Quotations Set 21

1. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. - Franklin P. Jones, businessman (1887-1929)

2. The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured. - Agnes Repplier, American essayist (1858-1950)

3. Scratch a pessimist, and you find often a defender of privilege. - Lord Beveridge, British economist (1879-1963)

4. If power corrupts, being out of power corrupts absolutely. - Douglass Cater, American author and educator

5. It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. - Errol Flynn, American actor (1909-1959)

6. We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is disappearing. - R.D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (1927-1989)

7. It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything. - Joyce Cary, English author (1888-1957)

8. How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true. - Logan Pearsall Smith, Anglo-American essayist (1865-1946)

9. I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children. And tell them, look, no matter what, you must have hope. You must. When I invoke Camus, who said when there is no hope, you must invent hope. . .hope is something that is not what God gives us. It's like peace. It's a gift that one can give to one another. Only another person can push me to despair. And only another person can push me to hope. It’s my choice. - Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize-winner and Holocaust Survivor

10. The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. - Brooks Atkinson, American drama critic (1894-1984)

11. If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military. - President Truman (1884-1972)

12. A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He knew th' facts iv th' case. - Finley Peter Dunne, American humorist (1867-1936)

13. No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. - John Donne, poet (1573-1631)

14. A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. - Charles Evans Hughes, jurist (1862-1948)

15. Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?" - Bertrand Russell, English philosopher and mathematician (1872-1970)

16. If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave. - Cato, Roman statesman and historian (234 B.C.-149 B.C.)

17. The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other. - Marya Mannes, American author-journalist (1904-1990)

18. It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. - James Thurber, American humorist (1894-1961)

19. May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)

20. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. - Rachel Carson, American biologist (1907-1964)

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