person, because everyone is
sent into this world with the sole
purpose of loving other people.'
Leo Tolstoy
A person filled with vanity is so
involved with himself that there is no
room inside for anyone or anything
else.
Pan
In the long run'no conscious will can
ever replace the life instinct.
Carl Jung
There is no difficulty that enough love
will not conquer; no disease that
enough love will not heal; no door that
enough love will not open; no gulf that
enough love will not bridge; no wall
that enough love will not throw down;
no sin that enough love will not
redeem? It makes no difference how
deeply seated may be the trouble; how
hopeless the outlook; how muddled the
tangle; how great the mistake. A
sufficient realization of love will
dissolve it all. If only you could love
enough you would be the happiest and
most powerful being in the world.
Emmet Fox
A new philosophy, a way of life, is not
given for nothing. It has to be paid
dearly for and only acquired with much
patience and great effort.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles
is not a realist.
David Ben-Gurion
People ask me what I'd most appreciate
getting for my 87 birthday. I tell them,
th
a paternity suit.
George Burns
Be strict in judging yourself and gentle
in judging others, and you will have no
enemies.
Chinese wisdom
You know's well as I do if a woman sets
her cap for a man he ain't got a chance.
Only if he runs. That's all! Either give
up and marry the gal or get clean out of
the country and don't leave no address
behind. Nor no trail sign, either! You
might fool some young sprout with that
he-hasn't-asked-me business, but not
me. I seen many young buck Indians
give twenty head of ponies for some
squaw when he could have had better
ones for ten. Just because she wanted
him like, and caused him to figure the
price was cheap. No, sir! I'd rather try
to get away from a bear trap on each
foot and each hand, than a woman with
her head set on marriage.
Robert E. Lee
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Old Age should burn and rave at close
of day; rage, rage against the dying of
the light.
Dylan Thomas
What saves a man is to take a step.
Then another step.
C.S. Lewis
To be strong, you have to be like water:
if there are no obstacles, it flows; if
there is an obstacle, it stops; if a dam is
broken, then it flows further; if a vessel
is square, then it has a square form; if a
vessel is round, then it has a round
form. Because it is so soft and flexible,
it is the most necessary and the
strongest thing.
Lao-Tzu
Look at the sky, and at the earth, and
think that all things pass. All of the
mountains and rivers you see, and all
the forms of life, and all creations of
nature, all pass. Then you will
understand the truth; you will see what
remains, what does not pass.
Buddhist wisdom
You will find that people unwilling to
work will either take advantage of
others or be humiliated by them.
Leo Tolstoy
Everything is indefinite, misty, and
transient; only virtue is clear, and it
cannot be destroyed by any force.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
A man comes into the world with his
hands pushed into fists, as if he wants
to say, 'All this world is mine.' A man
leaves this world with his palms open,
as if to say, 'Look, I take nothing with
me.'
The Talmud
A wise man sets requirements only for
himself; an unwise man makes
requirements for others.
Chinese wisdom
For whosoever exalteth himself shall be
abased; and he that humbleth himself
shall be exalted.
Luke 14:11
The American Indians had no laws, no
punishments, and no government.
They obeyed the moral understanding
of good and evil that is part of every
human nature.
Thomas Jefferson
You cannot submit to evil without
allowing evil to grow. Each time the
good are defeated, or each time they
yield, they only cause the forces of evil
to grow stronger. Greed feeds greed,
and crime grows with success. Our
giving up what is ours merely to escape
trouble would only create greater
trouble for someone else.
Only when we forget what we were
taught do we start to have real
knowledge.
The bravest sight in the world is to see
a great man struggling against
adversity.
A gunshot wound may be cured, but the
wound made by a tongue never heals.
A wise man was told that he was
considered to be a bad person. He
answered, 'It is good that they do not
know everything about me, because
otherwise they could say worse things
about me.'
In the long run, there is only one subject
worthy of study, and this is the
different forms of transformation of the
spirit. All other subjects and studies
can be brought to these basic things.
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime,
but spare the right'it holds my golden
time!
Speeches that are measured by the hour
will die with the hour.
He is a hard man who is only just, and
a sad one who is only wise.
True friendship is a plant of slow
growth, and must undergo and
withstand the shocks of adversity,
before it is entitled to the appellation.
The higher the position you occupy
among other people, the more humble
you should be. Many people live in
height and glory, but the mysteries of
this world can be revealed only to those
who are humble.
Your enemy will pay you back with
rage, will make you suffer, but the
biggest damage to you will be caused
by the rage and hatred existing in your
heart. Neither your father, nor your
mother, nor all your family can make
you more good than your heart can
when it forgives and forgets its abuse.
If you throw some nuts and cookies on
a road, you will eventually see children
come, pick them up, and start to argue
and fight for them. Adults would not
fight for such things. And even children
would not pick up the nuts' empty
shells. For a wise man, the wealth, the
glory, and the rewards of this world
are like sweets or empty shells on a
road. Let the children pick them up and
fight for them. Let them kiss the hands
of the rich men, the rulers, and their
servants. For the wise one, all these are
but empty shells.
