Quotations Set 27

1. Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-92)

2. Lower your voice and strengthen your argument. - Lebanese proverb

3. Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. - Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850)

4. The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. - Madame De Stael, writer (1766-1817)

5. To know another language is to have a second soul. - Charlemagne, King of the Franks (742-814)

6. Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. - Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)

7. A timid question will always receive a confident answer. - Henry Lytton Bulwer, diplomat and author (1801-1872)

8. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. - John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704)

9. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)

10. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. - Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (1811-1896)

11. No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry Brooks Adams, historian (1838-1918)

12. Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

13. The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. - Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

14. To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. - Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797)

15. A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. - John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873)

16. A library is thought in cold storage. - Herbert Samuel, politician and diplomat (1870-1963)

17. The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but in love. - Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)

18. The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. - Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)

19. In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. - John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873)

20. They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. - Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797)

21. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. - Harper Lee, writer (1926- )

22. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. - Dave Barry, author and columnist (1947- )

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