Favorite Quotes

"The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life." - Barbauld

 

"Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb." - Baur

 

"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united." - von Humboldt

 

"Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth." - Vico

 

"One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic." - Hull

 

"I have read your book and much like it." - Hadas

 

"One faces the future with one's past." - Buck

 

"Speech is civilization itself." - Mann

 

"Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory." - Faber

 

"People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not." - Leopardi

 

"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place." - Bastiat

 

"When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached." - Leibniz

 

"Solitude is independence." - Hesse

 

"Procrastination is the thief of time." - Young

 

"Life is made up of marble and mud." - Hawthorne

 

"So little done, so much to do." - Rhodes

 

"If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery." - Jones

 

"Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger." - Cahan

 

"I have ways of making money that you know nothing of." - Rockefeller

 

"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." - Herold