Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. - Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cor

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu

There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal. - Sigfried Hulzer

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. - Flannery O'Connor

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them. - Henry Steele Commager

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.  - Charlotte Bronte

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.  - Johann W. von Goethe

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. - Dean William R. Inge

Education: a debt due from present to future generations.  - George Peabody

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning. - Carl Rogers

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. - Virginia Woolfe

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.  - William Ellery Channing

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. - Jonathan Kozol, On Being a Teacher, 1981

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.  - William Yeats

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. - John F. Kennedy

A child miseducated is a child lost. - John F. Kennedy

The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism. - Sir William Osler

The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character... - Sir William Osler

To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases. - Sir William Osler

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles... - Sir William Osler

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 the very simplest 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. - Ernest Hemingway

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. - W. Edwards Deming

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. - Letter accepting Presidential nomination, 1880 - James Abram Garfield

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.  - Brigham Young

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason. {from "The Comprachicos"} - Ayn Rand

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams.  - Sidney Madwed

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. - Brougham

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. - Mary Kay Ash

One of the chief objects of education should be to widen the windows through which we view the world. - Arnold Glasgow

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. - Robert Orben

The headmaster governs. The schoolteacher teaches. And let the pupils exercise creativity. - Chew Nai Chee

Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.  - Elliot Masie

Free should be the scholar - free and brave. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time was present for learners and teachers alike. - Kenneth Ludmerer

More than any other reason, quality in clinical education had depended on the presence of sufficient time in medical practice to allow learners to learn and teachers to teach. - Kenneth Ludmerer

...we have to shake off the ancient tyranny of two misconceptions about education that what is taught is learned; and what is not taught is not learned. - Daniel Federman

Assessment is arguably the most important stimulus for learning. - Ruth-Marie Fincher, MD

Part of a teacher's success depends on personality, and the common denominator in the personality of good teachers is their ability to stimulate students to work on problems when the teacher is not there. The teacher then checks the ability of the student to think rather than regurgitate facts. - J. Willis Hurst

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. (British Medical Journal 1995; vol 311, p. 485) - absenceDG Altman and MJ Bland

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. - Sir William Osler

College life was born in revolt. Not just the insubordination inherent in youth, but a wave of violent, collective uprisings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against the combined authority of college professors and presidents. (from her book, 'Campus Life') - Helen Horowitz

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. - Ayn Rand

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation. - John F. Kennedy

Education, n. One of the few things a fellow is willing to pay for and not get. - Leonard L. Levinson

The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint. - Sir William Osler

Only when we have something to value, will we have something to evaluate.. and we cannot value something that we cannot share, exchange and examine. - Lee Shulman

Failing to plan is a plan to fail. - Effie Jones

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.  - Chinese Proverb

The goal of education is to replace an empty mind with an open mind. - Malcolm Forbes

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

America's future walks through the doors of our schools every day. - Mary Jean LeTendre

The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing. - Robert J. Havighurst

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it... Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to and take it as your guide. - Buddhist Aphorism

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. - John Dewey

To teach is to create a space in which obedience to truth is practiced. - Abba Felix

If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers. - Alan Greenspan

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is. - Michael De Saintamo

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. - Helen Keller

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place. - Robert Schumann

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story. - Casey Stengel

Many of us are more capable than some of us . . . but none of us is as capable as all of us!! - Tom Wilson

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.  - Vince Lombardi

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done. - Peter Drucker

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something. - Sandra Day O'Connor

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.  - Napoleon Hill

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. - Vince Lombardi

Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it. - Peter F. Drucker

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. - Andrew Carnegie

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. - Henry Ford

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. - Shakespeare

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be. - Gladys Taber

The years teach what the days never know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

No person will have the occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. - Thomas Jefferson

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. - Will Durant

Most people spend more time and energy in going around problems than in trying to solve them. - Henry Ford

After you've done a thing for two years, you should look at it carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. After ten years, throw it away and start all over. - Alfred E. Perlman

Time and thinking tame the strongest grief. - English proverb

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.  - Benjamin Disraeli

While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind - friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance. - Louis Kronenberger

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose. - Thomas Edison

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. - Charles F. Kettering

Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. - Lord Chesterfield

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains. - Marcel Proust

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of the nonessentials. - Lin Yutang

Let the past drift away with the water. - Japanese saying

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. - The Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1

If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time - which means overreaching them. - Juan Ramon Jimenez

