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WORDS OF SUCCESS
Peter F. Drucker
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done

at all.

Abraham Lincoln:
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than

any other one thing.

Albert Einstein:
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Schweitzer:
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you

love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Alex Noble:
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of

ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action,

if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Anna Pavlova:
To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success?

What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in

the satisfaction of accomplishment.

Barbara Jordan:
All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right

thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you've got good enough, solid

judgment and common sense, that you're going to be able to do whatever you want

to do with your life.

Benjamin Disraeli:
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Franklin:
There are no gains without pains.

Bernadette Devlin:
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

Bessie Stanley:
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who

has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who

has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better

than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued

soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express

it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he

had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.
published 11/30/1905 in the Lincoln (Kansas) Sentinel - an adaptation of this

is often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, though nothing like it has been

found in his writings.

Bessie Stanley (adapted; erroneously attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson):
Success
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false

friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or

a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
Often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, it is an adaptation of a poem

published in 1905 by Bessie Stanley. No version of it has been found in

Emerson's writings. For more information see

http://www.transcendentalists.com/success.htm

Bruce Feirstein: The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by

success.

Coco Chanel:
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be

someone.

Corita Kent:
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is

vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live

each, is to succeed.

Corita Kent:
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

David Brinkley:
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that

others throw at him or her.

Demosthenes:
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Elaine Maxwell:
My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's

doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can

be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the

key to my destiny.

Elbert Hubbard:
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized,

vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness, and

evey man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.
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Emily Dickinson:
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Frank Lloyd Wright:
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion

to the things you want to see happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright:
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing

makes it happen.

Franklin D. Roosevelt:
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly

and try another. But above all, try something.

G. K. Chesterton:
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and

then going away and doing the exact opposite.

George Washington Carver:
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the

weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

Havelock Ellis:
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

Helen Keller:
I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to

accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved

along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate

of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Henry David Thoreau:
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I

thought, and attended to my answer.

Henry David Thoreau:
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his

dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a

success unexpected in common hours.

Henry Ford:
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. also

attributed to Mary Kay Ash

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight,

/ But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.

Herbert B. Swope:
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for

failure: which is: Try to please everybody.

J.C. Penney:
Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make

history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

James A. Froude:
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself

one.

John C. Maxwell:
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.

Jonathan Kozol:
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher

Lily Tomlin:
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Louis L'Amour:
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

Margaret Mead:
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an

individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach:
Conquer, but don't triumph.

Maya Lin:
To fly, we have to have resistance.

Michael Korda:
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Oliver Wendell Holmes:
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We

must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must

and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Pablo Picasso:
My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you

become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and

wound up as Picasso.

Pearl S. Buck:
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart

withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears

only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck:
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to

do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl S. Buck:
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the

impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule,

equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole

distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will

always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know

it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in

solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of

the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Richard Bach:
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Robert F. Kennedy:
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Samuel Smiles:
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener

succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have

taught them so well as failure has done.

Samuel Smiles :
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover

what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a

mistake never made a discovery.

Theodore Roosevelt:
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man

stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs

to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat

and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who

knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a

worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at

least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those

cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910

Thomas Alva Edison:
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up.

Thomas Wolfe:
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in

money, compliments, or publicity.

Ursula K. Le Guin:
Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep

dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of

ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.

Vaclav Havel:
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to

succeed.

Vanessa Redgrave:
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

Vince Lombardi:
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Vince Lombardi:
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the

price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're

willing to pay the price.

William Lloyd Garrison:
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

William Lyon Phelps:
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no

possible value to him.

William M. Winans:
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

William Menninger:
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal

integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

William Saroyan:
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get

very little wisdom from success, you know.

Winston Churchill:
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.



Alvin Toffler:
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.



Ambrose Bierce:
Heaven, n.: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.

The Devil's Dictionary



Anne Morrow Lindbergh:
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.



Clarence Darrow:
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?



Edward R. Murrow:
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.



Edward R. Murrow:
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.



Edwin H. Friedman:
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.



Ernest Hemingway:
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.



Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.



George Bernard Shaw:
The problem with communication , is the illusion that it has been accomplished.



George Eliot:
[I]t is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.



Hubert H. Humphrey:
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.



John Dewey:
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication, Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.



Jonathan Swift:
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.



Joseph Priestley:
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.



Kin Hubbard:
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.



Marcel Proust:
We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.



Margaret Chase Smith:
One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.



Marie Ebner von Eschenbach:
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.



Michel de Montaigne:
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.



Pearl S. Buck:
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.



Rachel Naomi Remen:
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.



Robert Greeleaf:
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.



Robert Greenleaf:
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.



Rollo May:
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.



Rudyard Kipling:
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.



Sharon Schuster:
When we have the courage to speak out – to break our silence – we inspire the rest of the "moderates" in our communities to speak up and voice their views.



Virginia Satir:
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.



Willa Cather:
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.



Woodrow Wilson:
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.

Agnes Repplier:
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.



Alex Carey:
, the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

Australian social scientist, quoted by Noam Chomsky in World Orders Old and New



Alexis de Tocqueville:
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.



Aristotle:
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.



Barbara Ehrenreich:
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -- the truly democratic thing about it -- is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.



C. S. Lewis:
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.



Demosthenes:
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.



Dorothy Thompson:
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.



