10/31/19

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. -Charles de Gaulle

10/30/19

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. -Willa Cather

10/29/19

Although a democracy must often fight with one hand tied behind its back, it nonetheless has the upper hand. -Aharon Barak

10/28/19

I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oilcan: that is my ideal in life. -Baba Amte

10/25/19

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -Fred Astaire

10/24/19

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions. -Jim Butcher

10/23/19

I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized. -Davy Crockett

10/22/19

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. -Benjamin Disraeli

10/21/19

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -T.S. Eliot

10/18/19

If I had four hours to chop down a tree I would spend three hours sharpening the axe. -Benjamin Franklin

10/17/19

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best -- and therefore never scrutinize or question. -Stephen Jay Gould

10/16/19

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. -Aldous Huxley

10/15/19

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of. -Kazuo Ishiguro

10/14/19

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument. -Joseph Joubert

10/11/19

I smile because there are tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth, and every time I breathe they float and every time I laugh they fly kites. -Shane Koyczan

10/10/19

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. -John Locke

10/09/19

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself, that is the first duty of the educator. -Maria Montessori

10/08/19

It’s funny how we try so hard to hide from the truth. We tell ourselves that it didn’t happen. We say it enough times that we start to believe it. We live in a lie that exists only for ourselves. But the Truth is still there—dangling above us, hanging on a very weary thread. Out of sight. Out of mind. Until the thread of our self-denial breaks, and the Truth comes crashing back down. -Preston Norton

10/07/19

The best way to know the soul of another country is to read its literature. -Amos Oz

10/04/19

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. -Ezra Pound

10/03/19

You have to live each hour as if it's your last and each day as if you were immortal. -Julia Quinn

10/02/19

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. -Bertrand Russell

10/01/19

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. -William Styron