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

Time is money. - Benjamin Franklin

Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure. - Richard Iannelli

We do not remember days, we remember moments. - Cesare Pavese

Never let yesterday use up too much of today. - Will Rogers

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.  - Zora Neale Hurston

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence. - Henry Ford II

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. - George Eliot

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.  - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.  - Dalai Lama

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.  - Carnegie, Dale

Eternity is just Time on an ego trip.  - Lily Tomlin

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 the very simplest 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. - Ernest Hemingway

Time past and time future, what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. - T.S. Eliot

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. - Henry David Thoreau

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. - Henry David Thoreau

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground. - T.S. Eliot

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. - Heraclitus

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning. - Henry Ward Beecher

Each of us has the same quantity of the most precious commodity in the world -- time. - Ted Janusz

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. - Dale Carnegie

What you promise today must be renewed and redecided tomorrow and each day that stretches out before you.  - Arthur Gordon

We work not to produce but to give value to time. - Eugene Delacroix

How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of spring. - Edwin Teale

Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest clothes dressed. {from "On May"} - James Thomson

Ruminating about the past will get you nowhere. So go ahead and learn from the past whatever you can, and then put it behind you. Remember, there is nothing you can do to change it, but you can use its lessons to improve your future.  - Abraham J Twerski

The amount of sleep required by the average person is about 5 minutes more. - Max Kauffmann

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign. - Victor Hugo

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - Susan Ertz

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as...to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.  - Og Mandino

Wait for the wisest of all counselors: time. - Pericles

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies. (1600-1661 - Scottish Author and Minister) - Samuel Rutherford

Each new day presents us with the opportunity to live as though we never live before. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is promisory. Live today. That's all you've got. (written July 9, 2001) - Babatunde A Fajimi

Walking down the road of time, we may stop at a milepost and turn around to look where we have been. (Texas artist, quotation appeared in appeared in the February 1995 issue of SOUTHWEST ART) - Ancel Nunn

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. (from 'The Ship of Death') - D. H. Lawrence

Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future. {Swiss historian (1818-1897)} - Jakob Burckhardt

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. - Leonardo da Vinci

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. - Leonardo Da Vinci

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little left of it. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life. - P.W. Litchfield

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong as its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

To choose time is to save time. - Francis Bacon

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. - Alexander Woollcott

Time heals what reason cannot. - Seneca

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. - Auguste Rodin

The right man is the one who seizes the moment. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is time for everything. - Thomas Edison

It is later than you think. - Sundial inscription

Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life. - Ayn Rand

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise... - Sir William Osler

Time ripens all things, no man is born wise. - Miguel de Cervantes

The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions not very often. - Laura Palmer

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. - Sir Winston Churchill

Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment. - Dag Hammarskjold

I can't enjoy the present for documenting the past and planning for the future. - Diane Lawrence

What is traveling? Changing your place? By no means! Traveling is changing your opinions and your prejudices. - Anatole France

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.  - Sherwood Anderson

You never find yourself until you face the truth. - Pearl Bailey

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.  - Arthur James Balfour

The great seal of truth is simplicity.  - Herman Boerhaave

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. - Otto Von Bismarck

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without. - Robert Browning

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.  - Benjamin Disraeli

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. ~ - Albert Einstein

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.  - Epictetus

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it. ~ ~ - Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr

The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something... to see clearly it's poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one. - John Ruskin

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.  - George Eliot

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. - Friedrich Nietzsche

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolfe

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.  - Leo Tolstoy

Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others. - Francis Bacon

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. - Harriet Martineau

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. - Winston Churchill

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. - Joseph Campbell

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.  - Stephen R. Covey

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.  - Marden, Orison Swett

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. - William Blake

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. - Sir Thomas Browne

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. - Albert Camus

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. - Willa Cather

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. - Nadine Gordimer

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being- it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. - Graham Greene

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. - Samuel Johnson

Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it. - Walter Savage Landor

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.  - Walt Whitman

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it. - Mark Twain

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. - Sappho

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.  - Albert Einstein

All great truths begin as blasphemies. - George Bernard Shaw

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true. - Ernest Hemingway

The only person over whom you have direct and immediate control is yourself.  - Stephen R. Covey

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. - Henry David Thoreau

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. - Henry David Thoreau

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. - Henry David Thoreau

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. - William Faulkner

Chance favors the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goal posts are. - Arnold Glasow

Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. - The Bible, Proverbs 4:23 NIV

