Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.[Albert Einstein] Quote:The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:Wit is educated insolence.[Aristotle] Quote:When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.[Buckminster Fuller] Quote:If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.[Homer Simpson] Quote:Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.[GK Chesterton] Quote:...adults are just obsolete children, and the hell with them.[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:There are no seeing eye cats, of course, because the sole function of cats, in the Great Chain of Life, is to cause harm to human beings.[Dave Barry] Quote:The reason gas stations sell food, of course, is that the supermarkets are busy cashing checks. The supermarkets have to cash checks because the banks are busy mailing unsolicited credit cards to everybody in the Western Hemisphere. The result is that very few people fix cars.[Dave Barry] Quote:Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.[Colin Powell] Quote:Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.[Colin Powell] Quote:If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.[Thomas Edison] Quote:There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.[Thomas Edison] Quote:When the solution is simple, God is answering.[Albert Einstein] Quote:To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.[Robert Zend] Quote:Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman.[Woody Allen] Quote:Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.[Sydney Harris] Quote:Calm, lasting beauty comes only in a dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence.[H.P. Lovecraft] Quote:Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:What we humans are is really a remarkable thing. How can you doubt that we will survive and mature? There may be a lot of wisdom in the old statement about looking on the world lovingly. If we can, perhaps the world will have time to resolve itself.[Gene Roddenberry] Quote:Why, you can take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.[Adam Smith] Quote:It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid-gold baby? Maybe we'll never know.[Jack Handey] Quote:We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true?I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents.It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience's time - more than four days - which should be a hanging offense.[Jenkin Lloyd Jones] Quote:The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus? We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. Tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 3:22. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that? "Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever." A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. [Lisa Alther] Quote:Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society... [Herbert Hoover] Quote:The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. [Henry J. Tillman] Quote:If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. [Isaac Asimov] Quote:A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. [Ayn Rand] Quote:Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. [Euripides] Quote:No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. [Cyril Connolly] Quote:Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything. [John W. Gardner] Definitions of: solDefinition: The sun.Definition: Gold; -- so called from its brilliancy, color, and value. Definition: A sou. Definition: A silver and gold coin of Peru. The silver sol is the unit of value, and is worth about 68 cents. |
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