Quotes

E. B. White

Dr. Seuss

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.

Lily Tomlin

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

Lou Holtz

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Hunter S. Thompson

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Confucius

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Socrates

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Bertrand Russell

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Aristotle

Education is the best provision for old age.

Bertrand Russell

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Bertrand Russell

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Karl Marx

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Bertrand Russell

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

Karl Marx

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Bertrand Russell

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Confucius

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Bertrand Russell

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.