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth. - Ruth McKenney

Seeing's believing, but the feeling's the truth.  - Thomas Fuller

A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.  - Frederick the Great

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun. - John Milton

There are many truths the full meaning of which cannot be recognised until personal experience has brought it home. - John Stuart Mill

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. - William Thackeray

Truth lies within ourselves. - Robert Browning

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it. - Garrison Keillor

Facts do not cease to exist simply because they are ignored. - Author Unknown

If you want to destroy your enemy, give him an elephant. - Thai proverb

Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing. - Ram Dass

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.  - Maurice Maeterlinck

There will always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.  - Christopher Fry

The wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all blades of grass; And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own living. - Kahlil Gibran

The truth shall make you free.  - The Bible, John 8:32

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. - Miguel de Cervantes

Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river. - Cyril Connolly

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. - Blaise Pascal

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action. - Benjamin Disraeli

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.  - Kahlil Gibran

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love. - Henry David Thoreau

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life. - Henri Frederic Amiel

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.  - Father James Keller

Every truth has two sides. It is well to look at both sides before we commit ourselves to either side. - Aesop

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. - Sir Arthur Keith

We ought to do good to others as simply and naturally as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. - Marcus Aurelius

That is good which doth good. - Ralph Venning

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested. - William Dean Howells

No legacy is so rich as honesty. - Shakespeare

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. - H.L. Mencken

Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him. - Laurence Rockefeller

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. - Thomas Macaulay

Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid. - Albert Schweitzer

Let then our first act every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: I shall not fear anyone on earth. I shall fear only God. I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth I shall put up with all suffering. - Mahatma Gandhi

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. - Cicero

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. - Elie Wiesel

It is not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men. - Nietzsche

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. - Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value. - Albert Einstein

One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing. - Malcolm Forbes

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again. - William Penn

Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. - Sioux Indian prayer

Always do what you say you are going to do. It is the glue and fiber that binds successful relationships. - Jeffry A. Timmons

The roots of responsibility run out to the ends of the earth and we can no more isolate our consciences from world issues than we can fence off our oyster beds from the tides of the ocean. - Ralph W. Sockman

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. - Mark Twain

Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential. - Max DePree

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities. - Voltaire

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us. - Robert Louis Stevenson

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.  - Moliere

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Charles du Bois

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all. - Origen

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.  - Charlotte Bronte

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.  - Epictetus, Discourses

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. - Dean William R. Inge

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.  - Leo Buscaglia

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. - Ayn Rand

One's own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose one's actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor a moral validation; only reference to a demonstrable principle can validate one's choices. - Ayn Rand

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. - Martin Luther King, Jr., speech, Detroit, Michigan

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. - Rainer Maria Rilke

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. - Albert Schweitzer

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. - Carl Schurz

Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day affairs of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal. - Theodore Roosevelt

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.  - e.e. cummings

Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I expect to pass through this 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.  - Etienne de Grellet

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. - Andrew Carnegie

If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.  - John F. Kennedy

I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine. - Ludwig van Beethoven

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you. - Rabbi Ben Azai

It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic... - Message to Congress, 1868 - Andrew Johnson

Absolutely speaking, do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case. - Henry David Thoreau

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. - Henry David Thoreau

Reputation is what folks think you are. Personality is what you seem to be. Character is what you really are. - Alfred Armand Montapert

Let those who would die for the flag on the field of battle give a better proof of their patriotism and a higher glory to their country by promoting fraternity and justice. - Inaugural Address, 1889 - Benjamin Harrison

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. - Edwin Markham

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. - Maya Angelou

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions. - Francis C. Kelley

An honest man is the noblest work of God. - Alexander

Strive to be like a well-regulated watch, of pure gold, with open face, busy hands, and full of good works.  - David C. Newquist

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.  - Thomas Paine

Ay, sir; to be honest - as this world goes - is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. - William Shakespeare

If you are not honest at all, everybody hates you, and if you are absolutely honest you get martyred. - Donald Marquis

To be trusted is always greater a compliment than to be loved. - George Marshall

Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him. - Anthony Eden

Those who forgive most, shall be most forgiven. - Josiah W. Bailey

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Faith always shows itself in the whole personality. - Martin Lloyd-Jones

Our thanksgiving today should include those things which we take for granted. - Betty Fuhrman

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. - John Milton

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life is just a blank slate, what matters most is what you write on it. - Christine Frankland

