You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. (Seneca)
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (Emile Zola)
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. (Charles Kingsley)
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. (H. G. Wells)
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. (Jonathan Swift)
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure. (Seneca)
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. (Tryon Edwards)
Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it. (Euripides)
Nature is wont to hide herself. (Heraclitus)
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. (Jacob Chanowski)
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. (H.R. Haldeman)
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. (Edward Abbey)
Moral victories don't count. (Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower)
Crime is naught but misdirected energy. (Emma Goldman)
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. (Bertrand Russell)
Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart. (Hannah Whitall Smith)
We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know. (Wystan Hugh Auden)