Quotes to inspire and reflect

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

Though inclination be as sharp as will My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit for if they could, Cupid himself would blush to see me thus transformed to a boy.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton #6953 It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before... it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before.

God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like the shadow, proves the substance true.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution G. K.

When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...

Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future. Thomas H.

Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.

One should count each day a separate life.

I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by you means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise.

Sin is the only real color element left in modern life.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, then to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Being natural is simply a pose.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today. Dr.

It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.