quotes

"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself 10 years ago." Horace Mann (1796-1859) American educator

"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition." Samuel Johnson

"Anger and hatred are our real enemies. They are the forces we most need to confront and defeat, not the temporary “enemies” who appear intermittently throughout our life." Tnzin Gyatso, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, The Compassionate Life

"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do." Walt Disney

"A half truth is a whole lie." Yiddish proverb

"What the mind does not know, the eyes do not see." Indian proverb

"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions." Peter Drucker

“The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.” H. W. Arnold

"The penalty for not participating in government is to be governed by your inferiors." Plato

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” Mark Twain

"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community." Albert Einstein

“Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.” Philip Dormer Stanhope, statesman and writer (1694-1773)

“I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.” Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, and author (1872-1970)

"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult."E.B. White

“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.” Keith Haring

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." Walt Disney

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." Albert Einstein

“One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.” William Feather, author, editor and publisher (1889-1981)

"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams." Mary Ellen Kelly

"Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away." William L. Sullivan

"No one from the beginning of time has had security." Eleanor Roosevelt

"Anything on earth you want to do is play. Anything on earth you have to do is work. Play will never kill you, work will. I never worked a day in my life." Dr. Leila Denmark, age: 100