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Francis Bacon: It is a...

Francis Bacon: It is a...

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a...

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Francis Bacon: Cunning is a...

Francis Bacon: Cunning is a...

Cunning is a sinister or crooked wisdom.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Francis Bacon: That things are...

Francis Bacon: That things are...

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is...

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Andrea Dworkin: Genocide begins, however...

Andrea Dworkin: Genocide begins, however...

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction...

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Aristotle: Moral excellence comes...

Aristotle: Moral excellence comes...

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate...

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Aristotle: Educated men are...

Aristotle: Educated men are...

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

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Aristotle: Praise invariably implies...

Aristotle: Praise invariably implies...

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Francis Bacon: Antiquities are history...

Francis Bacon: Antiquities are history...

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of...

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Francis Bacon: There is a...

Francis Bacon: There is a...

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that...

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Saint Augustine: Hell was made...

Saint Augustine: Hell was made...

Hell was made for the inquisitive.

Source: Confessions
-- Saint Augustine, (Nov...

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Saint Augustine: What does love...

Saint Augustine: What does love...

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has...

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Martin Luther King, Jr: A riot is...

Martin Luther King, Jr: A riot is...

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Source: On blacks in America; address at...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The martyr cannot...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The martyr cannot...

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious...

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Aristotle: Law means good...

Aristotle: Law means good...

Law means good order.

Source: Politics.
-- Aristotle, ( 384BC-322BC), Greek...

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Aristotle: Happiness depends upon...

Aristotle: Happiness depends upon...

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Aristotle: The two qualities...

Aristotle: The two qualities...

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only...

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William James: Genius is the...

William James: Genius is the...

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

Source:...

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Francis Bacon: If a man...

Francis Bacon: If a man...

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shews he is a citizen of the world.

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Francis Bacon: Age appears best...

Francis Bacon: Age appears best...

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to...

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Francis Bacon: Life, an age...

Francis Bacon: Life, an age...

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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