Nothing will bring you peace except
yourself.
He who understands my music can
never know unhappiness again.
I don't want to achieve immortality
through my work. I want to achieve
immortality through not dying.
Try to understand and remember that
a person always tries to do what is best
for himself. And if he is right when he
does the best thing for himself, it is
good; but if he is mistaken, it is bad,
because suffering will follow after such
mistakes.
Epictetus
If you remember this, then you will
never be upset by anybody, you will
never reproach anybody and you will
never be an enemy to anybody.
Epictetus
No man should have to walk the earth
alone. A man should have a mate, to
share his luck and his strength, but his
sorrows as well. He had seen a
Blackfoot squaw fight to her death
beside the wounded body of her mate,
and he had come upon a Chinese
woman alone in the hills, giving birth
to her child while her man worked five
hundred feet underground to earn
money to support them. Life had flavor
when people had such courage.
Strange how it was always the spoiled
who weakened and cried first, and it
was the injured, the maimed, the blind,
and the poor who fought on alone.
Everyone takes the limits of his own
vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Make everything as simple as possible,
but no simpler.
Albert Einstein
All progress is based upon a universal
innate desire on the part of every
organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler
When an arrow does not hit its target,
the marksman blames himself, not
another person. A wise man behaves in
the same way.
Confucius
If you would like to know how to
recognize a prophet look to him who
gives you the knowledge of your own
heart.
Persian wisdom
The only way to tell the truth is to speak
with kindness. Only the words of a
loving man can be heard.
Henry David Thoreau
If you want other people to speak well
of you, do not speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal
Those people who have nothing to lose
are very rich.
Chinese proverb
Even a thin sword cannot cut soft silk.
Using tender words and kindness, you
can lead an elephant with a hair.
Muslih-ud-din Saadi
You should think in such a way that
everybody could look into your soul
and see what is transpiring there.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Do not wish for death just because your
life is hard. All the burdens on your
shoulders will help you fulfill your
destiny. The only way to get rid of your
burdens is to live your life in such a
way that you will fulfill your destiny.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can make a person's soul softer
than the understanding of his own
blame, and nothing can make one
harder than the desire always to be
right.
The Talmud
Conquer rage with humility, conquer
evil with goodness, conquer greed with
generosity, and conquer lies with truth.
Zanizad Rafaezsky
The worst mistake which was ever
made in this world was the separation
of political science from ethics.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
We are so accustomed to disguise
ourselves to others that in the end we
become disguised to ourselves.
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
The rivers and seas are the masters of
the valleys across which they flow. This
is because they are lower than the
valleys. In the same way, a person who
wants to be higher than other people
should be lower than they; if he wants
to guide people, he should be below
them.
Lao Tzu
Man alone is born crying, lives
complaining, and dies disappointed.
There are no coincidences, either in life
or in one's fate. A man creates his own
destiny.
Abel Villemain
We often want one thing and pray for
another, not telling the truth even to the
gods.
It does not matter how slowly you go so
long as you do not stop.
All anger comes from weakness.
Those who criticize me behind my back
are afraid of me; those who praise me
to my face hate me.
The soft and tender roots of a plant can
make their way through the hardest
soil, even the cracks in a rock. Love
works in the same way; nothing can
resist love.
The passions caused by sexual
attraction seem like tiny shining lights
above a swamp. They lure us into the
bog, and then disappear.
Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
As we grow old'the beauty steals
inward.
If you would stand well with a great
mind, leave him with a favorable
impression of yourself; if with a little
mind, leave him with a favorable
impression of himself.
There is no lonelier man in death,
except the suicide, than that man who
has lived many years with a good wife
and then outlived her. If two people
love each other there can be no happy
end to it.
No question is so difficult to answer as
that to which the answer is obvious.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault
was only on one side.
A compassionate man is never rich.
But a rich man has no compassion.
A person who loves himself has little
competition.
God gives suffering to those he loves.
When I was young, I wanted to know
about science. I then learned almost
everything a person could know. When
I grew old and looked at everything I
had learned, I knew my life had passed
and I knew nothing.
Someone with only a little is not poor.
The poor one is the one who wants
more than he already has.
It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps
us in peace. Were one half of mankind
brave and one cowards, the brave
would be always beating the cowards.
Were all brave, they would lead a very
uneasy life; all would be continually
fighting; but being all cowards, we go
on very well.
Every form of addiction is bad, no
matter whether the narcotic be alcohol
or morphine or idealism.
Gambling is the child of avarice, the
brother of iniquity, and the father of
mischief.
In this world a man must either be
anvil or hammer.
If it were done whe 'tis done, there
'twere well it were done quickly.
As long as a woman can look ten years
younger than her own daughter, she is
perfectly satisfied.
Those who can make you believe
absurdities can make you commit
atrocities.
The advertisement is the most truthful
part of a newspaper.
Several years before birth, advertise for
a couple of parents belonging to long-
lived families.
How soon we forget
history'Government is not reason.
Government is not eloquence. It is
force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous
servant and a fearful master.
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a
discrepancy between the genius and his
human qualities that one has to ask
oneself whether a little less talent might
not have been better.