Dorothy Thompson:
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.



Dorothy Thompson:
Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.



E. B. White:
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.



Edward Dowling:
The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it. [1941]



Eleanor Holmes Norton:
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.



Eugene McCarthy:
As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.



Eugene V. Debs:
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.



Frank Owen:
In 1929 the wise, far-seeing electors of my native Hereford sent me to Westminster and, two years later, the lousy bastards kicked me out.



George Bernard Shaw:
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.



George Orwell:
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.



George Washington:
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.



H. L. Mencken:
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.



H. L. Mencken:
As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright slowpoke.

The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920



H. L. Mencken:
A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.



Hermann Goering:
Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. quote verified at snopes.com



Howard Winters:
Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it.



Hubert H. Humphrey:
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.



Irving Kristol:
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.



J. William Fulbright:
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.



Jane Auer:
Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.



Jerome Nathanson:
The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people's differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience.



Jesse Jackson:
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.



John Dewey:
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education , (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.



John F. Kennedy:
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.



John Gardner:
The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.



John Simon:
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.



Laurence J. Peter:
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.



Mark Twain:
We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.



Meg Greenfield:
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.



Mohandas K. Gandhi:
To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.



Mohandas K. Gandhi:
The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within.



Mohandas K. Gandhi:
In true democracy every man and women is taught to think for himself or herself.



Mohandas K. Gandhi:
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.



Mohandas K. Gandhi:
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.



Molly Ivins:
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.



Noam Chomsky:
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.



Noam Chomsky:
There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education, organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators or that lays the basis for institutional change -- and the kind of commitment that will persist despite the temptations of disillusionment, despite many failures and only limited successes, inspired by the hope of a brighter future."



Noam Chomsky:
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.



Paulo Freire:
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.



Plato:
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.



Robert Coles:
Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?



Robert M. Hutchins:
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.



Stuart Chase:
Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.



Theodore Parker:
Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am."



Thomas Jefferson:
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.



Thomas Jefferson:
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.



Thomas Jefferson:
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.



Thomas Jefferson:
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.



Unknown:
[C]reative ability and personal responsibility are strongest when the mind is free from supernatural belief and operates in an atmosphere of freedom and democracy.



Vince Lombardi:
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.



Voltaire:
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.



Walt Whitman:
Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between [people], and their beliefs -- in religion, literature, colleges and schools -- democracy in all public and private life,



Walt Whitman:

The purpose of democracy -- supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance -- is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures,
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Wendell Phillips:
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.



William J. Bennett:
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

Anatole France
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Eric Hoffer:
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Henry David Thoreau:
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Kahlil Gibran:
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Martin Luther King, jr.:
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

Miguel de Cervantes:
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Oliver Wendell Holmes:
The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
Studs Terkel:
Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.
A. E. Houseman:
A tail behind, a trunk in front,
Complete the usual elephant.
The tail in front, the trunk behind,
Is what you very seldom find.

If you for specimens should hunt
With trunks behind and tails in front,
That hunt would occupy you long
The force of habit is so strong.

Annie Dillard:
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Aristotle:
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Charles Kettering:
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.

Mark Twain:
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.

Spanish proverb:
Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

Thomas Jefferson:
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual.

Thornton Wilder:
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

of a truth,warri no dey carry last.can u imagine a situation where 2 nigeria sneeked in to us thru the engine room of the ship that are takin people to us,but unfortunately they got to know that sneek into the country,so they were chasing them and fately they ran into a social gathering and since every where was jampacked they couldn't trace them,wat was their next idea?so the us police quickly switched off the light and evrybody was complaining,and in 3mins time it was switched on and suddenly the two warri guys shouted"nepa don bring light" and they were able to locate them and that was how they were deported!dats y i say that anywhere tehy they dont carry last!so abeg help hail warri gur,three gun shot 2 una gboza!,gboza!,gboza!

plz the authority in charge of music directing should step into this case and bring a final stop to all this mess we call music!cos it has brought our image of music industry to the mud and even our aRTISTE ALSO,WHO ARE OVERSEES by wat ukwa has done plz.those that aren't trained to be artiste should not be allow to do present rubbish to the teeming population.IF U ARE AN ACTOR/ACTRESS,BE A ACTOR/ACTRESS STILL!!!IF U ARE AN ARTITSE,BE AN ARTISTE!!! OKAY.DONT JEOPARDISE THE FUTURE OF OTHERS JUST BECOS OF U TRYing TO BE"JACK OF ALL TRADE,MASTER OF ONLY ONE(ACTOR)".PLZZZZ

plz nigerians try as much as possible to be self reliant.plz let go this"i go chop your dollars" syndrome out of ur memory okay.dont eye want does not belong to u.be diligent and hardworking.good luck

THIS SYNDROME HAS BEEN IN THE MIND OF NIGERIANS EVER SINCE WHEN TEY ARE GIVEN BIRTH TO.THE FIRST U HEAR AN AVERAGE NIGERIAN WANTS TO DO IS "YAHOO YAHOO".!INSTEAD OF HIM TO FIND MORE LEGAL BUSINESS HE EYEING DOLLARS THAT HE WANTS TO GET FRAUDULENTLY!I DONT BLAME!IT IS AS A RESULT OF BAD GOVERNANCE!SO GOVERNMENT CHANGE FOR THE BETTER THIS TIME AROUND!

