wise sayings (most apply to republcians)
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
All movements go too far.
Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. (republicans perhaps?)
Half of the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. J.C.&A.W.Hare
Those who fail to plan plan to fail.
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun...Katherine Hepburn
He loves not who does not show his love...Shakespeare
The road to success is always under construction.
The wishbone will never replace the backbone.
It's easier to swallow words to begin with than to eat them later.
If you lament what you did not do, you will soon lament what you did not do today.
Don't try to make up for the past. Make the present work.
What you think is transient. How you think is permanent.
Sin is the pain you cause around you when you do something morally, ethically or spiritually wrong.
Of all forms of caution caution in love is perhaps the most fatal.
What, then, is your duty? What the day demands....Goethe
All rising to a great place is by a winding stair...Francis Bacon
Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, but appropriate actions in an imperfect one...R.H. Blyth
As the tide rises sound of the boat lines creaking. James Behrens
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Those who say it cannot be done should get out of the way of those who are doing it.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E.M. Forster
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs and motives. Thomas Mann
You can't direct the wind but you can adjust the sails. Anonymous
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited-Plutarch
If what you're doing isn't working, try something else! NLP adage
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter his house of wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. Kahlil Gibran
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Cicer
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