Chartacter Quotes

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Inspiration exists,

but it has to find you working.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing,

I always tell myself,

'You can do better than this.'

You shall know the truth,

and the truth shall make you mad.

You have to grow from

the inside out.

None can teach you,

none can make you spiritual

There is no other teacher

but your own soul.

The most important thing in business is honesty,

integrity,

hard work,

and respect.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks,

but in how it thinks.

The good thing about science is that it’s true

whether or not you believe in it.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think

you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Standing as I do,

with my hand upon this staff,

and under the folds of the American flag,

I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

Human beings, regrettably,

are inherently unequal.

We are born believing.

A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Act as if what you do makes a difference.

It does.

I do the very best I know how

the very best I can;

and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

There is a blessed necessity by

which the interest of men is always driving them to the right;

and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man,

with an ability to grasp the infinite,

to exist only for a day!

No,

no,

man was made for immortality.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is

the influence of good women.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation,

and, on the other, to morals.

The game of thought is,

on the appearance of one of these two sides,

to find the other: given the upper,

to find the under side.

Study nature,

love nature,

stay close to nature.

It will never fail you.