CAN U IMAGINE WHAT UKWA(NKEM OWOH) HAS DONE TO 2OO AFRICANS WHO ARE STRUGGLING TO MAKE ENDS MEET IN HOLLAND WITH HIS SO CALLED"I GO CHOP YOUR DOLLARS" SONG?THEY HAVE ALL BEEN DEPORTED TO NIGERIA INCLUDING HIMSELF.IT HAPPENED IN A SOCIAL GATHERING IN HOLLAND WHERE UKWA WAS ENTERTAINING PEOPLE WITH HIS MUSIC AND THIS SONG WAS PLAYED AND IT SOUNDS DISGUISTING TO THE EARS OF NETHERLANDS AND THEY HAVE TO ROUND THEM UP INCLUDING UKWA.AND THAT WAS HOW THEY WERE DEPORTED TO NIGERIA.WAT A DISGRACE!

in all warri guys do, dey dont carry last,at home and anywhere they find themselves.warri i hailoooooooooooo!!!

EAGLES are MADE and not BORN.The bible declares that "those that wait upon the Lord,shall renew their strength,they shall mount up with wings like EAGLES,they shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and never faint"(Isaiah 40:.
   Believers need not be lazy in carrying out their duties.We need to be diligent on our work.The book of proverbs says that "Seest that a man be diligent on his works for he shall stand before KINGS nad not MEAN men.(Prov.22:29)"
   It wiill always be a bad thing to idle away one's time.Business entails total committment to a person's duty.You need to have focus like the EAGLES.Nothing distract the EAGLE from paying attention on it's prey.EAGLES are painstaking.They take risk.They can be found in altitudes where other birds hardly dare!This reports is from pilots.The EAGLES can fly across an ocean!It's strength  carries it both far and inside.
   How many CHRISTIANS are diligent on their works?
   Our Patriarch Father Abraham,Moses,Kind David and Joshua through Apostle Paul and host of others never chickened out.
   No storm overwhelms the EAGLES.EAGLES see every storm afar off and gets set for it!How many CHRISTIANS arev wise  to make provision for the future?
   EAGLES are decent sexually.The female never mates with other male EAGLES,even when the other mate dies!They parade high sense of dignity and nobility.EAGLES are full of sanctity.
   EAGLES never or hardly swings their wings but rather they wait for the tide of the wind to carry them to their destinations.While other birds waste all their energy in flapping or swinging their wings,every EAGLE takes an advantage on the winds that blow across its way.It is such winds that serves as slaves to EAGLES.The EAGLES ride on such unfriendly winds that can break the wings of ordinary birds.They often lock their wings and take on any storm that comes their way.
    Tough times they say never last,but through our GOD,we shall do valiantly.GOG has equipped us with HOLY GHOST.It is the HOLY SPIRIT that empowers the saints.The book of Phil. 4:13 says"we are able to do all things through Christ that strengthens us."
    Lets's look unto JESUS who serves as the author and finisher of our faith.He did not shift His focus from the cross that was set before Him.
     Can GOD depend on us in salvaging the souls of the people of the world?Can GOD depend on your pockets for church expansion.GOD needs prayer warriors that can stand in between the gap.CHRISTIANS are made to subdue and dominate over others.We should be practically in charge of every affair.Brethren,can the dry bones be reawakened by us?Will you be a memorial or a blot in history?
    GOD says "I love those who love me and those that seek me diligently shall find me early"PROV. 8:17

EAGLES are MADE and not BORN.The bible declares that "those that wait upon the Lord,shall renew their strength,they shall mount up with wings like EAGLES,they shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and never faint"(Isaiah 40:.
   Believers need not be lazy in carrying out their duties.We need to be diligent on our work.The book of proverbs says that "Seest that a man be diligent on his works for he shall stand before KINGS nad not MEAN men.(Prov.22:29)"
   It wiill always be a bad thing to idle away one's time.Business entails total committment to a person's duty.You need to have focus like the EAGLES.Nothing distract the EAGLE from paying attention on it's prey.EAGLES are painstaking.They take risk.They can be found in altitudes where other birds hardly dare!This reports is from pilots.The EAGLES can fly across an ocean!It's strength  carries it both far and inside.
   How many CHRISTIANS are diligent on their works?
   Our Patriarch Father Abraham,Moses,Kind David and Joshua through Apostle Paul and host of others never chickened out.
   No storm overwhelms the EAGLES.EAGLES see every storm afar off and gets set for it!How many CHRISTIANS arev wise  to make provision for the future?
   EAGLES are decent sexually.The female never mates with other male EAGLES,even when the other mate dies!They parade high sense of dignity and nobility.EAGLES are full of sanctity.
   EAGLES never or hardly swings their wings but rather they wait for the tide of the wind to carry them to their destinations.While other birds waste all their energy in flapping or swinging their wings,every EAGLE takes an advantage on the winds that blow across its way.It is such winds that serves as slaves to EAGLES.The EAGLES ride on such unfriendly winds that can break the wings of ordinary birds.They often lock their wings and take on any storm that comes their way.
    Tough times they say never last,but through our GOD,we shall do valiantly.GOG has equipped us with HOLY GHOST.It is the HOLY SPIRIT that empowers the saints.The book of Phil. 4:13 says"we are able to do all things through Christ that strengthens us."
    Lets's look unto JESUS who serves as the author and finisher of our faith.He did not shift His focus from the cross that was set before Him.
     Can GOD depend on us in salvaging the souls of the people of the world?Can GOD depend on your pockets for church expansion.GOD needs prayer warriors that can stand in between the gap.CHRISTIANS are made to subdue and dominate over others.We should be practically in charge of every affair.Brethren,can the dry bones be reawakened by us?Will you be a memorial or a blot in history?
    GOD says "I love those who love me and those that seek me diligently shall find me early"PROV. 8:17

