Society and the World

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

In the final analysis there is no solution to man’s progress but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decisions, the day’s generous utterances and the day’s good deed.

In the final analysis there is no solution to man’s progress but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decisions, the day’s generous utterances and the day’s good deed.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Justice is being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Justice while she winks at crimes, stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Justice while she winks at crimes, stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

He that first cries out "Stop thief!", is often he that has stolen the treasure.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

Let us become the change we seek in this world.

Have confidence that you can draw the best, not the worst, to yourself.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.