I’m a Sucker for Quotes

Quotes are funny things, because they sum up a point in such a memorably succinct way, and yet there is usually a quote that sums up the opposing point equally well. Still, I love them.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step ~ Ancient Chinese Proverb

Love your crooked neighbor with your crooked heart ~ W.H. Auden

This above all: To thine own self be true ~Polonius, in Hamlet~ William Shakespeare

There is more to life than speeding it up ~ Mohandas Ghandi

We must be the change we wish to see in the world ~ Mohandas Ghandi

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are ~ Anais Nin

I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work ~ Thomas Edison

Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count really count ~ Albert Einstein

Take nothing on it’s looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule ~ Charles Dickens, in Great Expectations

….the chief proof of a man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in The Sign of The Four

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education ~ Albert Einstein

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in a different time ~ Rabbinical saying

It is not what you look at that matters. It is what you see ~ Henry David Thoreau

Skill to do comes of doing ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are all something, but none of us are everything ~ Blaise Pascal

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy ~ Martin Luther King

The best way out is always through ~ Robert Frost

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self ~ Confucius

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade ~ Ancient Chinese Proverb

Where there’s a will there’s a way ~ Jay, who heard it somewhere

To save every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. ~ Aldo Leopold

It is no obstacle to the truth of a thing that it is not accepted by many ~ Benedictus Spinoza

Quote of the Week Archives

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes ~ Marcel Proust

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A person’s a person no matter how small ~ Theodor Suess Geisell in Horton Hears a Who

The purpose of life is living ~ Clarence Seward Darrow

It often takes more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong ~ Abraham Lincoln

Knowledge is power ~ Sir Francis Bacon

A witty saying proves nothing ~ Voltaire

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, “You owe me.” ~ Hafiz

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ” I will try again tomorrow” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best ~ William Blake

All generalizations are false, including this one ~ Blaise Pascal

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated ~ Alex Bourne

He who does not know history is destined to remain a child ~ Cicero

A man with outward courage dares to die. A man with inward courage dares to live ~ Lao Tzu

Truth is that which breathes, and allows others to breathe ~ Jaan Kaplinski

Tra dire al fare, c’e in mezzo il mere ~ Italian proverb (Between the saying and the doing lies the sea)