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Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. - Ancient Indian Proverb |
| Famous Quote | A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth. - Christopher Wren An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. - Anatole France Arguing with a fool proves there are two. - Doris M. Smith Be led by reason. - Greek Proverb Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. - Harriet Beecher Stowe Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten , but they may start a winning game. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Discoveries are often made by not following instructions; by going off the main road; by trying the untried. - Frank Tyger Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert Gyorgyi Education is the ability to meet life's situations. - Dr. John G. Hibben Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. - Mother Teresa Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein Half knowledge is worse than ignorance. - Thomas B. Macaulay He that never changes his opinion, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow that he is today. - Tyron Edwards How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems. - Robert Southey I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. - Mother Teresa I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned. - Duke of Wellington I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. - George Bernard Shaw I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion. - Thomas Jefferson If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville Wright If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. - Mother Teresa If you judge people, you have no time to love them - Mother Teresa In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth that humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo Galilei It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. - Albert Einstein Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. - Voltaire Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God the rest will be given. - Mother Teresa Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular, but reason remains the property of the few. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action. - Mother Teresa Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few ye - Marcel Proust. Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. - Jeremy Taylor Only intuition can save you from the most dangerous individual of all, the articulate incompetent. - Robert Bernstein Only the educated are free. - Epictetus Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt. - Antoinette Deshoulieres Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon. - Thomas Blount The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. - Sam Houston The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err. - Thomas Carlyle The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. - Samuel Butler The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes when they do. - Malcolm Forbes The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. - Benjamin D'Israeli They that will not be counseled cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason, she will rap you on the knuckles. - Benjamin Franklin Think for yourself. Whatever is happening at the moment, try to think for your self. - Jean Riboud Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. - Ancient Indian Proverb We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love - Mother Teresa What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning What the fool cannot learn, he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of a latent idiocy. - Marie Corelli What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - John Lubbock Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same. - Emily Bronte When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us - Helen Keller Where there is love there is life - Mahatma Gandhi Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right - Henry Ford Winning is not everything. It's the only thing. - Vince Lombardi You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln Albert Einstein Albert Gyorgyi Anatole France Ancient Indian Proverb Antoinette Deshoulieres Benjamin D'Israeli Benjamin Franklin Christopher Wren Doris M. Smith Dr. John G. Hibben Duke of Wellington Elizabeth Barrett Browning Emily Bronte Epictetus Frank Tyger Galileo Galilei George Bernard Shaw Greek Proverb Harriet Beecher Stowe Helen Keller Henry Ford Jean Riboud Jeremy Taylor Johann Wolfgang von Goethe John Lubbock Mahatma Gandhi Malcolm Forbes Marcel Proust. Marie Corelli Mother Teresa Orville Wright Plato Robert Bernstein Robert Southey Sam Houston Samuel Butler Thomas B. Macaulay Thomas Blount Thomas Carlyle Thomas Edison Thomas Jefferson Tyron Edwards Vince Lombardi Voltaire |