Every man who attacks my belief,
diminishes in some degree my
confidence in it, and therefore, makes
me uneasy; and I am angry with him
who makes me uneasy.
What difference does it make how much
you have? What you do not have
amounts to much more.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we
didn't learn a lot today, at least we
learned a little, and if we didn't learn a
little, at least we didn't get sick, and if
we got sick, at least we didn't die, so, let
us all be thankful.
Leadership and learning are
indispensable to each other.
Don't aim at success'the more you aim
at it and make it a target, the more you
are going to miss it. For success, like
happiness, cannot be pursued; it must
ensue'as the unintended side effect of
one's personal dedication to a cause
greater than oneself.
Most of our faults are more pardonable
than the means we use to conceal them.
That government is best which governs
the least, because its people discipline
themselves.
Man can climb to the highest summits,
but he cannot dwell there long.
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at
least a favorable reference to the devil
in the House of Commons.
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by
the experience of others?
Always forgive your enemies, nothing
annoys them so much.
Farewell, fair cruelty.
Tired mothers find that spanking takes
less time than reasoning and penetrates
sooner to the seat of the memory.
People ask the difference between a
leader and a boss. The leader works in
the open, and the boss in covert. The
leader leads, and the boss drives.
There go my people. I must find out
where they are going so I can lead
them.
You can't lead anyone else further than
you have gone yourself.
Never think that war, no matter how
necessary, nor how justified, is not a
crime.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard
words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We are all travelers in the wilderness of
this world, and the best we can find in
our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
In every major economic downturn in
U.S. history, the villains have been the
heroes during the preceding boom.
Peter Drucker
A single conversation across the table
with a wise man is better than ten
years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The devil can cite Scripture for his
purpose.
William Shakespeare
The years like great black oxen tread
the world, and God, the herdsman
goads them on behind, and I am broken
by their passing feet.
William Butler Yeats
The cruelest lies are often told in
silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There are very few people who are not
ashamed of having been in love when
they no longer love each other.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The real voyage of discovery consists
not in seeing new landscapes but in
having new eyes.
Proust
Those who cast the votes decide
nothing. Those who count the votes
decide everything.
Josef Stalin
The last sound on the worthless earth
will be two human beings trying to
launch a homemade spaceship and
already quarreling about where they
are going next.
William Faulkner
I am reserving two tickets for you for
my premier. Come and bring a friend'if
you have one.
George Bernard Shaw
We shall draw from the heart of
suffering itself the means of inspiration
and survival.
Winston Churchill
The worst crimes were dared by a few,
willed by more and tolerated by all.
Tacitus
An eye for an eye and soon the whole
world is blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
A fond kiss, and then we sever; A
farewell, and then forever! Deep in
heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
waring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.
Who shall say that fortune grieves him,
while the star of hope she leaves him?
Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,
dark despair around benights me.
Robert Burns
Clocks slay time'time is dead as long as
it is being clicked off by little wheels;
only when the clock stops does time
come to life.
William Faulkner
The best way to predict the future is to
create it.
Peter F. Drucker
Woe to him who teaches men faster
than they can learn.
Will Durant
Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a
politician who has lost his job, save
only a retired stud-horse.
H.L. Mencken
Friendship is the marriage of the soul,
and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Voltaire
Though we travel the world over to find
the beautiful, we must carry it with us
or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The flute of the infinite is played
without ceasing, and its sound is love.
Kabir
You can always count on Americans to
do the right thing'after they've tried
everything else.
Winston Churchill
The definition of a beautiful woman is
one who loves me.
Sloan Wilson
Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and
makes us feel that we have grasp'd an
immortality.
William Shakespeare
A thing is not necessarily true because
a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only
way to get at truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jealousy springs more from love of self
than from love of another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If I were hanged on the highest hill,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I
know whose love would follow me still
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
Rudyard Kipling
But I, being poor, have only my
dreams; I have spread my dreams
under your feet; Tread softly because
you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
The things most people want to know
about are usually none of their
business.
George Bernard Shaw
And He shall judge among the nations,
and shall rebuke many people: and
they shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into
pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up
sword against nation, neither shall they
learn war any more.
Isaiah 2:4
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all
the world were watching.
Thomas Jefferson
To say nothing, especially when
speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Will Durant
People are always blaming their
circumstances for what they are. I
don't believe in circumstances. The
people who get on in this world are the
people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and, if they
can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
And beauty is a form of genius'is
higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs
no explanation. It is of the great facts
of the world, like sunlight, or spring
time, or the reflection in dark waters of
that silver shell we call the moon. It
cannot be questioned. It has its divine
right of sovereignty. It makes princes
of those who have it.
Oscar Wilde
A woman can be proud and stiff when
on love intent; but love has pitched his
mansion in the place of excrement; for
nothing can be sole or whole that has
not been rent.
William Butler Yeats
People ask for criticism, but they only
want praise.
William Somerset Maugham
In the sky, there is no distinction of east
and west; people create distinctions out
of their own minds and then believe
them to be true.
