H. G. Wells on History and Education
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
Clive Barnes on Television
“Television is the first truly democratic culture – the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.”
Floyd Dell on Idleness
“Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.”
Arthur C. Clarke on Intelligence
“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
Albert Einstein on God & Science
“God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.” Albert Einstein
Gail Sheehy on Change and Life
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.”
Thomas Sowell on Truth
“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth–anonymously and posthumously.”
Francis Bacon on Certainties
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.”
Robertson Davies on Children
“A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.”
Mark Twain on Life
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
Howard Scott on Business
“Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”
The Bible on Love
“Hatred stirs up trouble; love overlooks the wrongs that others do.”
Hob Broun on Realism
“Realism… has no more to do with reality than anything else.”
Bob Wells on Government
“For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.”
Marjorie Stoneman Douglas on the Future
“The future lies in the strength with which people can set their powers of creation against their impulses for destruction. Perhaps this is the unending frontier.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton on Adventure
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.”
Pappilon on Character
“A temptation resisted is a true measure of character.”
Epictetus on Difficulty
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.”
Socrates on Marriage
“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.”
Danny Kaye on Life
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”
Alfred North Whitehead’s Cynical Quote
“Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.”
Mark Twain on Patriotism
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
Albert Einstein on Success
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
Otto von Bismarck Cynical Quote
“When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of putting it into practice.”
Thomas A. Edison on Friendship
“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”