it has gotten out of hand with this nfa issue and coaches!they should give them a chance to carry out their coaching abilites.cos every success and failure falls back to the coaches!they should be paid regularly.give them incentives that will make them feel well and do exploits!please nfa for the last time give this coaches a chance!!!nairalanders plz comment on this.cos it is very crucial.

is it true that chris benoit of wwe is dead?plz nairalanders responds

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HEY GUYS WHAT ARE U WAITING 4?ARE U THE TYPE THAT IS VAST IN STOCK EXCHANGE,SHARES AND BONDS?THEN THIS IS THE RIGHT OPPORTUNITY FO U TO PROVE IT AND SHINE!THE NIGERIAN STOCK EXCHANGE IS OFFERING CASH PRIZES TO THOSE THAT WILL MET TO THIER STANDARD IN THE ESSAY TOPIC THAT IS GIVEN ON THEIR FORMS.BUT FIRsT U MUST CURRENTLY BE A UNIVERSITY STUDENT.FOR THE COLLECTION,JUST WALK INTO ANY BRANCH OF FIRST BANK OR ACCESS BANK NEAR U AND COLLECT THE FORM.AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTION ON THE FORM.OR U CAN DOWNLOAD IT FROM THEIR OFFICIAL WEBSITE:www.nigeriastockexchange.com.YOUR FORM AND YOUR ESSAY SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO WHERE U COLLECTED IT NOT LATER THAN 31ST JULY 2007.SUCCESS!!!FOR MORE DETAILS U CAN CALL/TEXT ME ON 08076941843 OR EMAIL A MESSAGE TO ME WTH agape_love4okies@yahoo.com

NIGERIANS SHOULD NOT NEGLECT EDUCATION COS IT BULIDS A MAN IN ALL WAY ROUND.CAN You IMAGINE THE GOVT TIOLING WITH EDUCATION!.IT  IS VERY DISASTROUS.ASUU KNOWS WHERE THE SHOES PINCHES THEM.ALL THEY NEED IS THE FEDERAL GOVT TO ALLEVIATE SUCH PAIN, BUT THE REVERSE IS THE CASE AND IT IS REALLY TELLIN HARD ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE STUDENTS. MAKE THEM TO VENTURE INTO EVIL VICES.I SEE,  SINCE THEIR CHILDREN IS NOT IN THIS NIGERIAN SCHOOLS.I DONT SEE ANY REASON Y THEY SHOULD BE BOTHERED?.BUT I PLEAD THE INDULGENCE OF ASUU TO CONTINUE THE FIGHT FOR BETTER EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN NIGERIA(UNIVERSITIES).I DONT REALLY KNOW IF GRANTING THE NEEDS OF ASUU WILL REMOVE THEIR DIGNITY OR WEALTH FROM THEM, IT IS A FIGHT FOR THE NEXT GENERATIONS TO COME.NO WONDER GHANA UNIVERSITIES WENT ON STRIKE FOR 3 GOOD YEARS AND HER GOVT FINALLY ANSWER THIER PLEA.AND NOW THEIR UNIVERSITES IS RANKIN WELL IN THE WORLD AND EVEN OUR OUR STUDENTS ARE EAGER TO GO THERE!Y CANT GOVT GIVE EDUCATION A BETTER NAME IN NIGERIA SO THAT OTHER FOREIGNERS CAN COME AND PARTAKE FROM IT?SO THEY SHOULD DO EVYTHIN POSSIBLE TO ATTEND TO ASUU APPROPRIATELY!!!KEEP ON THE GOOD FIGHT!!!IT IS  A FIGHT TO THE FINISH!!!!

Abraham Joshua Heschel:
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. [New York Journal-American, April 5, 1963]



Abraham Joshua Heschel:
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.



Abraham Lincoln:
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.



Abraham Lincoln:
That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.



Abraham Lincoln:
Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon. 1854



Adlai E. Stevenson:
What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand.

speech, Libertyville, Illinois, May 21, 1954



Albert Einstein:
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.



Albert Einstein:
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.



Albert Einstein:
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.



Albert Einstein:
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

The World as I See It, 1934



Albert Einstein:
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.



Aldous Huxley:
At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.



Alfred North Whitehead:
Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.



Algernon Black:
Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.


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Anais Nin:
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.



Anna Garlin Spencer:
A successful woman preacher was once asked "what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry?" "Not one," she answered, "except the lack of a minister's wife."



Anne Frank:
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.



Benjamin Franklin:
The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.



Benjamin Franklin:
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.



Benjamin Whichcote:
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.



