Quotes to inspire and reflect

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Education is life itself.

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.

in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.

In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not.

Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

A good garden may have some weeds.

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

For what are possessions but things we guard for fear we might need them tomorrow?

He who limps still walks.

We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson; they are voiceless? We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action? No action.

Above all, try something.

You keep changing? the rules and I can’t play the game. I can’t take it much longer. I think I might go insane.

Look who’s standing if you please, though you tried to bring me to my knees.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.