Quotations: Wisdom

***** "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."-H. Jackson Browne

***** "People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated."-John Kenneth Galbraith

***** "Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught."-J. C. Watts

***** "Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible."-Linus Pauling

***** "Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do."-James Harvey Robinson

***** "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

***** "What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is increasing--that resistance has been overcome. Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but competence. The first principle of our humanism: The weak and the failures shall perish. They ought even to be helped to perish."-Friedrich Nietzsche

***** "Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger."-Friedrich Nietzsche

***** "A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that cetainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil."-Friedrich Nietzsche
***** "All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players:They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts."-William Shakespeare

***** "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."-Franklin D. Roosevelt

***** "The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none."-Thomas Carlyle

***** "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"-Abraham Lincoln

***** "To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."-Henri Poincaré

***** "Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it."-Isaac Newton

***** "When the passions become masters, they are vices."-Blaise Pascal

***** "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 have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."-J. B. S. Haldane

***** "There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth."-Niels Bohr

***** "When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."-Anatole France