The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
Elbert HubbardAssassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin DisraeliTreachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.
Jim MattisI think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.
Taylor SwiftWe have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. KennedyHe who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.
Galileo GalileiScience investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Fyodor DostoevskyI believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Richard P. FeynmanI still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.
Christopher HitchensLife’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.
Edmund HillaryThe bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander PopeAs a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin DisraeliKnowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
Terry PratchettWhen we build, let us think that we build for ever.
John RuskinNothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
David HareThere is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
James BaldwinThere is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles DickensAn inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. ChestertonTo enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
BuddhaBeauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
John RuskinMen often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Alexander HamiltonEvery age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul SartreAll the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Bob DylanA poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert FrostAn ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mahatma GandhiLife is a song to me.
Dolly PartonThe object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Gilbert K. ChestertonDo creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.
David ByrneModeration is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar WildeA squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
Mark ZuckerbergThere is no unique picture of reality.
Stephen HawkingIf only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
Dale CarnegieThe world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
Bill GatesIf there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
Nelson MandelaUltimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.
Jim MattisIf you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.
Nipsey HussleMan is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.
DiogenesThe man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
George Bernard ShawTo tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund BurkeForty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Hosea BallouLeave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Theodore RooseveltSilence is the mother of truth.
Benjamin DisraeliMen who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
Golda MeirThose parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.
Thomas SowellYou learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
Bob DylanThere are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
Friedrich NietzscheAge is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Mark TwainIf you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.
Clint EastwoodWords may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin FranklinNature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles DickensWhen I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFreedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald ReaganIf a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. LewisEurope became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
Desmond TutuNothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
Virginia WoolfWhenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar WildeMan the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinColonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
Benjamin Disraeli