Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)
We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking Him for them.
—Vincent de Paul (French Catholic Saint)
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (German Scientist)
Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.
—Anonymous
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
—Francis de Sales (French Catholic Saint)
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
—Unknown
You cannot solve the problem with the same kind of thinking that has created the problem.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)
In the final analysis there is no other solution to man’s progress but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decisions, the day’s generous utterances and the day’s good deed.
—Clare Boothe Luce (American Playwright)
Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.
—Michel de Montaigne (French Philosopher)
I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
—Tim Robbins
Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge—broad, deep knowledge—is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man’s progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)