Some Interesting Quotes
Doing easily what others find
difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri
Frederic Amiel
The most radical revolutionary will
become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Hannah
Arendt
The bad man is continually at war
with, and in opposition to, himself.
Aristotle
The
worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked,
but to be ineptly defended.
Frederic
Bastiat
The only thing necessary for the
triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund
Burke
Never do today what you can put off
till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Aaron
Burr
The devil, when he dresses himself in
angel's cloths, can only be detected by experts of exceptional skill, and so
often does he attempt this disguise that it is hardly safe to be seen talking
to an angel at all.
Samuel
Butler
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Cervantes
The sign of a great man is that the
closer you get, the greater he seems.
Chafetz
Chaim
The aggressor is always peace-loving;
he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.
Carl
von Clausewitz
Reality is that which, when you stop
believing in it, doesn't go away.
Philip
K. Dick
A great civilization is not conquered
from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
Will
Durant
When you are courting a nice girl an
hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like
an hour. That's relativity.
Albert
Einstein
To be surprised, to wonder, is to
begin to understand.
Jose
Ortega y Gasset
Being brilliant is no great feat if
you respect nothing.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
A fool hath no dialogue within
himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.
Lord
Halifax
Those who make peaceful revolution
impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John
Kennedy
Where all think alike, no one thinks
very much.
Walter
Lippmann
All armed Prophets have been victorious,
and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
Niccolo
Machiavelli
One of the advantages of being
disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A.
Milne
War is an ugly thing, but not the
ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic
feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who
has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important
than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of
being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John
Stuart Mill
Throughout the ages there have always
been hopeful politicians who believe that if only the peoples of the world
would come together they would love and understand each other. It is a tragic
delusion.
Steven
Runciman
Yet such is human nature that a man
will admit far more readily to being a sinner than a fool.
Steven
Runciman
He who can take no interest in what
is small will take false interest in what is great.
John
Ruskin
Intellect is invisible to the man who
has none.
Arthur
Schopenhauer
When a true genius appears in this
world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy
against him.
Jonathan
Swift
Civilizations can only be understood
by those who are civilized.
Alfred
North Whitehead
Last updated October 3, 2006