Quotes I Wish I Could Remember At The Time They Would Be Most Appropriate
“Why should I give them my mind as well?” -Dalai Lama, when asked if he wasn't angry at the Chinese for taking over his country. (1935- )
“Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.” -Henri Frederic Amiel philosopher and writer (1821-1881)
“Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.” -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899
“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
“The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.” -Gary Zukav, author (1942- )
“No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.” -Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978)
“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.” -Emily Kimbrough, author and broadcaster (1899-1989)
“As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more.” -Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910)
“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.” -William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)
“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
Booker Taliaferro Washington
“When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find out they are not it.”
Bernard Bailey, 1816-1904
“There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” -Michelangelo Buonarroti
"There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts."
--Voltaire
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition by mediocre minds."
--Albert Einstein
"Even a thought, even a possibility, can shatter us and transform us."
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A sneer was smeared on his face like lipstick left there by another man's woman."
--unknown dime store crime novel
"Don't bite my finger--look where I am pointing"
--Neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch
"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift"
--Pierre Corneille
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."
--Anonymous
"A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
--George Bernard Shaw about dancing.
"The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
--Albert Schweitzer
