Famous Quotes

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Hob Broun:

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects:

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

Sigmond Freud:

One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Albert Einstein, Letter, 24 March 1954. Quoted in "Albert Einstein: The Human Side," edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman:

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

George S. Patton:

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Unknown:

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

John Kenneth Galbraith:

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

David Viscott:

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

Titus Livius:

I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them.

Naguib Mahfouz:

Happy is he who can give himself up.

Marcel Marceau:

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel:

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999:

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

Cher:

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.