Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [441-460] of 653 Wisdom quotesWisdom QuotesWisdom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this.~ Toni Morrison Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare.~ Lance Morrow Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.~ Ogden Nash A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt about a tragedy. He said, “I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one.” The grandson asked him, “Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?” The grandfather answered, “The one I feed.”~ Native American Story If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.~ Sir Isaac Newton I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.~ Issac Newton Your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these are the things that count in life.~ Scott O'Grady Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.~ George Orwell I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies another this right makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.~ Thomas Paine An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates his duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.~ Thomas Paine Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.~ Thomas Paine The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.~ General George S. Patton, Jr. To know the world one must construct it.~ Cesare Pavese Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.~ J. H. Payne A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it.~ William Penn Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.~ Pericles If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.~ Tom Peters Do not expect justice where might is right.~ Plato The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.~ Plato Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print