Inspirational Quotes - Page 380

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.

Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed.

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

I broke my heart for every gain, to taste the sweet I faced the pain.

Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.