December 21, 2008

Quotes 12/21/08

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
David Hume

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots.
Einstein

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds...
Lincoln

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.
Langston Coleman

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Norman Douglas

Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.
John Fletcher

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