Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
—Common Proverb
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
—T. S. Eliot (American-born British Poet)
Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.
—William Blake (English Poet)
For knowledge, too, is itself power.
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle… (or) Einstein’s Theory of Relativity … (or) the Second Theory of Thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Civil Rights Leader)
When thinking won’t cure fear, action will.
—W. Clement Stone (American Businessperson)
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
—Zig Ziglar (American Author)
When we know how to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the hearts of others.
—Denis Diderot (French Philosopher)
What a man knows should find its expression in what he does; the value of superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood.
—Christian Nestell Bovee
Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.
—Seth Godin (American Entrepreneur)
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
—Publilius Syrus (Syrian-born Latin Writer)
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
—Blaise Pascal (French Catholic Mathematician)
Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.
—Leonardo da Vinci (Italian Polymath)
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.
—H. L. Mencken (American Journalist)
It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
—Joseph Addison (English Essayist)
If you want to be important – that’s wonderful. If you want to be great – that’s wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That’s your new definition of greatness – it means that everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know the second law of thermodynamics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love…
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Civil Rights Leader)
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
—William Hazlitt (English Essayist)