Buddha
What love we've given, we'll have
forever. What love we fail to give, will
be lost for all eternity.
Leo Buscaglia
Love often leads on to ambition, but
seldom does one return from ambition
to love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill
The most interesting thing in the world
is another human being who wonders,
suffers and raises the questions that
have bothered him to the last day of his
life, knowing he will never get the
answers.
Will Durant
For the sin they do by two and two they
must pay for one by one.
Rudyard Kipling
Society has arisen out of the works of
peace; the essence of society is
peacemaking. Peace and not war is the
father of all things.
Ludwig von Mises
Nobody ever went broke
underestimating the taste of the
American public.
H.L. Mencken
Experience is one thing you can't get for
nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Suit the action to the word, the word to
the action.
William Shakespeare
When you are old and gray and full of
sleep, and nodding by the fire, take
down this book and slowly read, and
dream of the soft look your eyes had
once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats
It's a shame that the only thing a man
can do for eight hours a day is work.
He can't eat for eight hours; he can't
drink for eight hours; he can't love for
eight hours. The only thing a man can
do for eight hours is work.
William Faulkner
The cruelest lies are often told in
silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
We learn resignation not by our own
suffering, but by the suffering of others.
William Somerset Maugham
Democracy is the art and science of
running the circus from the monkey
cage.
H.L. Mencken
A man never tells you anything until
you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with most people is that
they think with their hopes or fears or
wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye
on offices, a rottenness begins in his
conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to
succeed. If one remains as careful at
the end as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
Lao Tzu
The passions are the only orators which
always persuade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We make a living by what we get, but
we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that
loves us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Forget your personal tragedy. We are
all bitched from the start and you
especially have to be hurt like hell
before you can write seriously. But
when you get the damned hurt, use
it'don't cheat with it.
Ernest Hemingway
The body is a house of many windows:
there we all sit, showing ourselves and
crying on the passers-by to come and
love us.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the
collective wisdom of individual
ignorance.
H.L. Mencken
Wherever you go, go with all your
heart.
Confucius
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
A man's moral conscience is the curse
he had to accept from the gods in order
to gain from them the right to dream.
William Faulkner
When it is a question of money,
everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire
Every real thought on every real
subject knocks the wind out of
somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
True leadership consists first and
foremost in being led. This conception
involves a profound paradox. True
leaders are not in any important sense
initiators; rather they are chiefly
responders to the Divine Will. This
means that the chief determinant of
authentic leadership is not human
talent, but availability to the Divine.
The only authentic leadership is Divine
fellowship.
Society of Friends of the Truth,
London 1960
When leadership ceases to be spirit-led,
it ceases to be authentic.
Society of Friends of the Truth,
London 1960
I always avoid prophesying
beforehand, because it is a much better
policy to prophesy after the event has
already taken place.
Winston Churchill
Each party steals so many articles of
faith from the other, and the candidates
spend so much time making each
other's speeches, that by the time
election day is past, there is nothing
much to do save turning the sitting
rascals out and let a new gang in.
H.L. Mencken
What makes old age hard to bear is not
the failing of one's faculties, mental and
physical, but the burden of one's
memories.
Landlord of a bordello! The company's
good and the mornings are quiet, which
is the best time to write.
William Faulkner
Every man's life ends the same way. It
is only the details of how he lived and
how he died that distinguish one man
from another.
Ernest Hemingway
Whoever wants peace among nations
must seek to limit the state and its
influence most strictly.
Ludwig von Mises
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling
In the course of my life, I have often
had to eat my words, and I must
confess that I have always found it a
wholesome diet.
Winston Churchill
Go to your bosom; knock there, and ask
your heart what it doth know.
William Shakespeare
Tread softly because you tread on my
dreams.
William Butler Yeats
This life's dim windows of the soul
distorts the heavens from pole to pole
and leads you to believe a lie when you
see with, not through, the eye.
William Blake
It is not time or opportunity that is to
determine intimacy'it is disposition
alone. Seven years would be
insufficient to make some people
acquainted with each other, and seven
days are more than enough for others.
Jane Austen
Everything happens to everybody
sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
The way to get things done is not to
mind who gets the credit for doing
them.
Benjamin Jowett
It has been said that politics is the
second oldest profession. I have
learned that it bears a striking
resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
Transparency is a competitive weapon.
Jonathan Schwartz, Sun
Microsystems
When we see persons of worth, we
should think of equaling them; when we
see persons of a contrary character, we
should turn inwards and examine
ourselves.
Confucius
Peace comes from within. Do not seek
it without.
Buddha
It is true love as it is with ghosts;
everyone talks about it, but few have
seen it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Don't talk about what you have done or
what you are going to do.
Thomas Jefferson
The best and most beautiful things in
the world cannot be seen or even
touched'they must be felt with the
heart.
Helen Keller
I believe that man will not merely
endure. He will prevail. He is
immortal, not because he alone among
creatures has an inexhaustible voice,
but because he has a soul, a spirit
capable of compassion and sacrifice
and endurance.
William Faulkner
All things truly wicked start from
innocence.
Ernest Hemingway
Music in the soul can be heard by the
universe.
