quotes

“What's done to children, they will do to society.” Karl A. Menninger, psychiatrist (1893-1990)

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

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

“A single drop of rain makes the grass many shades greener.” Henry David Thoreau

“When I can look Life in the eyes, / Grown calm and very coldly wise, / Life will have given me the Truth, / And taken in exchange---my youth.”Sara Teasdale, poet (1884-1933)

“To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.” Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)

“Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.” Harry Anderson

“God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.” Langenhoven

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.” Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)

"It is almost a truism to say that words have the power to transform us and crystallize our vision of the world. I say almost because, though the statement may seem trite, it is unassailable. Every literate one of us has experienced its truth." Charles Harrington Elster, American writer and broadcaster, The New York Times, September 21, 2003

“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)

“Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.” Eric Hoffer

“The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. Max Eastman

“Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.” Jim Rohn

“Exercise your words. Try them out in new relationships.” William Sloane

“Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs.” Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn” John Cotton Dana

“Time wears away error and polishes truth.” Gaston Pierre Marc, Duc de Levis, writer (1764-1830)

“To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.” Marilyn French

“Grasp the subject, the words will follow.” Cato the Elder, statesman, soldier, and writer (234-149 BCE)

“The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.” Edwin Schlossberg, designer