Quotes to inspire and reflect

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone.

If rough be love with you, be rough with love.

Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. Ernesto "Che

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. W. S.

I must be an optimist, because a pessimist is never disappointed.

There will always be one who loves, and one who lets himself be loved. W.

To be feared is much safer then to be loved.

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.

There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

Guts is grace under pressure.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God

People only see what they are prepared to see.

My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of conscious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. W.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in.

Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sandiest me to God.

my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Chastity is the greatest form of perversion.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music. J. S.

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

God is not merely interested in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

I aught join a club and beat you over the head with it.

Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.

The "highest" states of mind held up before mankind by Christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.

To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? W. H.

When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.

The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude.

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?