Leo Buscaglia
The easiest thing to be in the world is
you. The most difficult thing to be is
what other people want you to be.
Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia
Those who are possessed by nothing
possess everything.
Morihei Ueshiba
What difference does it make to the
dead, the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is
wrought under the name of
totalitarianism or the holy name of
liberty and democracy?
Mahatma Ghandi
Bachelors know more about women
than married men; if they didn't they'd
be married too.
H.L. Mencken
Things fall apart; the centre cannot
hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the
world the blood-dimmed tide is loosed,
and everywhere the ceremony of
innocence is drowned; the best lack all
conviction, while the worst are full of
passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats
When you know a thing, to hold that
you know it, and when you do not know
a thing, to allow that you do not know
it'this is knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to
instruct him to hold in higher esteem
those who think alike than those who
think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are some things which cannot be
learned quickly, and time, which is all
we have, must be paid heavily for their
acquiring. They are simple things, and
because it takes a man's life to know
them, the little new that each man gets
from life is very costly and the only
heritage he has to leave.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling
there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as
seek to quench the fire of love with
words.
William Shakespeare
For take thy balance if thou be so wise
and weigh the wind that under heaven
doth blow; or weigh the light that in the
east doth rise; or weigh the thought
that from man's mind doth flow.
Voltaire
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
Herbert Spencer
The ultimate result of shielding men
from the effects of folly is to fill the
world with fools.
Herbert Spencer
Treat those who are good with
goodness, and also treat those who are
not good with goodness. Thus
goodness is attained. Be honest to those
who are honest, and be also honest to
those who are not honest. Thus honesty
is attained.
Lao Tzu
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson
It takes a great man to be a good
listener.
Calvin Coolidge
Suffering becomes beautiful when
anyone bears great calamities with
cheerfulness, not through insensibility
but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle
There are only two mistakes one can
make along the road to truth; not going
all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
The strength of a nation derives from
the integrity of the home.
Confucius
Of all that is written, I love only what a
person has written with his own blood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a
good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar Wilde
They shall grow not old, as we that are
left grow old; age shall not weary
them, nor the years condemn. At the
going down of the sun and in the
morning we will remember them.
Laurence Robert Binyon
By giving us the opinions of the
uneducated, journalism keeps us in
touch with the ignorance of the
community.
Oscar Wilde
Old people love to give good advice; it
compensates them for their inability to
set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What a heavy burden is a name that
has become too famous.
Voltaire
All that we are is the result of what we
have thought. If a man speaks or acts
with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure
thought, happiness follows him, like a
shadow that never leaves him.
Buddha
To the mind that is still, the whole
universe surrenders.
Lao Tzu
When a stupid man is doing something
he is ashamed of, he always declares
that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw
The man who goes alone can start
today; but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau
Absence doth sharpen love, presence
strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the
other blows it till it burns clear.
William Shakespeare
If thou shouldst never see my face
again, pray for my soul. More things
are wrought by prayer than this world
dreams of.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The two most powerful warriors are
patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
Nothing gives one person so much
advantage over another as to remain
always cool and unruffled under all
circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
I was only trying to live my life in
accordance with the principles which
sprang from my own true self. Why
was that so very difficult?
Hermann Hesse
I count him braver who overcomes his
desires than him who conquers his
enemies; for the hardest victory is over
self.
Aristotle
They must often change, who would be
constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is
shallow, does the enlightened man
dislike to wade into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The moment we want to believe
something, we suddenly see all the
arguments for it, and become blind to
the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw
When a woman marries again it is
because she detested her first husband.
When a man marries again, it is
because he adored his first wife.
Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Oscar Wilde
It is really foolish to be unhappy now
because you may be unhappy at some
future time.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nothing great was ever achieved
without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination grows by exercise, and
contrary to common belief, is more
powerful in the mature than in the
young.
W. Somerset Maugham
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in
groups, parties, nations and epochs, it
is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to
love. This is how the whole scheme of
things works. All good things are
difficult to achieve; and bad things are
very easy to get.
Confucius
To believe in God is impossible, not to
believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
Much unhappiness has come into the
world because of bewilderment and
things left unsaid.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The happiness of a man in this life does
not consist in the absence but in the
mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
No man is good enough to govern
another man without that other's
consent.
Abraham Lincoln
It is incumbent on every generation to
pay its own debts as it goes. A principle
which if acted on would save one-half
the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson
To lead people, walk beside them'As for
the best leaders, the people do not
notice their existence. The next best, the
people honor and praise. The next, the
people fear; and the next, the people
hate'When the best leader's work is
done'the people say, 'We did it
ourselves!'
Lao Tzu
The evil that men do lives after them;
the good is oft interred with their
bones.
William Shakespeare
They shall grow not old, as we that are
left grow old; age shall not weary
them, nor the years condemn. At the
going down of the sun and in the
morning we will remember them.
Laurence Robert Binyon
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may
deceive the cleverest and most
penetrating man, but the least wide-
awake of children recognizes it, and is
revolted by it, however ingeniously it
may be disguised.