Bertrand Russell:
In conclusion, there is a marvelous anecdote from the occasion of Russell's ninetieth birthday that best serves to summarize his attitude toward God and religion. A London lady sat next to him at this party, and over the soup she suggested to him that he was not only the world's most famous atheist but, by this time, very probably the world's oldest atheist. "What will you do, Bertie, if it turns out you're wrong?" she asked. "I mean, what if -- uh -- when the time comes, you should meet Him? What will you say?" Russell was delighted with the question. His bright, birdlike eyes grew even brighter as he contemplated this possible future dialogue, and then he pointed a finger upward and cried, "Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence.'"

Al Seckel, in Preface to Bertrand Russell on God and Religion



Bill Cosby:
For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.



Blaise Pascal:
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.



Carl Jung:
Among all my patients in the second half of life , there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.



Carl Sandburg:
Sandburg's retelling of Lincoln's attendance at an evangelist rally led by Peter Cartwright in 1846, in response to accusations by Cartwright's followers that he was an "infidel" - Cartwright was his opponent in his race for Congress:


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Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!



Clarence Darrow:
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.

Scopes trial, Dayton, Tennessee, July 13, 1925



D. H. Lawrence:
A person has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it, and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.



David Halverstam:
Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time . . . president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.



Diderot:
A deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist. (paraphrased)



Don Hirschberg:
Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.



Elbert Hubbard:
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923



Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,
A gauntlet with a gift in it.



Emily Dickinson:
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church,
I keep it staying at Home -
With a bobolink for a Chorister,
And an Orchard, for a Dome.



Emily Dickinson:
The Bible is an antique Volume—
Written by faded men
At the suggestion of Holy Spectres—
Subjects—Bethlehem—
Eden—the ancient Homestead—
Satan—the Brigadier—
Judas—the Great Defaulter—
David—the Troubador—
Sin—a distinguished Precipice
Others must resist—
Boys that "believe" are very lonesome—
Other Boys are "lost"—
Had but the Tale a warbling Teller—
All the Boys would come—
Orpheus' Sermon captivated—
It did not condemn—



F. Forrester Church:
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.



Felix Adler:
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.



Felix Adler:
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

An Ethical Philosophy of Life



Felix Adler:
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.



Felix Adler:
Religion is a wizard, a sibyl . . .
She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration.
She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn.
She faces death, and prophesies life.



Frederick Buechner:
Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way. These are all spoken not just to yourself but to something even more familiar than yourself and even more strange than the world.



Frederick Douglass:
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.



Friedrich Schleiermacher:
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.



G Gaia:
The common dogma [of fundamentalists] is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years, That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defense against the dangerous new knowledge. , When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. , Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity.

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G.K. Chesterton:
I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.



Galileo Galilei:
I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.



Galileo Galilei:
The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.



George J. Mitchell:
Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.



Goethe:
We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.



H. L. Mencken:
Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.



H. L. Mencken:
The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.



HH the Dalai Lama:
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.



HH the Dalai Lama:
Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life.



Harvey Cox:
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by , religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

The Seduction of the Spirit, 1973



Helen Keller:
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.



Howard Nemerov:
Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.



Immanuel Kant:
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.



Isaac Bashevis Singer:
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

New York Times, December 3, 1978



Isaiah Berlin:
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.



James Baldwin:
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.



James Feibleman:
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.



James Martineau:
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.



Jessamyn West:
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

The Quaker Reader, 1962



Joan B. Campbell:
[Jesus'] ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made -- life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control?

Sojourners, August-September, 1991



John Dewey:
In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion.

The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy



John Dewey:
The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.



John Gardner:
One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him.

NYT Book Review, Jan 1983



John Godfrey Saxe:
So oft in theologic wars,
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean,
And prate about an Elephant
Not one of them has seen!


1887: referring to the Buddhist fable of the Blind Sages and the Elephant, found in the Udana, chapter 6, section 4



John Warwick Montgomery:
The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always true.



Jonathan Swift:
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.



Jonathan Swift:
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.



Karl Marx:
Religious suffering is at one and the same time the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is therefore in embryo the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.



Louisa May Alcott:
Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come.

in Little Women, chapter 36



Lucille Ball:
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.



Mark Morrison-Reed:
The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed.



Mark Twain:
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

1908, notebook



Mark Twain:
Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion –- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.



Mark Twain:
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.



Mark Twain:
In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Autobiography, 1959



Matthew Arnold:
Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye
Forever doth accompany mankind,
Hath look'd on no religion scornfully
That men did ever find.



Matthew Arnold:
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.



Milton Yinger:
Religion can be defined as a system of beliefs and practices by means of which a group of people struggles with the ultimate problems of human life.



Mohandas Gandi:
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.



Mohandas K. Gandhi:
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.



Mohandas K. Gandhi:
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.



Noam Chomsky:
Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that -- it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.



Paul Ricoeur:
To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.



Paul Tillich:
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Saturday Evening Post, June 14, 1958



Paul Tillich:
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of our life.



Pearl S. Buck:
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.



Pearl S. Buck:
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.



Peter F. Drucker:
There are no creeds in mathematics.



Protagoras:
As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.



Ralph Sockman:
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.



Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.



Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.



Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.



Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.



Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.



Ralph Waldo Emerson:
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.



Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.



Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.



Rebecca West:
Did St. Francis really preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.



Richard Francis Burton:
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.



Robert A. Heinlein:
One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.



Robert G. Ingersoll:
Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.



Robert Ingersoll:
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.



Sigmund Freud:
Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.



Sir Julian Huxley:
Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable , and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief. Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over, that we must construct some thing to take its place.

