Henry Thomas Buckle Famous Quotes



"If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine."


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A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
Robert Collyer

"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain."
Adlai E Jr Stevenson

"Lefty A wise guy's always right even when he's wrong, he's right."
Donnie Brasco

"Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory."
Alan Alda

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
William Feather

"A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control."
Robert F Bennett

"In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them."
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

"Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities."
John A Rassias

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Barbara Mikkelson

"Montreal leads Atlanta by three, 5-1."
Jerry Coleman