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. - Muhammad Ali

No man is free who is not master of himself. - Epicetus

To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life. - William Osler

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is a learned behavior. - Katie Couric

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give! - Winston Churchill

Great necessities call out great virtues. - Abigail Adams

Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing. (from "A Return To Love")  - Marianne Williamson

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.  - Shakespeare

To err is human, to forgive divine. - Alexander Pope

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of virtues.  - Joseph Hall (1574-1656)

It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. - Addison Walker

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor. - Jim Rohn

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Ann Landers

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he had only had good intentions.  - Margaret Thatcher

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. - Dr. Paul Dudley White

To laugh often and much: To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. - William Shakespeare

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. - Goethe

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man. - George Washington

Just as life is an end in itself, so every living human being is an end in himself, not the means to the ends or the welfare of others - and, therefore, man must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. - Ayn Rand

We cannot fight against anything, unless we fight for something -- and what we must fight for is the supremacy of reason, and a view of man as a rational being. - Ayn Rand

I have four things to learn in life: to think clearly without hurry or confusion; to love everybody sincerely; to act in everything with the highest motives; to trust in God unhesitatingly. - Albert Schweitzer

It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment. - Richard J. Foster

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. - Henry Clay

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 up to what light I have.  - Abraham Lincoln

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness.  - Harry Emerson Fosdick

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully, to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. - Thomas Carlyle

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth... But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven... For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. - The Bible, Matthew 6:19-21 NIV

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves. - Mahatma Gandhi

Our first and last love is - self-love. - Bovee

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life happiness, freedom and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else. - Peyton Conway March

Our heritage and ideals, our codes and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. - Walt Disney

All you have shall some day be given; therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors. - Kahlil Gibran

The purpose of human life is to show compassion and the will to help others. - Albert Schweitzer

What matters is not that you have lied to me. What matters is that now I can no longer believe anything you say.  - Friedrich Nietzche

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? If now now, when? - Rabbi Hillel

The person I miss most is the one I could have been. - George Bernard Shaw

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap character. Sow character and you reap destiny.  - Charles Reade

An honor system, properly conceived, is not the concrete representation of the wills of a collection of saints - our honest nature writ large. If it were, it would be nothing else than a bizarre superfluity. It is instead the proclamation and legislation of the intentions of a community of persons united in mutual agreement to oppose those inclinations and strategies that they otherwise might give in to and adopt to further their individual ends. The members of groups that create honor systems say: We are, all of us, liars, cheaters, theives, - but we want to live another way. We think we can, with others 'help.' (from Rethinking Honor. J. Thought. 17 (1982):3-6) - D. Heim

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pastures. They give thay they may live, for to withhold is to perish. Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights, is worthy of all else from you.  - Kahlil Gibran

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. {Twenty Years at Hull House, 1910} - Jane Addams

The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner, destroyeth much good. - Ecclesiastes 9:17,18

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. - Ecclesiastes 10:12

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. - English Proverb

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. - William Penn

He that would have fruit must climb the tree. - Thomas Fuller

No man is greater than his respect for sleep. - Ogden Nash

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese proverb

Brevity is the soul of wit. - Shakespeare

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. - Shakespeare

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. - Shakespeare

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - Shakespeare

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. - Shakespeare

The better part of valor is discretion. - Shakespeare

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. - Doug Larson

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. - Charles Schulz

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. - Frank Lloyd Wright

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. - Napoleon Bonaparte

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. - George Santayana

Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward be at one. - Socrates

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. - Cicero

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. - Nietzsche

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. - John Quincy Adams

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world. - Helen Keller

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. - Thomas Huxley

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. - Lord Chesterfield

Never tell all that you know, or do all that you can, or believe all that you hear. - Portuguese proverb

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. - Benjamin Franklin

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion. - Dale Carnegie

Be kind. Remember, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Thompson

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. - William Dean Howells

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. - Mark Twain

I believe every person has a heart, and if you can reach it, you can make a difference. - Uli Derickson

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self. - Confucius

Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults. - Benjamin Franklin

The best cure for anger is delay. - Seneca

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals, courtesy, to inferiors, nobleness. - Benjamin Franklin

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. - Homer

There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded. - Mark Van Doren

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts. - Madame de Stael

We praise a man who is angry on the right grounds, against the right persons, in the right manner, at the right moment, and for the right length of time. - Aristotle

Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. - Sioux Indian prayer

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. - Booker T. Washington

The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of the nonessentials. - Lin Yutang