The New Divinity



Sophia Lyon Fahs:
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.



Susan B. Anthony:
I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.



T.S. Eliot:
Any religion, is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

Selected Essays, 1927



Theodore Dreiser:
If I were personally to define religion I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.

(attributed)



Thomas Erskine:
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.



Thomas Hobbes:
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Leviathan



Thomas Jefferson:
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.



Thomas Jefferson:
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.



Thomas Jefferson:
I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

1816, in a letter to Mrs. H. Harrison Smith



Thomas Jefferson:
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.



Thomas Jefferson:
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.



Thomas Moore:
The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.



Thomas Paine:
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.



Thomas Paine:
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.



Thomas Wentworth Higginson:
All , religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by its best or its worst as you will, by its high-water mark of virtue or its low-water mark of vice. But falsehood begins when you measure the ebb of any other religion against the flood-tide of your own. There is a noble and a base side to every history.



Unknown:
Some children's answers to church school questions - from the Church of England:


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Voltaire:
If God did not exist it would be necessary for us to invent Him.



Voltaire:
When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.



Walt Whitman:
In the faces of men and women I see God.



Willa Cather:
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. (Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1927)



William James:
Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902



William O. Douglas:
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

opinion, United States v. Ballard, 1944



William Robertson Smith:
Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.



William Robertson Smith :
But we must not forget, this ritual expressed, certain ideas which lie at the very root of true religion, the fellowship of the worshippers with one another in their fellowship with the deity, and the consecration of the bonds of kinship as the type of all right ethical relations between man and man.



William Robertson Smith :
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people, and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.



Yossi Klein Halevi:
But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn't just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting.

A. W. Tozer:
Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.



Abraham Lincoln:
That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.



Aggie Pate:
I didn't know Onward Christian Soldiers was a Christian song.

at a non-denominational mayor's breakfast, Fort Worth, Texas



Alexis deTocqueville:
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts - the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.



Ambrose Bierce:
Christian: One who thinks the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.



Benjamin Franklin:
The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.



C. I. Scofield:
The church has failed to follow her appointed pathway of separation, holiness, heavenliness and testimony to an absent but coming Christ; she has turned aside from that purpose to the work of civilizing the world, building magnificent temples, and acquiring earthly power and wealth, and, in this way, has ceased to follow in the footsteps of Him who had not where to lay His head.



C. S. Lewis:
If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?



C. S. Lewis:
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.



C. S. Lewis:
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.



C.S. Lewis:
Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.



Dan Quayle:
, I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.



Darkmist42:
Throughout most of the history of the Christian religion books were quite scarce -- prohibitively expensive and time consuming to make, When one considers this, it seems absurd that the Christian religion somehow is founded on the idea that Bibles were to function as some kind of instruction manual to be kept, studied, and followed to the letter by all true believers.


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David Barton:
Whatever is Christian is legal; whatever is not is illegal.

president of Wallbuilders, Inc. quoting William Penn's 1681 PA constitution



Dean Stanley:
The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.



Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
Politics are not the task of a Christian.



Edward R. Murrow:
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.



Francois Arouet:
What a terrible time this is to be a Christian. The churches have failed and betrayed us, and the ministry preaches hate and murder. If there is a sane and reasoning voice in the Christian church today it is sadly silent.

Kauai Times editorial



Friedrich Nietzsche:
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the sense, of the joy of the senses, of joy in general is Christian.



G. K. Chesterton:
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.



Gary Wills:
Jesus as a person does not exist outside the gospels. The only Jesus we have is the Jesus of faith.



Harry Emerson Fosdick (attributed):
Someone has said, "If we could get religion like a Baptist, experience it like a Methodist, be positive about it like a Disciple, be proud of it like an Episcopalian, pay for it like a Presbyterian, propagate it like an Adventist, and enjoy it like an Afro-American -- that would be some religion!"



Isaac Asimov:
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.



James Madison:
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects?

Memorial and Remonstrance



James Russell Lowell:
We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.



Joan B. Campbell:
[Jesus'] ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made -- life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control?

Sojourners, August-September, 1991



John Calvin:
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.



John Calvin:
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?



John Wesley:
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.



Kathleen Norris:
Perfection, in a Christian sense, means becoming mature enough to give ourselves to others.



Leo Tolstoy:
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the State, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars.



Ma Ferguson:
If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

Governor of Texas (circa 1920)



Marian Wright Edelman:
When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, "Let all children come unto me."



Minna Canth:
Christianity has been buried inside the walls of churches and secured with the shackles of dogmatism. Let it be liberated to come into the midst of us and teach us freedom, equality and love.



Oliver Wendell Holmes:
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.



Otto von Bismarck:
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.



Pearl S. Buck:
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.



Randall Terry:
I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good , if a Christian voted for Clinton, he sinned against God. It's that simple. Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country, former leader of Operation Rescue



Salman Rushdie:
Fundamentalism isn't about religion. It's about power.



Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.



Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.



Tonia Jauch:
In our work of challenging them, we need to keep several factors in mind. First of all, we must not lump all Christians in with the RRR. The majority of main-line Christians are as appalled at their tactics as we are. Nor, as we have seen, dare we stick all Evangelicals into one category either. And among the self-identified RRR themselves, there is not theological agreement, so we need to avoid guilt-by-association.
Secondly, we need to be vigilant not to project our own shadow side onto them and demonize them, seeing them as the enemy. We must avoid being condescending or patronizing. I see them as extremely fearful people, desperately searching for security in a rapidly-changing world, who need our love and compassion, while we, at the same time, effectively interrupt their tactics.

