All Quotes
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There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.John F. Kennedy
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.Karl Kraus
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.Ansel Adams
If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.Francis Saint De Sales
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.Carl Jung
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.Plato
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.Ralph Waldo Emerson
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.Henry David Thoreau
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.Hugh Blair