Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [341-360] of 653 Wisdom quotesWisdom QuotesWisdom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Engineering is thus a combination of brains and material -- the more brains the less material.~ Charles F. Kettering My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.~ Charles F. Kettering Words that enlighten are more precious than jewels.~ Hazrat Inayat Khan Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.~ Omar Khayyam The moving finger writes; and having writ moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.~ Omar Khayyam It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived-forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.~ Soren Kierkegaard People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.~ Soren Kierkegaard Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.~ Soren Kierkegaard The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. All I kin say is when you finds yo'self wanderin' in a peach orchard, ya don't go lookin' for rutabagas.~ Kingfish The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.~ Russell Kirk There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.~ Russell Kirk I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.~ Rabbi Harold Kushner Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.~ Louis Lamour Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.~ Rose Wilder Lane Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.~ Lao-Tzu A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.~ Lao-Tzu To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.~ Lao-Tzu The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.~ Lao-Tzu Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print