Claude Adrien Helvetius Famous Quotes
"There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity."
To limit the press is to insult a nation to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Genius is nothing but continued attention.
Claude Adrien Helvetius Quotations
Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit (Perhaps it will be pleasing sometime to have remembered these things, from The Aeneid)"
Virgil
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice."
Oprah Winfrey
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
Werner Karl Heisenberg
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Sir Winston Churchill
"A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation."
Donald Trump
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."
Henry Ford
"The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore."
W Somerset Maugham
"Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months."
Bill Tammeus