Quotes to inspire and reflect

The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.

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.

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

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.

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

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.

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

Civilization is a transient sickness.

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

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

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

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

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

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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

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

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

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

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.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

It matters if you just don't give up.

The trees reflected in the river -- they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

God not only plays dice; he throws them in the corner where you can't see them.

My goal is simple. It is the complete understanding of the Universe.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.