Quotations Set 35

1. The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen. - Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

2. If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. - Socrates (469?-399 B.C.)

3. Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

4. The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

5. Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)

6. The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse. - Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, writer (1613-1680)

7. Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. - Jesse Lee Bennett

8. Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone? - Thomas Wolfe, novelist (1900-1938)

9. All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. - Cathy Ladman, comedian, writer, actress (1955- )

10. We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

11. The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing. - Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author (1913-1983)

12. Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well. - Peter Ustinov, actor, writer and director (1921-2004)

13. It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts. - Bill Vaughan, journalist (1915-1977)

14. Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. - Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968)

15. If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language. - Andrew Cohen, professor of linguistics (1944- )

16. Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed. - Jan de Hartog, playwright and novelist (1914-2002)

17. There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another. - Emma Goldman, social activist (1869-1940)

18. Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. - Letitia E. Landon, author (1802-1838)

19. The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. - Rita Mae Brown, writer (1944- )

20. Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. - Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and novelist (1850-1893)

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