Quotes to inspire and reflect

The opinion of the strongest is always the best.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

Nothing more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude-it's a slam at the people they've met before.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

If people liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So, I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

I believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail.

Love won't be tampered with; love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars you have a right to be here.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

In love, there are no vacations No such thing. Love must be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. Maria Montessori Democritus says, but we know nothing for truth lies deep down.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave.

Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.