Miscellaneous Quotes

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man�s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.

A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

Pain is just weakness leaving the body.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Speed provides the one great modern pleasure.

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' narrow chinks of his cavern.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Boldness be my friend.

Everyone has talent; what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been, and there you long to return.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

People only see what they are prepared to see.