Leo Tolstoy
The religion of the future will be a
cosmic religion. It should transcend
personal God and avoid dogma and
theology. Covering both the natural
and the spiritual, it should be based on
a religious sense arising from the
experience of all things natural and
spiritual as a meaningful unity.
Buddhism answers this description'If
there is any religion that could cope
with modern scientific needs it would
be Buddhism.
Albert Einstein
The only man who behaved sensibly
was my tailor; he took my
measurement anew every time he saw
me, while all the rest went on with their
old measurements and expected them
to fit me.
George Bernard Shaw
When you are content to be simply
yourself and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
Lao Tzu
In all history there is no war which was
not hatched by the governments, the
governments alone, independent of the
interests of the people, to whom war is
always pernicious even when
successful.
Leo Tolstoy
Nothing can stop the man with the
right mental attitude from achieving
his goal; nothing on earth can help the
man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but
if you want to test a man's character,
give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
If you would convince a man that he
does wrong, do right. Men will believe
what they see.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing in the world is more
dangerous than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If there is no God, everything is
permitted.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
In a country well governed, poverty is
something to be ashamed of. In a
country badly governed, wealth is
something to be ashamed of.
Confucius
Those who can make you believe
absurdities can make you commit
atrocities.
Voltaire
Three things cannot be long hidden; the
sun, the moon and the truth.
Buddha
If a woman possesses manly virtues
one should run away from her; and if
she does not possess them she runs
away from herself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If we had no faults of our own, we
should not take so much pleasure in
noticing those in others.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
But then I sigh, and with a piece of
scripture, tell them that God bids us do
good for evil. And thus I clothe my
naked villainy with odd old ends stolen
forth of holy writ, and seem I a saint,
when most I play the Devil.
William Shakespeare
Theirs is not to make reply; theirs is not
to reason why; theirs is but to do and
die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The world has enough for everyone's
needs, but not enough for everyone's
greed.
Mahatma Ghandi
When the iron bird flies, and horses run
on wheels, the Tibetan people will be
scattered like ants across the World,
and the Dharma [the teaching of the
Buddha] will come to the land of red-
faced people.
Only the wisest and stupidest of men
never change.
Confucius
How I live my life, that is my teaching.
Fedor Dostoevsky
Beauty is mysterious as well as
terrible. God and devil are fighting
there, and the battlefield is the heart of
man.
Fedor Dostoevsky
God is a comedian, playing to an
audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire
Women are made to be loved, not
understood.
Oscar Wilde
Love is life. All, everything that I
understand, I understand only because
I love. Everything is, everything exists,
only because I love. Everything is
united by it alone. Love is God, and to
die means that I, a particle of love, shall
return to the general and eternal
source.
Leo Tolstoy
Virtue has never been as respectable in
society as money.
Mark Twain
The liar's punishment is not in the least
that he is not believed, but that he
cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw
If a man does not keep pace with his
companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him
step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
Maids want nothing but husbands, and
when they have them, they want
everything.
William Shakespeare
How many people live on the
reputation of the reputation they might
have made.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I am not bound to win, but I am bound
to be true. I am not bound to succeed,
but I am bound to live by the light that I
have. I must stand with anybody that
stands right, and stand with him while
he is right, and part with him when he
goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
In matters of style, swim with the
current; in matters of principle, stand
like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy
or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha
What we call the beginning is often the
end. And to make an end is to make a
beginning. The end is where we start
from.
T.S. Eliot
No pessimist ever discovered the secret
of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted
land, or opened a new doorway for the
human spirit.
Helen Keller
Violence is the last refuge of the
incompetent.
Isaac Asimov
When virtue is lost, benevolence
appears, when benevolence is lost right
conduct appears, when right conduct is
lost, expedience appears. Expediency is
the mere shadow of right and truth; it
is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu
I have seen wicked men and fools, a
great many of both; and I believe they
both get paid in the end; but the fools
first.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Silence is one of the hardest arguments
to refute.
Josh Billings
Speech was given to man to disguise his
thoughts.
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
punish is powerful.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
When we put ourselves at the opposite
pole of ego, we are in the place where
God is.
Rabbi Abraham Joshua
Heschel
It is the eternal struggle between these
two principles'right and wrong. They
are the two principles that have stood
face to face from the beginning of time
and will ever continue to struggle. It is
the same spirit that says, 'You work
and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.'
Abraham Lincoln
Neurosis is always a substitute for
legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung
Advance, and never halt, for advancing
is perfection. Advance and do not fear
the thorns in the path, for they draw
only corrupt blood.
Kahlil Gibran
If parents would only realize how they
bore their children!
George Bernard Shaw
One of the penalties for refusing to
participate in politics is that you end up
being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
The higher the sun ariseth, the less
shadow doth he cast; even so the
greater is the goodness, the less doth it
covet praise; yet cannot avoid its
rewards in honors.
Lao Tzu
Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery.
Bravery leads to the spirit of self-
sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice
creates trust in the power of love.
Morihei Ueshiba
Those who never retract their opinions
love themselves more than they love the
truth.
