Science
Give me somewhere to stand, and I will move the earth.
ARCHIMEDES
Yet it does move. (The earth moves round the sun)
GALILEI, GALILIO
Logic and metaphysics make us of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and they do the least work.
Charls Caleb Colton
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Abraham Lincoln
We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.
Maria Montessori
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
Self
It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.
BENTLEY, RICHARD
He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.
BURKE, EDMUND
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. This might be thought out at great length.
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL
A rare bird on the earth and very like a black swan.
JUVENAL
Who is to guard the guards themselves?
JUVENAL
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Demosthenes
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
Margaret Fuller
The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.
Eric Hoffer
… if at the end I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at least have one friend remaining and that one shall be down inside me.
Abraham Lincoln
What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.
Henry Van Dyke
Sex
The weaker sex, to piety more prone.
ALEXANDER, SIR WILLIAM
All the privilege I claim for my own sex … is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
SMITH, SYDNEY
I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.
Henry David Thoreau
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
Pierre Trudeau
Ships
Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Far, Far ahead, in all her seamen know.
CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH
Being in a ship is being in jail, with the chance of being drowned … A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
A life on the ocean wave.
A home on the rolling deep.
SARGENT, EPES
It is cheering to see that the rats are still around—the ship is not sinking.
Eric Hoffer
Silence
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung;
Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung,
Majestic silence!
HEBER, REGINALD
And silence, like a poultice, comes. To heal the blows of sound.
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL
He went in silence along the shore of the loud-sounding sea.
HOMER
The dust and silence of the upper shelf.
MACAULAY, THOMAS
But answer came there none.
SCOTT, SIR WALTER, BARONET
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were built little happy, if I could say how much.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
TUPPER, MARTIN FARQUHAR
Only in the depth of pure silence can we hear God’s voice.
Silence is like an upright empty glass that is capable of being filled with, and retaining, the water of knowledge.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and
restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature, trees, flowers, grass grwos in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
MOTHER TERESA
Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative
inspiration, knowledge, and stabitlity that comes from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.
DEEPAK CHOPRA
Sleep
If ever I ate a good supper at night,
I dream’d of the devil, and wak’d in a fright.
ANSTEY, CHRISTOPHER
My native land—good night!
BYRON, GEORGE
How wonderful is Death,
Death and his brother Sleep.
SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
If you would relish food, labour for it before you take it; if you enjoy clothing, pay for it before you wear it; if you would sleep soundly, take a clear conscience to bed with you.
Benjamin Franklin
Smile
Even children followed with endearing wile,
And plucked his gown, to share the good man’s smile.
GOLDSMITH, OLIVER
Better by far that you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA GEORGINA
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
MOHANDAS GANDHI
A smile costs nothing; anger is so expensive.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
Society
For solitude sometimes is best society,
And short retirement urges sweet return.
MILTON, JOHN
We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.
Winston Churchill
The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow—by the tilt of the social landscape.
Eric Hoffer
Soldiers
… unless one values the lives of his soldiers and is tormented by their ordeal he is unfit to command.
Omar Nelson Bradley
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
Stonewall Jackson
…. It has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in country’s cause. The highest merit, then, is due to the soldier.
Abraham Lincoln
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
General George S. Patton
So, as you go into battle, remember you ancestors and remember your descendants.
Tacitus
These endured all and gave all that justice among nations might prevail and that mankind might enjoy freedom and inherit peace.
Unknown
Solution
For the watch to babble and talk is most tolerable and not to be endured.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
There is always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken
Space
….Well, space is there, and we’re going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.
John F. Kennedy
Some say God is living in space. I was looking around very attentively, but I did not see anyone there. I did not detect either angels or gods…. I don’t believe in God. I believe in man—his strength, his possibilities, his reason.
Gherman Titov
I don’t know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
JOHN GLENN
You know, the planet (Earth) from space is not ‘hard’; it’s very mobile, with plate tectonics redrawing geography. Earth from space looks like a planet; it’s not about cities or borders
SUNITA WILLIAMS
To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature—could one dream of anything more? When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!
YURI GAGARIN
Speaking Out
A frigid and calculated lie.
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR
I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.
Benjamin Franklin
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative.
Oliver Goldsmith
Singular indeed that the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.
Abraham Lincoln
Debate in the death of conversation.
Emil Ludwig
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
Socrates
He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.
Publilius Syrus
Spending
Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
Calvin Coolidge
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.
Everett M. Dirksen
That most delicious of all privileges—spending other people’s money.
John Randolph
Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it’s not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
Will Rogers
Spirit
It is an awkward thing to play with souls,
And matter enough to save one’s own.
BROWNING, ROBERT
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.
DRYDEN, JOHN
I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul
Under the ribs of death.
MILTON, JOHN
Statesman
The minds of some of our own statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.
MOORE, THOMAS
When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties… they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
Robert Bolt
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
John Stuart Mill
Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.
Woodrow Wilson
Statistics
The individuals source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.
Josiah Stamp
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Mark Twain
Strength
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
Francois De La Rochfoucauld
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
Wendell Willkie
Strike
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
COOLIDGE, CALVIN
The time-honoured bread-sauce of the happy ending.
JAMES, HENERY
To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honour, while you strike him down,
The foe that comes with fearless eyes.
NEWBOLT, SIR HENRY JOHN
I am glad to know that there is a system of labour where the labourer can strike if he wants to! I would pray to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.
Abraham Lincoln
Success
To burn always with this hard, gemlike fame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
PATER, WALTER HORATIO
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
Lord Thomas R. Dewar
I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbour, …. the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the Gods.
Herodotus
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
There is only one success…to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
Christopher Morley
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Anthony Trollope
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Henry David Thorea
