Philip G Hamerton Famous Quotes
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author
Philip G Hamerton Quotations
"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance."
Confucius
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
Alvin Toffler
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
Edward H Harriman
"You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. The view from Mir put everything in perspective."
Shannon Lucid
"Purchase not friends by gifts when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love."
Thomas Fuller
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts."
Thomas Carlyle
"First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
Martin Niemller
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi
"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe."
Dan Quayle