" The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities…It is best to win without fighting. "

Sun-tzu Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC)

" The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" …it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. "

Woodrow Wilson 28th president of US (1856 – 1924)

" Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. "

Niels Bohr Danish physicist (1885 – 1962)

" The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards "

Alexander Jablokov “The Place of No Shadows”

" Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us "

Robert Burns, To A Louse Scottish national poet (1759 – 1796)

" In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might. "

Alfred A. Montapert

" The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind. "

Chinese proverb

" Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. "

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952 German Jewish diarist (1929 – 1945)

" A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. "

Unknown Quotations by unknown authors

" The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. "

William Hazlitt English essayist (1778 – 1830)

" Men generally believe what they wish. "

Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

" You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. "

James Baldwin US author (1924 – 1987)

" The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn. "

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Chapter 1

" Biography lends to death a new terror. "

Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

" Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. "

Buddha Indian philosopher & religious leader (563 BC – 483 BC)

" When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. "

Elayne Boosler

" Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil. "

Chinese Proverb

" He listens well who takes notes. "

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy Italian national epic poet (1265 – 1321)

" It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts. "

Sidney Madwed

" To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. "

Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)

" Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard. "

Nicolas Martin, Article c. 1995

" the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives. "

Albert Schweitzer French philosopher & physician (1875 – 1965)

" Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth. "

Edgar Watson Howe US journalist (1853 – 1937)

" To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. "

Sallust, The War with Catiline Roman historian & politician (86 BC – 34 BC)

" Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings. "

George Tooker

" His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it. "

Paterculus

" Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place "

Carl Jung Swiss psychologist (1875 – 1961)

" The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

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