The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds. (Sankara)
A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom -- it's gone. (Edward R. Murrow)
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. (Francis Bacon)
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. (Karl Kraus)
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time. (Thomas Carlyle)
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. (Josh Billings)
Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less. (Joel Rosenberg)
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. (Voltaire)
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions. (Albert Einstein)
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. (Peter Ustinov)
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. (Lucille Ball)
Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research. (Marie Curie)
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future. (Graham Green)
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul. (Alice James)
Judgement, not passion should prevail. (Epicharmus)
Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want. (Robert Bringle)
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. (James 210 Bible)
Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons. (John Lancaster Spalding)
There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion. (Anatole France)
Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. (Chinese Proverb)