valentine's week Quotes

I’m not a person who likes to be judged.

In every society some,

men are born to rule,

and some to advise.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves;

and under the rule of a just God,

cannot long retain it.

We are cups,

constantly and quietly being filled.

The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over

and let the beautiful stuff out.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture.

Just get people to stop reading them.

It is hard to fail,

but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Work hard in silence,

let your success make the noise.

You have to have a sense of humor about yourself.

Time reveals what is hidden,

and prophecy guides the mind to reflection.

Success is the best revenge.

Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally,

it comes from what you do consistently.

Between two evils,

I always pick the one I never tried before.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster

when we have lost our way.

In the Spring,

I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

There are only two mistakes

one can make along the road

to truth; not going all

the way, and not starting.

Concern for man and his fate must always form

the chief interest of all technical endeavors.

Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual,

and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern

with no superhuman authority behind it.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.