Joseph Joubert
Words are only painted fire; a look is
the fire itself.
Mark Twain
Never speak ill of yourself, your friends
will always say enough on that subject.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
I sit on a man's back, choking him and
making him carry men, and yet assure
myself and others that I am very sorry
for him and wish to ease his lot by all
possible means'except by getting off his
back.
Leo Tolstoy
My strength has the strength of ten
because my heart is pure.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is always better to have no ideas than
false ones; to believe nothing, than to
believe what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
In love we often doubt what we most
believe.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Why can't somebody give us a list of
things that everybody thinks and
nobody says, and another list of things
that everybody says and nobody thinks.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
He who speaks without modesty will
find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius
There is nothing more dreadful than the
habit of doubt. Doubt separates
people. It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant
relations. It is a thorn that irritates
and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha
Goodness is the only investment that
never fails.
Henry David Thoreau
Whenever people agree with me I
always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
He is a hard man who is only just, and
a sad one who is only wise.
Voltaire
It is easy to look good in a boom. But
also, every boom'and I have lived and
worked through four or five'puts crooks
in at the top.
Peter Drucker
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a
walking shadow, a poor player that
struts and frets his hour upon the stage
and then is heard no more. It is a tale
told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
The whole secret of life is to be
interested in one thing profoundly and
in a thousand things well.
Horace Walpole
Write the bad things that are done to
you in sand, but write the good things
that happen to you on a piece of
marble.
Arabic proverb
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula
postero.
Horace
(Seize the day, put no trust in
tomorrow.)
Horace
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre
minds.
Albert Einstein
That which is hateful to you, do not do
to your neighbor: That is the Torah; the
rest is commentary; go and learn it!
Rabbi Hillel
The harder the conflict, the more
glorious the triumph. What we obtain
too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is
dearness only that gives everything its
value. I love the man that can smile in
trouble, that can gather strength from
distress and grow brave by reflection.
'Tis the business of little minds to
shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and
whose conscience approves his conduct,
will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
Ability is of little account without
opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Welcome anything that comes to you,
but do not long for anything else.
André Gide
What you do speaks so loudly that I
cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy is also a form of worship.
It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
H.L Mencken
There are truths which are not for all
men, nor for all times.
Voltaire
Advice is like snow'the softer it falls, the
longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it
sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor
When I was a child, my mother said to
me, 'If you become a soldier, you will
become a general. If you become a
monk, then you will end up as Pope.'
Instead, I became a painter, and wound
up as Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
Democratic nations must try to find
ways to starve the terrorist and the
hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on
which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher
Politics is the ability to foretell what is
going to happen tomorrow, next week,
next month and next year. And to have
the ability afterwards to explain why it
didn't happen.
Winston Churchill
If you are patient in one moment of
anger, you will escape a hundred days
of sorrow.
Chinese proverb
With anger, hatred, it is very difficult to
feel inner peace. It is on this point that
various different religious faiths all
have the same emphasis. In every
major world religion, the emphasis is
on brotherhood.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that
the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a
liar, but never doubt I love.
William Shakespeare
Being powerful is like being a lady. If
you have to tell people you are, you
aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
A lie which is half a truth is ever the
blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alimony'the ransom that the happy pay
to the devil.
H.L. Mencken
If you have ten thousand regulations
you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill
Go on making plays, my boy. One of
these days one of these London
producers will go into his office and say
to his secretary, 'Is there a play from
Shaw this morning?? and when she
says, 'No,? he will say, 'Well, then we'll
have to start on the rubbish.' And that's
your chance, my boy.
George Bernard Shaw
If something comes to life in others
because of you, then you have made an
approach to immortality.
Norman Cousins
She is such a good friend that she would
throw all her acquaintances into the
water for the pleasure of fishing them
out again.
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
Anger is an acid that can do more harm
to the vessel in which it is stored than to
anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain
Everything that irritates us about
others can lead us to an understanding
of ourselves.
Carl Jung
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Be still my heart; thou has known
worse than this.
Homer
It's clever, but is it Art?
Rudyard Kipling
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling
in two bodies.
Aristotle
You learn to speak by speaking, to
study by studying, to run by running,
to work by working; in just the same
way, you learn to love by loving.
Anatole France
Where the spirit does not work with the
hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci
The greatest happiness is to know the
source of unhappiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
All you need in this life is ignorance and
confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain
Who is wise in love, love most, say
least.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
To succeed in the world, it is much
more necessary to possess the
penetration to discern who is a fool,
than to discover who is a clever man.
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
In those days he was wiser than he is
now; he used to frequently take my
advice.
Winston Churchill
Woman begins by resisting a man's
advances and ends by blocking his
retreat.
Oscar Wilde
A metaphysician is one who, when you
remark that twice two makes four,
demands to know what you mean by
twice, what by two, what by makes,
and what by four. For asking such
questions metaphysicians are
supported in oriental luxury in the
universities, and respected as educated
and intelligent men.
H.L. Mencken
He's a man of great common sense and
good taste'meaning thereby a man
without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four
sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
Nature has never read the Declaration
of Independence. It continues to make
us unequal.