Let the past drift away with the water. - Japanese saying

We should take from the past its fires and not its ashes. - Jean Juares

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish on from the other. - Reinhold Niebuhr

A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin. - Ayn Rand

For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age. - Danny McGoorty

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without his thumb on the scale. - Byron Langfeld

What's gone and what's past help should be past grief. - William Shakespeare

When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain

Never let yesterday use up too much of today. - Will Rogers

It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them. - Epictetus

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. - Albert Schweitzer

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. - Mahatma Gandhi

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. - John F. Kennedy

A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner. - Benjamin Whichcote

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln

Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back. - Geoffrey Bocca

Hear the other side. - St. Augustine

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from. - William Faulkner

Never answer a letter while you are angry. - Chinese proverb

Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau

A short saying often contains much wisdom. - Sophocles

One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.  - Chinese proverb

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.  - Shakespeare

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.  - Leo Tolstoy

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.  - Virgil

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.  - Henry David Thoreau

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.  - Sophocles

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.  - Vernon Cooper

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. - Henry David Thoreau

If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst. - Thomas Hardy

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. - Swedish Proverb

Good things come to those who wait But not for those who wait too late.  - Forest Sprague

Rain does not fall on one roof alone. - Cameroonian Proverb

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze. - Horace

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F. Kennedy

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. - Charles Caleb Colton

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. - Goethe

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. - Hada Bejar

Keep conscience clear, then never fear. - Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. - Martin Van Buren

Never forget what is worth remembering or remember what is best forgotten...  - Anonymous

We too often love things and use people when we should be using things and loving people...  - Reuel L. Howe

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.  - Thomas H. Huxley

Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.  - Bernard Baruch

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.  - Euripides

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.  - Warren Buffett

You cannot expect to find strong wood from the tree that grows quickly. - Langenhoven

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. - Henry David Thoreau

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced. - Henry David Thoreau

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. - Horace

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone, and more fragile than a rose. - Turkish proverb

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. - Henry Ward Beecher

The best parachute folders are those who jump themselves.  - Anonymous

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.  - Theodore Roosevelt

If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.  - Mark Twain

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost. The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.  - J.R.R. Tolkien

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom. - Euripides

Don't get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily. - Charles R. Swindoll

Not hammer strokes, but dance of the water sings the peebles into perfection. - Rabindranath Tagore

When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze. - Thomas Carlyle

The shortest and best way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.  - Socrates

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.  - Horace

The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.  - Montaigne

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!  - Sir Walter Scott

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. - William Shakespeare

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. - Benjamin Franklin

Plough deep while sluggards sleep. - Benjamin Franklin

Little strokes fell great oaks. - Benjamin Franklin

A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost. - Benjamin Franklin

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. - Benjamin Franklin

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone. - Benjamin Franklin

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. - Benjamin Franklin

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. - Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. - Benjamin Franklin

A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man then saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted.  - Zen Poem

In an eagle there is all the wisdom of the world.  - Lame Deer, Minnicoujou

Never let your feet run faster than your shoes. - Scottish proverb

The Golden Rule is of no use to you whatever unless you realize it is your move. - Frank Crane

It is the beautiful bird that gets caged. - Chinese proverb

In the shelter of each other, the people live.  - Gaelic Proverb

Never drop your gun to hug a bear. - H.E. Palmer

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.  - David Starr Jordan

The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. - Antoine Bret

Real wisdom comes from self-realisation. - Chew Nai Chee

Doubt your doubts.  - Joe Batten

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.  - African Proverb

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.  - Otto Von Bismarck

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.  - Saint Jerome

Consider the past and you shall know the future. - Chinese Proverb

It is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself; it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest. - William Shakespeare

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.  - Frances Bacon

The fool wonders, the wise man asks. (1804-1881, British Prime Minister) - Benjamin Disraeli

You must act as if it is impossible to fail. - Ashanti Proverb

Those who remove mountains begin by carrying away small stones. - Chinese proverb

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong. - Zen proverb

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.  - Italian Proverb

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. - Irish Proverb

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred. - from 'Time' - Pico Iyer

There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord. (quotation in Tom Clancy's 'Rainbow Six') - Homer

Deception may eliminate. - Kelly J. Cannon (July 2003)

What naggers never understand is finely expressed in an old Yiddish proverb: "Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong." - Sydney J. Harris