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Southern California Unit Board

Frederick Brooks, Jr.:
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists. But however the selection process works, the result is indisputable: "This time it will surely run," or "I just found the last bug." (The Mythical Man Month)



Gerald Weinberg:
If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.



Jack Lynch:
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.



Joseph Campbell:
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.



Pablo Picasso:
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.



Paul Valery:
The ultimate "computer," our own brain, uses only ten watts of power -- one-tenth the energy consumed by a hundred-watt bulb.



Robert Wilensky:
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.



Unknown:
Asking if computers can think is like asking if submarines can swim.



Unknown:
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.



Werner von Braun:
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft , and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

Mary Wollstonecraft:
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.



Abraham Lincoln:
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.



Abraham Lincoln:
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute.



Adlai Stevenson:
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends, that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. [1952]



Aesop:
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.



Albert Einstein:
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.



Aldous Huxley:
At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.



Alex Carey:
, the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

Australian social scientist, quoted by Noam Chomsky in World Orders Old and New



Anais Nin:
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.



Angela Davis:
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.



Ann Richards:
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.



Aristotle:
Man is by nature a political animal.



Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.:
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.



Benjamin Whichcote:
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.



Bill Moyers:
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.



Blaise Pascal:
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.



Carl Sandberg:
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.



Carl Schurz:
The peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country -- when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."



Confucius:
To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.



Dave Barry:
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club.



David Broder:
Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.



Demosthenes:
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.



Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
Politics are not the task of a Christian.



Edward Dowling:
The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it. [1941]



Eleanor Roosevelt:
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.



Eleanor Roosevelt:
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?



Freda Adler:
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.



Friedrich Nietzsche:
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule.



George Bernard Shaw:
Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?"

frequently attributed to Robert F. (Bobby) Kennedy, who used it in a speech which his brother, Edward F. (Teddy) Kennedy quoted at RFK's funeral.



George Burns:
Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.



George J. Mitchell:
Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.



George Orwell:
In our age there is no such thing as "keeping out of politics." All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.



George Orwell:
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.



George Wilhelm Hegel:
What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles.



George Will:
You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.



Goethe:
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.



Groucho Marx:
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.



H. G. Wells:
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.



H. L. Mencken:
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.



H. L. Mencken:
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.



H. L. Mencken:
A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.



Harry S Truman:
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.



Henrik Ibsen:
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.



Hermann Goering:
Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. quote verified at snopes.com



Hubert H. Humphrey:
Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.



James Madison:
A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.



Jane Auer:
Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.



Jean Hollands:
The person who says "I'm not political" is in great danger, Only the fittest will survive, and the fittest will be the ones who understand their office's politics.



Jeff Greenfield:
More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.



Jesse Jackson:
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.



Jim Hightower:
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.



Jimmy Carter:
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.



John Adams:
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.



John Adams:
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.



John F. Kennedy:
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.



John F. Kennedy:
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.



John Gardner:
The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.



John Kenneth Galbraith:
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.



John Kenneth Galbraith:
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.



Johnny Carson:
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.



Justice William O. Douglas:
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.



Lily Tomlin:
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.



Margaret Chase Smith:
My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned, not bought.



Marian Wright Edelman:
We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.



Marian Wright Edelman:
People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.



Mark Twain:
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.



Mark Twain:
Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.



Mark Twain:
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.



Mark Twain:
Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.



Mary Wollstonecraft:
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.



Michael Harrington:
That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.



Mohandas K. Gandhi:
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.



Molly Ivins:
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.



Molly Ivins:
As a veteran of many an electoral defeat at the polls, may I remind you of the proper Texan attitude toward slaughter at the polls?

A few years before Billie Carr died this September at age 74, a friend called to ask how she was doing. "Well," she said, "They just impeached my boy up in Washington, there's not a Democrat left in statewide office in Texas, the Republicans have taken every judgeship in Harris County, and yesterday I found out I have cancer."

Pause.

"I think I'll go out and get a pregnancy test because with my luck, it'll come back positive."



Molly Ivins:
Good thing we've still got politics in Texas -- finest form of free entertainment ever invented.



Molly Ivins:
Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?

Oh, it's just that your life is at stake.



Molly Ivins:
You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.



Nikita Krushchev:
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.



Noam Chomsky:
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.



Noam Chomsky:
If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time.



Noam Chomsky:
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.



Noam Chomsky:
There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past.



Oscar Levant:
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.



Otto Van Bismarck:
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.



Paul Wellstone:
The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.



Paulo Freire:
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.



Plato:
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.



Plato:
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.



Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.



Ralph Waldo Emerson:
These rabble at Washington , see, against the unanimous expression of the people, how much a little well-directed effrontery can achieve, how much crime the people will bear, and they proceed from step to step, (Journal, June 1846)



Richard M. Nixon:
Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.



Robert Coles:
Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?



Robert Frost:
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.



Robert Louis Stevenson:
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.



Robert M. Hutchins:
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.



Saul Alinsky:
As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.



Sinclair Lewis:
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.



Thomas Jefferson:
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.



Thomas Jefferson:
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.



