Quotes to inspire and reflect

There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth.

Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling.

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of dist.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

They go forth with well-developed bodies, developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart-not a cold one.

The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.

Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them.

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Oh, if only I did nothing simply because of laziness.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Man, is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

 

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate. J. R. R.

If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.

 

There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.

 

The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance. C. S.

 

No other road, no other way, no day but today.

 

Valour needs first strength, then a weapon. J. R. R.