Miscellaneous Quotations

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"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."

-H. G. Wells

"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning."

-Christopher Morley

"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse."

-Anne Swetchine

"It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good."

-T. S. Eliot

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

-Buckminster Fuller

"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."

-Thornton Wilder

"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers."

-James Baldwin

"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves."

-Ray Kroc

"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good."

-John Locke

"A moment's thinking is an hour in words."

-Thomas Hood

"Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay."

-Millard Fuller

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."

-Ed Howe

"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree."

-Thomas Fuller

"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."

-Napoleon

"Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability."

-Flower A. Newhouse

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."

-Baruch Spinoza

"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."

-G. C. Lichtenberg

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."

-Albert Pine

"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."

-John Kenneth Galbraith

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

-Winston Churchill

"Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people."

-Paul Duncun

"The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated."

-Henry Louis Mencken

"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."

-Jim Bishop

"You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance."

-W. Somerset Maugham

"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."

-William Gibson

"Good generally conquers evil. Unless, of course, good is stupid."

-unknown

"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."

-Alfred North Whitehead

"As far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

-Albert Einstein

"Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong."

-Hermann Weyl

"We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express."

-A. J. Ayer

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy."

-Albert Camus

"So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim."

-Aristotle

"They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses."

-Galileo Galilei

"Good sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks himself so well supplied with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in every other way do not usually desire more of it than they already have."

-René Descartes