Does Quotes

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.