Quotes to inspire and reflect

All would live long, but none would be old.

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

A pretty woman is a welcome guest.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.

A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

We must become the change we want to see.

If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. Ernesto "Che

Wisdom comes with winters.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead? A dead parent, for example? Can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. Casey Stengal 11522 The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montana, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.

We are always in our own company.

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!

A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.