Quotes from Literature and Various Media
“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.” ~Bertrand Russell
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment… Seeming to do is not doing.” ~Thomas Alva Edison
“You cannot run away from weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now and where you stand?” ~R. L. Stevenson
“History will be kind [to me], for I intend to write it.” ~Winston Churchill
“When one does not know what to say, it is a time to be silent.” ~The King, The King and I
“Experience is a hard teacher; she gives the test first and the lesson after.” ~Anonymous
“We laugh at honor and we are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” ~C. S. Lewis
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.” ~Mohanders Ghandi
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.” ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim/ wisdom the source of virtue and of fame/ obtained with labor for mankind employed/ and then when most you share it, best enjoyed.” ~Alfred North Whitehead
“There’s no such thing as a nonviolent revolution. Revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.” ~Malcom X
“You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought.” ~John Greenleaf Whittier
“Spaceships are shiny toys used by infant civilizations. The most powerful spaceship in the world is your mind.” ~Mrs. Whatsit, A Wrinkle in Time
“Hope is the thing with feathers/that perches in the soul/And sings the tune – without the words/and never stops at all.” ~Emily Dickinson, “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”
Feel free to suggest your own!
