Jean Paul Friedrich Richter Famous Quotes
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
"The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us."
"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it."
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."
A scholar knows no boredom.
"Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest."
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.
"In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army."
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter Quotations
"If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary."
Ayn Rand
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
Mark Twain
Sometimes the biggest risk you can take is not taking a risk.
Unknown
People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
Charles Franklin Kettering
A year from now you may wish you had started today.
Karen Lamb
You know what's interesting about Washington It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
George W Bush
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
Seneca
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
James Randi
What is the hardest thing in the world To think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."
Confucius