Religion is the last refuge of human savagery
—Alfred North Whitehead (English Mathematician)
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
—Muriel Strode (American Author, Businesswoman)
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.
—Charles Caleb Colton (English Angelic Priest)
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
—Jim Rohn (American Entrepreneur)
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow.
—Victor Hugo (French Novelist)
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)
You’re neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You’re right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right—and that’s the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don’t have to worry about anybody else.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)
I can sympathize with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.
—Aldous Huxley (English Humanist)
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
—Elbert Hubbard (American Writer)