Quotes to inspire and reflect

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Don't forget to love yourself.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he can do and becoming.

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

Ideas shape the course of history.

The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Maybe you're right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. Look, one day I had gone to a little village.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin impatience.

Two things only the people desire bread and circuses.

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Civilization is a transient sickness.

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.

What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem Bits and pieces trivialities.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee.

What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself?

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

I love to go to Washington -- if only to be near my money.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Be entirely tolerant or not at all follow the good path or the evil one.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance.

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.