Quotes to inspire and reflect

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

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

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

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

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

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

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

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.

Hell has no benefits, only torture.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds. Joanne K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Dumbledore 11429 There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm.

Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.