Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)
 

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. -William Tecumseh Sherman, Union General in the American Civil War (1820-1891)
 

Patience is also a form of action. -Auguste Rodin, sculptor (1840-1917)
 

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. –Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth US president (1858-1919)
 

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. -Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (1920- )
 

If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it. -Jerome Singer
 

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? -John Churton Collins, literary critic (1848-1908)
 

We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another. -Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)
 

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. -Henrik Ibsen, playwright (1828-1906)
 

It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to. -Walter Linn
 

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. -Pericles, statesman (430 BCE)
 

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)
 

The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. -J.S. Buckminster, clergyman and editor (1797-1812)
 

The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. -John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)
 

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -Harper Lee, writer (1926- )
 

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. -John Morley, statesman and writer (1838-1923)
 

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. -Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)
 

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)
 

Those who wish to sing always find a song. -Swedish proverb
 

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. -Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)
 

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. -John Donne, poet (1573-1631)
 

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. -George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
 

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. -M. Grundler
 

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
 

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)
 

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance. -Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826)
 

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
 

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. -Leo Buscaglia, author, speaker and professor (1924-1998)
 

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)
 

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and the fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. -Louis Dembitz Brandeis, lawyer, judge, and writer (1856-1941)
 

When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny. -Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826)
 

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure." - H.L.Mencken
 

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. -Thomas Wolfe, novelist (1900-1938)
 

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
 

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally reasonable to the American public. -Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1858-1919)
 

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. -James Baldwin, writer (1924-1987)
 

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. -Leo Buscaglia, author (1924-1998)
 

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
 

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. -Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (1859-1930)
 

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)
 

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. -Chuang-Tzu, philosopher (4th c. BCE)
 

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your successes. -Cullen Hightower, salesman and writer (1923- )
 

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. -Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)
 

People rarely win wars; governments rarely lose them. -Arundhati Roy, writer and activist (1961- )
 

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
 

It is always the secure who are humble. -G.K. Chesterton, essayist and novelist (1874-1936)
 

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. -Charles Darwin, naturalist and author (1809-1882)