Favorite
Sayings and Quotations
Every
successful revolt is termed a revolution, and every
unsuccessful one a rebellion.
- Joseph Priestly
Maturity
of mind is capacity to endure uncertainty.
- Confucius
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Man's
most judicious trait, is a good sense of what not to
believe.
- Euripides
May
God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
- George S. Patton
There
are three classes of people: those who see, those who
see when they are shown, those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
In
the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers
that blossom at their feet.
- Albert Schweitzer
Absence
of proof is not proof of absence.
- William Cowper
My
logic is undeniable.
V.I.K.I,
from the movie I, Robot
The
crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias
to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The
chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena
of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call
the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is
hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair,
and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he
never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance
for ignorance.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
We
ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications,
but by the use they make of them.
- Charron
Toleration
in religion is absolutely the best fruit of all the
struggles, labors and sorrows of the civilized nations
during the last four centuries.
- Charles
William Eliot
Let
every one ascertain his special business and calling,
and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.
- Benjamin Franklin
A
democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one
percent of the people may take away the rights of the
other forty-nine.
- Thomas Jefferson
The
dogmatist is sure of everything, and the skeptic believes
nothing.
- Dr. I. Watts
Thus
to be independent of public opinion is the first formal
condition of achieving anything great....
G. W. F. Hegel
When
people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves
that they are bored.
Eric Hoffer
Maybe
this world is another planet's hell.
- Aldous Huxley
My
country is the world and my religion is to do good.
- Thomas Paine
To
a few rashness brings luck, to most misfortune.
- Phaedrus
The
bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world.
- Japanese Proverb
Discontent
is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress,
in individuals and nations.
- Berthold Auerbach
Judge
a man by his questions rather than his answers.
- Voltaire
Remember
no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will
not be overjoyed in good fortune or too sorrowful in
your misfortune.
- Socrates
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What
a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty
is goodness.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Let
us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions,
emotions, may be made popular, but reason remains the
property of the few.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Life
is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you
represents determinism; the way you play it is free
will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Nothing
under the sun is ever accidental.
- Gotthold Lessing
The
man who questions opinion is wise; the man who quarrels
with facts is a fool.
- Frank A. Garbutt
Better
face a danger once than always be in fear.
-
Proverb
The
wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
- William Ralph Inge
Chance is a word devoid of sense, nothing can exist
without a cause.
- Voltaire
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example
of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt.
- Antoinette Deshoulieres
Men
are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted
truth.
- Jeremy Taylor
Only intuition can save you from the most dangerous
individual of all, the articulate incompetent.
- Robert Bernstein
What the fool cannot learn, he laughs at, thinking that
by his laughter he shows superiority instead of a latent
idiocy.
- Marie Corelli
