“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”
—John Stuart Mill
June 2011
76 posts
“Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.”
—Cullen Hightower
May 2011
166 posts
“Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
—C. S. Lewis
“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
—William Shakespeare
“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
—Oscar Wilde
“The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.”
—Dean Acheson
“Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.”
—Lord Chesterfield
“The person who knows “how” will always have a job. The person who knows “why” will always be his boss.”
—Diane Ravitch
“Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.”
—Marlon Brando
“Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.”
—Otto Von Bismarck
“This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.”
—Zig Ziglar
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
—Albert Einstein
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
—Haruki Murakami
“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
—C. S. Lewis
“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey
“The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.”
—W. S. Maugham
“Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.”
—Jimmy Durante
