Sir Francis Bacon Quotes

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Was one of the leading figures in natural philosophy and in the field of scientific methodology in the period of transition from the Renaissance to the early modern era. As a lawyer, member of Parliament, and Queen's Counsel, Bacon wrote on questions of law, state and religion, as well as on contemporary politics; but he also published texts in which he speculated on possible conceptions of society, and he pondered questions of ethics (Essays) even in his works on natural philosophy (The Advancement of Learning).

Knowledge is power.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

For also knowledge itself is power.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American Transcendentalist poet, philosopher, lecturer, and essayist wrote Nature (1836). He became one of America's best known and best loved 19th century figures.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

What you are comes to you.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

We are wiser than we know.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Buddha Quotes

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John F. Kennedy Quotes

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th president of the United States (1961-1963), the youngest person ever to be elected president. He was also the first Roman Catholic president and the first president to be born in the 20th century.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

One person can make a difference and every person should try.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

Mother Teresa Quotes

Mother Teresa (1910-1997) - The Nobel Peace Prize 1979 , Whose original name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was born on August 26, 1910 in what is now Skopje, Macedonia. She devoted her life to helping the sick and the poor.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

I never will understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.

A rare and unique individual who lived long for higher purposes. Her life-long devotion to the care of the poor, the sick and the disadvantaged was one of the highest examples of service to humanity.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Oscar Wilde Quotes

Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900). Irish poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere's Fan(1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Among Wilde's other best-known works are his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray(1891) and his fairy tales especially "The Happy Prince.".

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.

Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), He was one of the most extraordinary human beings the world has ever known. Born into the family of a Boston candle maker, Benjamin Franklin became the most famous American of his time. He helped found a new nation and defined the American character. Writer, inventor, diplomat, businessman, musician, scientist, humorist, civic leader, international celebrity . . . genius.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

God helps those who help themselves.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

When in doubt, don't.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Mark Twain Quotes

Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain (1835 - 1910). Twain is considered the greatest humorist of 19th Century American literature. His novels and stories about the Mississippi River: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1894) are still popular with modern readers.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....

When in doubt, tell the truth.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that,

but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Winston Churchill Quotes

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953. Soldier, politician and finally prime minister, Winston Churchill was one of Britain's greatest 20th-century heroes. He is particularly remembered for his indomitable spirit while leading Great Britain to victory in World War II.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

A joke is a very serious thing.

It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

George Bernard Shaw Quotes

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) - The Nobel Prize in Literature 1925, Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. Shaw was a freethinker, defender of women's rights, and advocate of equality of income. Shaw accepted the honour but refused the money.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

My reputation grows with every failure.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921. The German-American physicist Albert Einstein contributed more than any other scientist to the 20th-century vision of physical reality. In the wake of World War I, Einstein's theories--especially his theory of relativity--seemed to many people to point to a pure quality of human thought, one far removed from the war and its aftermath. Seldom has a scientist received such public attention for having cultivated the fruit of pure learning.;

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Vision

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

~ Charles R. Swindoll (American Writer and Clergyman, b.1934)

Vision

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

~ Henri Matisse ( French Painter and Artist of the 20th century, 1869-1954)

Vision

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.

~ Anonymous

Vision

Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference.

~ Joel Barker

Judgement

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.

~ Ian Percy

Judgement

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

~ Anonymous

Judgement

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

~ Dorothy Day (American reformer, Journalist and Founder of the Catholic Worker. 1897-1980)

Judgement

Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives.

~ Anonymous

Judgement

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

~ Voltaire (French Philosopher and Writer. 1694-1778)

People

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

~ Albert Einstein ( Physicist . Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

Poeple

People living deeply have no fear of death.

~ Anais Nin (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903-1977)

People

Most of us are about as happy as we make up their minds to be.

~ Abraham Lincoln (American 16th US President (1861-65). 1809-1865)

Poeple

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

~ John Harrigan

People

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

~ George Bernard Shaw (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)