Hidni Quotes

I long to accomplish a great and noble task,

but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if

they were great and noble.

Often it does seem such a pity

that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Everything has its limit

iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

To invent,

you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

They say President Wilson has blundered.

Perhaps he has,

but I notice he usually blunders forward.

I believe in living life on the edge.

Never give up,

for that is just

the place and time

that the tide will turn.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone,

somewhere, may be happy.

The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.

Think of how stupid the average person is,

and realize half of them are stupider than that.

Before I would hurt a child,

I would slit my wrists.

I’m not a fan of the status quo.

Sometimes simple things are the most extraordinary.

Nothing stinks like the denial of your own feelings.

The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives

and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

I never went to school more than six months in my life,

but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections,

I remember how,

when a mere child,

I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me

in a way I could not understand.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service,

than the neglect of discipline;

for that discipline,

more than numbers,

gives one army,

the superiority over another.

The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us,

but those who win battles we know nothing about.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Science is more than a body of knowledge;

it is a way of thinking,

a way of skeptically interrogating the universe.