Will Durant
All mankind is divided into three
classes: those that are immovable,
those that are movable, and those that
move.
Benjamin Franklin
It is not enough to conquer; one must
learn to seduce.
Voltaire
How is the world ruled and how do
wars start? Diplomats tell lies to
journalists and then believe what they
read.
Karl Kraus
The motivation of all religious practice
is similar'love, sincerity, honesty. If we
put too much emphasis on our own
philosophy, religion, or theory and try
to impose it on other people, it makes
trouble.
As one grows older, one becomes wiser
and more foolish.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
By taking a second wife he pays the
highest compliment to the first, by
showing that she made him so happy as
a married man, that he wishes to be so
a second time.
Samuel Johnson
Always acknowledge a fault. This will
throw those in authority off their guard
and give you an opportunity to commit
more.
Mark Twain
How much pain they have cost us, the
evils which have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson
A church is a place in which gentlemen
who have never been to heaven brag
about it to persons who will never get
there.
H.L. Mencken
He knows nothing and thinks he knows
everything. That points clearly to a
political career.
George Bernard Shaw
No one knows whether death, which
people fear to be the greatest evil, may
not be the greatest good.
Plato
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside
a man while he lives'the death of
genuine feeling, the death of inspired
response, the awareness that makes it
possible to feel the pain or the glory of
other men in yourself.
Norman Cousins
The art of peace is not easy. It is a fight
to the finish, the slaying of all evil
desires and all falsehood within. On
occasion the voice of peace resounds
like thunder, jolting human beings out
of their stupor.
Ueshiba Sensei
He was a great patriot, a
humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided,
of course, he really is dead.
Voltaire
He has all the virtues I dislike and none
of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
A man of genius has been seldom
ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson
There is no subject so old that
something new cannot be said about it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Although nature commences with
reason and ends in experience it is
necessary for us to do the opposite, that
is to commence with experience and
from this to proceed to investigate the
reason.
Leonardo da Vinci
Excess generally causes reaction, and
produces a change in the opposite
direction, whether it be in the seasons,
or in individuals, or in governments.
Plato
Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Will Durant
Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside
while we live.
Norman Cousins
Few people think more than two or
three times a year; I have made an
international reputation for myself by
thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
He must be very ignorant for he
answers every question he is asked.
Voltaire
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers
which they dare not dismount. And the
tigers are getting hungry.
Winston Churchill
An education isn't how much you have
committed to memory, or even how
much you know. It's being able to
differentiate between what you know
and what you don't.
Anatole France
Love of glory can only create a great
hero; contempt of glory creates a great
man.
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
A man does not know what he is saying
until he knows what he is not saying.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
As it is the characteristic of great wits
to say much in few words, so small wits
seem to have the gift of speaking much
and saying nothing.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
All women become like their mothers.
That is their tragedy. No man does.
That's his.
Oscar Wilde
Am I not destroying enemies when I
make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us
in so many places, and meet us at so
many turns and corners, that what
they want in weight, they make up in
number, and render it less hazardous to
stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a
volley composed of such a shower of
bullets.
Rudyard Kipling
All human actions have one or more of
these seven causes: chance, nature,
compulsions, habit, reason, passion,
desire.
Aristotle
All men are frauds. The only difference
between them is that some admit it. I
myself deny it.
H. L. Mencken
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I
ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a
thousand times.
Mark Twain
Divorce is probably of nearly the same
date as marriage. I believe, however,
that marriage is some weeks more
ancient.
Voltaire
Democracy means simply the
bludgeoning of the people by the people
for the people.
Oscar Wilde
When Goldsmith began to write, he
determined to commit to paper nothing
but what was new; but he afterwards
found that what was new was
generally false, and from that time was
no longer solicitous about novelty.
Boswell
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a
wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
[The United States should] steer clear
of permanent alliances, with any
portion of the foreign world'trust to
temporary alliances for extraordinary
emergencies.
I.M. Pei
It was meaningful for me to build Hong
Kong's Bank of China tower because
the bank is part of my family. My
father worked there since 1910; the
bank chairman had to come to America
to ask my father for his permission.
Can you imagine? I was 60 years old,
and he had to ask my father, would he
consent to let his son design this
building for us? It's the Chinese way to
pay respect.
I.M. Pei
Some men change their party for the
sake of their principles; others their
principles for the sake of their party.
Winston Churchill
A man's success he can share with
others, his troubles are his own.
Louis L?Amour
Calvin Coolidge didn't say much, and
when he did he didn't say much.
Will Rogers
If the economy is good in 2005 and
2006, the world demand for oil is going
to go up. But it's the only group where
people are assuming prices will be
sharply lower next year. Everyone is
looking for oil prices to fall 25% to
30%. Even if they do, these companies
are going to earn a lot of money.
Peter Lynch
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Benjamin Franklin
I prefer to do right and get no thanks,
than to do wrong and receive no
punishment.
Marcus Cato
Never engage in a battle of wits with an
unarmed person.
Anonymous
An appeaser is one who feeds a
crocodile, hoping that it will eat him
last.'
Winston Churchill