Society and the World

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

It is good enough to talk of God while we are sitting here after a nice breakfast and looking forward to a nicer luncheon, but how am I to talk of God to the millions who have to go without two meals a day? To them God can only appear as bread and butter.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Man creates culture and through culture creates himself.

When you take stuff from one writer, it’s plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers it’s research.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.