He who walks the path in search of enlightenment shall find it. He who walks the path in search of doubt will find it. Be sure you know what you are looking for before you try and find it. - Brandon Lum

There is something to be learned from a rain storm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet, and run quickly along the road. By doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. If one is resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, but will still receive the same soaking. This understanding extends to all. - Yamamoto Tsunetomo

A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. - Chinese proverb

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. - English proverb

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. - Auguste Rodin

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. - Abraham Lincoln

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words. - Sophocles

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes. - Dr. James Dobson

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - John Keats

Without haste, but without rest. - Goethe

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. - Edward R. Murrow

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. - Paul Boese

If you hate a person, you hate something in something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. - Hermann Hesse, Demian

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life. - Ayn Rand

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: He that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. - Charles Caleb Colton

Wisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. - William Wordsworth

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao Tzu

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others.  - Jonathon Swift

Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully.  - Sarah Ban Breathnach

It is no use waiting for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.  - Belgian Proverb

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. - James Bryant Conant

The ear test words as the tongue tastes food. - The Bible, Job 34:3 NIV

Take rest. A field that has rested gives a beautiful crop. - Ovid

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their rightful names. - Chinese Proverb

God helps them that help themselves. {Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757} - Benjamin Franklin

Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. - Benjamin Franklin

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.  - Leonardo da Vinci

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime. - Ancient Proverb

The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes... {1871-1922 - French Novelist}  - Marcel Proust

Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.  - Sidney Lovett

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside. - Alexander Pope

You got to go there to know there. - Zora Neale Hurston

Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. - Swedish Proverb

This is a good time to be a woman because your country, now more than at any time in its history, is utilizing your abilities and intelligence. - Ladybird Johnson

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. - Gloria Stein

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women. - H.L. Mencken

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. - H.L. Mencken

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight. - H.L. Mencken

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. - Aristotle Onassis

I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. - Katherine Cebrian

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. - William Congreve

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet . . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.  - Virginia Woolf

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. - Susan B. Anthony

We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle. - Erma Bombeck

No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems. - Anna Garlin Spencer, Woman's Share in Social Cultu

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.  - Anna Garlin Spencer, Woman's Share in Social Cultu

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. - Faith Whittlesey

If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names. - Elaine Gill

When women go wrong, men go right after them. - Mae West

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. - Enid Bagnold

Feel the fear and do it anyway. - Susan Jeffers

I never go to the podium alone. I always take a variety of people with me. One time it might be Golda Meir or Dorothy Parker. It is often Eleanor Roosevelt and sometimes it is my grandmother. - from the book, 'The Last Word' - Carol Warner

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings -- woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.  - Charles Baudelaire

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. - Anita Brookner

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink. - Angela Carter

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.  - Cher

Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down. - Don Delillo

Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely. - Christian Dior

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so. - Andrea Dworkin

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? - Dame Edith Evans

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. - Betty Friedan

The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on! - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more. - Germaine Greer

If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character. - Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

The real thinking of woman is pre-eminently practical and applied. It is something we describe as sound common sense, and is usually directed to what is close at hand and personal. In general, it can be said that feminine mentality manifests an undeveloped, childlike, or primitive character; instead of the thirst for knowledge, curiosity; instead of judgment, prejudice; instead of thinking, imagination or dreaming; instead of will, wishing. Where a man takes up objective problems, a woman contents herself with solving riddles; where he battles for knowledge and understanding, she contents herself with faith or superstition, or else she makes assumptions. - Emma Jung

The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation -- none of them -- not in the long run. In the long run she only says "Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly dissatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me." And if there is some dissatisfaction, it is physical, at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul. - D. H. Lawrence

Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian. - Fran Lebowitz

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young. - Kate Millet

Woman -- for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind." - Luigi Pirandello

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience. - Bertrand Russell

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women. - Alexis De Tocqueville

We have now traced the history of women from Paradise to the nineteenth century and have heard nothing through the long roll of the ages but the clank of their fetters. - Lady Jane Wilde

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored. - Oscar Wilde

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world, and those who want power in bed. - Jackie Onassis

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. - Marie Curie

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women. - Nancy Astor

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species. - George Bernard Shaw

Dancing is wonderful training for girls; it's the first place you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. - Christopher Morley

But if God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain? - Clare Boothe Luce

Being a woman is a difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealing with men. - Joseph Conrad

