Quotes to inspire and reflect

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

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.

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge. George F.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . . Peter F.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

It is the theory that decides what we can observe.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country.