Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [181-200] of 653 Wisdom quotesWisdom QuotesWisdom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.~ Frederick Douglass The most may err as grossly as the few.~ John Dryden Of all the tyrannies on human kind / the worst is that which persecutes the mind.~ John Dryden Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.~ Alexandre Dumas The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.~ Friedrich Durrenmatt O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.~ Sir Edward Dyer Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.~ Thomas A. Edison Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.~ Albert Einstein Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.~ Albert Einstein A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.~ Albert Einstein How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.~ Albert Einstein As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.~ Albert Einstein So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Blessed is the person who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.~ George Eliot Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?~ T. S. Eliot Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson People only see what they are prepared to see.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print