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs. - Marlene Dietrich

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him. - Cher

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not. - H.L. Mencken

There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes. - Jan Ashford

Failure is impossible. - Susan B. Anthony

It doesn't matter who you are, or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. ALWAYS. - Oprah Winfrey

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.  - Mary Kay Ash

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it. - Caroline Bird

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt. - George Eliot

They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given... without a woman in it. - Kate Field

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. - Ursula K. Le Guin

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. - Virginia Woolf

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.  - Eleanor Roosevelt

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. - Konrad Adenauer

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. - Henry Van Dyke

I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece, but of the world. - Socrates

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. - Ivy Baker Priest

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi

If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. - Pope John Paul II

Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different. - David Grayson

There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded. - Mark Van Doren

The chessboard is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call laws of nature. - Thomas Huxley

If a man be gracious, and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. - Sir Francis Bacon

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. - Abba Eban

The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. - Robert Frost

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. - Ivy Baker Priest

In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.  - Alvin Toffler

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. - Herbert Butterfield

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. - Rene Dubos, Celebrations of Life, 1981

The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people's differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience. - Jerome Nathanson

Education is the transmission of civilization. - Ariel and Will Durant

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.  - Epictetus, Discourses

The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. - Mahatma Gandhi

The king is the man who can. - Thomas Carlyle

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. - John F. Kennedy

When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents the danger and the other represents opportunity. - John F. Kennedy

A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow. - John F. Kennedy

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. - Ayn Rand

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. - Warren Bennis

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. - Thomas De Quincey

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. - Helen Keller

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized. - Henry David Thoreau

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another. - Henry David Thoreau

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God. - Henry David Thoreau

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. - T.S. Eliot

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.  - Mary Ellen Kelly

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it... always. - Mahatma Gandhi

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.  - Phillips Brooks

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. - Confucius

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

If we do not learn to live together as friends, we will die apart as fools. - Martin Luther King

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris when you are young, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. - Ernest Hemingway

When we thinka about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line... and that its direction changes constantly. - Wittgenstein

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling

This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. - Guy Davenport

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. - Paul Dirac

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. - Groucho Marx

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. - Oliver Herford

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. - - Flannery O'Connor

Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when the words won't come at all, and the other is logorrhea, when the words come so fast that they can hardly get to the wastebasket in time. - Cecelia Bartholomew

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. - Moses Hadas

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing; I owe them to my relations with other people. - Robert Graves

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties. - Agatha Christie

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. - Ernest Hemingway

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. - Gore Vidal

Why don't you write books people can read? - Nora Joyce to her husband James

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. - T. S. Eliot

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. - Tom Clancy

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. - Flannery O'Connor

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. - Paul Valery

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. - Willa Cather

Poetry: the best words in the best order. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all.  - Lavina Goodell, junior editor, Harper's Bazaar, 18

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.  - Stephen King

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself. - Mark Twain

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.  - Alice Walker

A man's best friends are his ten fingers. - Robert Collyer

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.  - E. M. Forster

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.  - Henry Ward Beecher

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.  - Samuel Butler

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.  - Ernest Hemingway

What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while... What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.  - J. D. Salinger

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.  - Henry David Thoreau

A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.  - Emily Dickinson

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.  - Franklin, Benjamin

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. - Allan Bloom

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.  - Gaston Bachelard

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.  - John Berger

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. - Andre Gide

Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it, if he wants a safe seat in the audience - let him read someone else.  - D. H. Lawrence

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.  - Harper Lee

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. - Montesquieu

When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. - John F. Kennedy

The best-laid schemes o mice and men Gang aft agley... - Robert Burns, "To a Mouse"

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Slang is language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands -- and goes to work. - Carl Sandburg

Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.  - Ambrose Bierce

Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.  - Ayn Rand

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity. - Sir William Osler

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. - Paul Tillich

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. - Ernest Hemingway

There is no friend as loyal as a book. - Ernest Hemingway

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. - Ernest Hemingway

Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved. - Ernest Hemingway

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. - Ernest Hemingway

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. - Ernest Hemingway

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. - Ernest Hemingway

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near. - Saul Bellow

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. - Duke of Buckingham

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. - Henry James

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. - Henry Miller

Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors. - Pablo Picasso

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith. - Salman Rushdie

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. - Henry David Thoreau

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. - Henry David Thoreau

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution --such call I good books. - Henry David Thoreau

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. - W. H. Auden

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. - Walter Bagehot

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. - James Baldwin

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