Hidni Quotes

Fashion fades,

only style remains the same.

I was in high school when

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

Information is not knowledge.

I find television very educating.

Every time somebody turns on the set,

I go into the other room and read a book.

When the white man governs himself,

that is self government;

but when he governs himself and also governs another man,

that is more than self

government

that is despotism.

Until you’re ready to look foolish,

you’ll never have the possibility of being great.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Whether it be true or not,

I can say, for one, that I have no other

so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow

men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

How far I shall succeed in gratifying

this ambition is yet to be developed.

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of

a palace has an animal nature,

rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

You're on your own,

and you know what you know.

And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

The black press, some liberal sportswriters,

and even a few politicians were banging away

at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball.

I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

Science is a wonderful thing

if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous.

The other day she looked at my calendar

and wanted to know who May was.

I just wish I could understand my father.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man

for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of,

and scoffer at, religion.

I don’t need the world to believe in me;

I believe in myself.

From a child,

I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music,

painting, flowers, and the sciences,

Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

We must get rid of fossil fuels

by developing injection systems for automobiles,

which can run on bio fuel.

With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls.

Success is not a good teacher,

failure makes you humble.

Whoever is careless with

the truth in small matters

cannot be trusted with

important matters.