Society and the World

Facts are the enemy of truth.

I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.

Knowledge is power.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.

Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Do or do not. There is no try.

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you’re right!

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.

Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You must do that which you think you cannot do.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.