I F Stone Famous Quotes
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them."
"Those who set out nobly to be their brother's keeper sometimes end up by becoming his jailer. Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie."
"If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had."
I F Stone Quotations
"Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else."
Abraham J Herschel
"If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup."
Turkish Proverb
"The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays)"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."
Henry Adams
"The fewer the words, the better the prayer."
Martin Luther
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
Albert Einstein
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Denis Watley
"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes."
H Ross Perot
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. (A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.)
Nicolas Boileau