Quotes of the Day

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

[ Neil Armstrong ]

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

[ Otto von Bismarck ]

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

[ The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America ]

The splendor of life forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though; not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

[ Franz Kafka ]

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

[ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ]

The sons of torture victims make good terrorists.

[ André Malraux ]

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

[ Alan Turing ]

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient... Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach— waiting for a gift from the sea.

[ Anne Morrow Lindbergh ]

Life has no meaning a priori... It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

[ Jean-Paul Sartre ]

True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

[ Blaise Pascal ]

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

[ Paul McCartney ]

I observed, 'Love is the fulfilling of the law, the end of the commandment.' It is not only 'the first and great' command, but all the commandments in one. 'Whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise,' they are all comprised in this one word, love.

[ John Wesley ]

I cannot think we are useless or Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.

[ Geronimo ]

At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality... We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.

[ Che Guevara ]

Talent perceives differences, Genius unity.

[ William Butler Yeats ]

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that's why I'm grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop and to express all that's inside me!

[ Anne Frank ]

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

[ William Styron ]

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony and even justice.

[ Saul Bellow ]

There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but—the content of the role itself—I find there are many roles.

[ Anne Bancroft ]

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool. ~ Aleksandr Pushkin.

[ Aleksandr Pushkin ]

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

[ John Maynard Keynes ]

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt. The "taken for granted" is the test of sanity... In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.

[ Lawrence Lessig ]

The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.

[ Mikhail Bakunin ]

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

[ Julia Ward Howe ]

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

[ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams— day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing— are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.

[ L. Frank Baum ]

When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is trying to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

[ J. Krishnamurti ]

Life is a long lesson in humility.

[ J. M. Barrie ]

Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense, which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.

[ David Hume ]

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

[ Rabindranath Tagore ]

Democracy is the destiny of humanity; freedom its indestructible arm.

[ Benito Juárez ]

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

[ Elbert Hubbard ]

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

[ Kurt Vonnegut ]

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

[ Henry James ]

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

[ Zhuang Zi ]

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

[ C.S. Lewis ]

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

[ Willa Cather ]

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been. ~

[ William Hazlitt ]

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

[ Peter Ustinov ]

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

[ Albert Einstein ]

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'

[ Winston Churchill ]

One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the case of the sailor, this is called a tide; in the case of the guilty, it is called remorse.

[ Victor Hugo ]

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

[ William Shakespeare ]

All animals are equal— but some animals are more equal than others.

[ George Orwell ]

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. ~

[ Oscar Wilde ]

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.

[ Bertrand Russell ]

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

[ Albert Einstein ]

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

[ Harry S. Truman ]

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

[ Martin Luther King ]

I remain faithful to my beliefs and remain inflexibly anti-colonialist.

[ Aimé Césaire ]