Thomas Jefferson:
Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,—entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigour, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; …freedom of religion; freedom of the press; freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, — these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.



Thomas Jefferson:
If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.




Thomas Jefferson:
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.



Vaclav Havel:
Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.



Wendell Phillips:
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.



Will Rogers:
I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.

Albert Schweitzer:
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.



Alex Noble:
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.



Alexander Pope:
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.



Anne Frank:
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.



Benjamin Haydon:
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.



Charles Dickens:
Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.



Cicero:
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.



Confucius:
He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.



Dorothy Rowe:
We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.



Edmund Burke:
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.



Elbert Hubbard:
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923



Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
Good critics, who have stamped out poets' hope,
Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state,
Good patriots, who for a theory risked a cause.



H. L. Mencken:
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.



Henry Brooks Adam:
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.



Isaac Asimov:
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.



Jane Addams:
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.



John Wesley:
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.



Mary Wollstonecraft:
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.



Matthew Henry:
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.



Paramahansa Yogananda:
Life has a bright side and a dark side, for the world of relativity is composed of light and shadows. If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.



Paul Ricoeur:
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.



Plato:
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.



Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.



Robert Heinlein:
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil.



Robert Louis Stevenson:
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.



Sydney J. Harris:
Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.



Theodore Parker:
Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. Things refuse to be mismanaged long.



Thomas Paine:
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.



Unknown:
In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.



Vaclav Havel:
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.



William James:
[T]he true is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as the right is only the expedient in the way of our thinking.



William Penn:
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.



William Shakespeare:
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Alex Noble :
f I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.



Andre Gide:
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.



Baltasar Gracian:
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.



Cicero:
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.



Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.



Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman:
It is no longer enough to be smart -- all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential.



Edith Wharton:
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.



Elbert Hubbard:
To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.



Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.



Georg C. Lichtenberg:
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.



George Bernard Shaw:
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.



George Bernard Shaw:
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.



George Burns:
Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.



George Santayana:
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.



Groucho Marx:
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.



Helen Keller:
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.



Henry David Thoreau:
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.



Henry David Thoreau:
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.



Immanuel Kant:
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.



Immanuel Kant:
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.



Isaac D'Israeli:
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.



J. Michael Straczynski:
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.



Jonathan Kozol:
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher



Kalidasa:
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!



Lin Yutang:
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.



Marcel Proust:
The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.



Mark Twain:
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.



Mark Twain - attributed in error:
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.



Marlene Dietrich:
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.



Martin Fischer:
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.



Mary Catherine Bateson:
Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.



Mohandas K. Gandhi:
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.



Norman Cousins:
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.



Norman Cousins:
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.



Pierre Abelard:
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.



Proverbs 17:28:
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.



Rachel Carson:
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.



Robert Green Ingersoll:
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.



Robert Heinlein:
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil.



Robert Louis Stevenson:
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.



Sam Levenson:
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.



Sam Levenson:
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.



Samuel Smiles :
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.



Sophocles:
A short saying often contains much wisdom.



Sophocles:
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.



Stephen Covey:
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.



Stephen Sigmund:
Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant.



Stephen Vincent Benét:
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.



Sydney J. Harris:
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.



Theodore Roosevelt:
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.



Theodore Rubin:
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.



Thomas Jefferson:
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.



Tryon Edwards:
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.



Umberto Eco:
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.



Vernon Cooper:
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.



Wallace Stegner:
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.



William Golding:
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.



William Menninger:
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.



William Saroyan:
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Alex Noble :
f I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.



Andre Gide:
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.



Baltasar Gracian:
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.



Cicero:
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.



Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.



Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman:
It is no longer enough to be smart -- all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential.



Edith Wharton:
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.



Elbert Hubbard:
To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.



Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.



Georg C. Lichtenberg:
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.



George Bernard Shaw:
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.



George Bernard Shaw:
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.



George Burns:
Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.



George Santayana:
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.



Groucho Marx:
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.



Helen Keller:
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.



Henry David Thoreau:
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.



Henry David Thoreau:
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.



Immanuel Kant:
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.



Immanuel Kant:
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.



Isaac D'Israeli:
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.



J. Michael Straczynski:
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.



Jonathan Kozol:
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher



Kalidasa:
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!



Lin Yutang:
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.



Marcel Proust:
The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.



Mark Twain:
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.



Mark Twain - attributed in error:
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.



Marlene Dietrich:
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.



Martin Fischer:
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.



Mary Catherine Bateson:
Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.



Mohandas K. Gandhi:
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.



Norman Cousins:
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.



Norman Cousins:
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.



Pierre Abelard:
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.



Proverbs 17:28:
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.



Rachel Carson:
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.



Robert Green Ingersoll:
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.



Robert Heinlein:
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil.



Robert Louis Stevenson:
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.



Sam Levenson:
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.



Sam Levenson:
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.



Samuel Smiles :
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.



Sophocles:
A short saying often contains much wisdom.



Sophocles:
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.



Stephen Covey:
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.



Stephen Sigmund:
Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant.



Stephen Vincent Benét:
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.



Sydney J. Harris:
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.



Theodore Roosevelt:
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.



Theodore Rubin:
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.



Thomas Jefferson:
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.



Tryon Edwards:
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.



Umberto Eco:
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.



Vernon Cooper:
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.



Wallace Stegner:
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.



William Golding:
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.



William Menninger:
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.



William Saroyan:
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.