Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he just picks himself up and stumbles on.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)
The body, that is but dust; the soul, it is a bud of eternity.
—Nathaniel Culverwell (English Theologian, Philosopher)
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.
—Karl Menninger (American Psychiatrist)
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
—Johann Gottfried Herder (German Critic, Poet)
Let us not believe that it is enough to read without unction, to speculate without devotion, to investigate without wonder, to observe without joy, to act without godly zeal, to know without love, to understand without humility, to strive without divine grace, or to reflect as a mirror without divinely inspired wisdom.
—Bonaventure (Italian Christian Scholar)
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man’s heart.
—Francesco Guicciardini (Italian Historian)
Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.
—Socrates (Ancient Greek Philosopher)
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
—Italo Calvino (Italian Novelist, Writer)
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)
Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one’s eternal peril.
—Laurens van der Post (South African Explorer, Writer)
There’s good in everybody. Boost. Don’t knock.
—Warren G. Harding (American Politician, Publisher)