Selected quotes - page 12

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. (Thomas Aquinas)
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Do everything possible on your part. God will take care of the impossible. View quote
And in the most difficult moments, remember that time will pass and life will show that everything was for the better. View quote
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. View quote
Niels Bohr
Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face. View quote
Victor Hugo
I think, therefore I am. View quote
René Descartes
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. View quote
Jean Rostand
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing. View quote
Seneca
A friend is a gift you give yourself. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor. (Marcus Aurelius)
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account. View quote
Euripides
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. View quote
Albert Einstein
To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. View quote
Laozi
The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil. View quote
Antisthenes
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, surrounded by assholes. View quote
Sigmund Freud
I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change. View quote
Jim Rohn
To love someone means to see him as God intended him. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving. View quote
Alain Delon
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Every person in our life appears exactly when we most need the lesson that he brings with him. View quote
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. View quote
Thomas Edison
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. View quote
Mark Twain