Best Hume Quotes: The most famous quotes by Hume
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’. — Hume
Best Hubert Humphrey Quotes: The most famous quotes by Hubert Humphrey
The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously. — Hubert Humphrey
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. — Hubert Humphrey
Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth. — Hubert Humphrey
Never give up on anybody. — Hubert Humphrey
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left. — Hubert Humphrey
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. — Hubert Humphrey
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. — Hubert Humphrey
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. — Hubert Humphrey
The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It’s easy to take an extreme position. — Hubert Humphrey
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. — Hubert Humphrey
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you’ll find out that you’re a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that’s happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate. — Hubert Humphrey
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. — Hubert Humphrey
Best Robert A. Humphrey Quotes: The most famous quotes by Robert A. Humphrey
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. — Robert A. Humphrey
Best Margaret Wolfe Hungerford Quotes: The most famous quotes by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. — Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
Best E. Howard Hunt Quotes: The most famous quotes by E. Howard Hunt
No one is entitled to the truth. — E. Howard Hunt
Best H. L. Hunt Quotes: The most famous quotes by H. L. Hunt
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. — H. L. Hunt
Best Leigh Hunt Quotes: The most famous quotes by Leigh Hunt
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. — Leigh Hunt
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers. — Leigh Hunt
Best Catfish Hunter Quotes: The most famous quotes by Catfish Hunter
Winning isn’t everything. Wanting to is. — Catfish Hunter
The sun don’t shine on the same dog’s ass all the time. — Catfish Hunter
Best Kristin Hunter Quotes: The most famous quotes by Kristin Hunter
First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms. — Kristin Hunter
Best William C. Hunter Quotes: The most famous quotes by William C. Hunter
It’s too much to ask one to love his enemy. Let’s compromise on forgetting him. — William C. Hunter
Best Douglas Hurd Quotes: The most famous quotes by Douglas Hurd
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. — Douglas Hurd
Best Sol Hurok Quotes: The most famous quotes by Sol Hurok
Get pleasure out of life…as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure. — Sol Hurok
Best Fannie Hurst Quotes: The most famous quotes by Fannie Hurst
Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it. — Fannie Hurst
Best Zora Neale Hurston Quotes: The most famous quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. — Zora Neale Hurston
There is something about poverty that smells like death. — Zora Neale Hurston
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. — Zora Neale Hurston
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death. — Zora Neale Hurston
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it. — Zora Neale Hurston
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at de sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. — Zora Neale Hurston
Best John K. Hutchens Quotes: The most famous quotes by John K. Hutchens
I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched. — John K. Hutchens
Best Francis Hutcheson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Francis Hutcheson
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. — Francis Hutcheson
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness. — Francis Hutcheson
Best Robert Hutchins Quotes: The most famous quotes by Robert Hutchins
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it. — Robert Hutchins
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view. — Robert Hutchins
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches. — Robert Hutchins
It has been said that we have not had the three R’s in America, we had the six R’s remedial readin’, remedial ‘ritin’ and remedial ‘rithmetic. — Robert Hutchins
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. — Robert Hutchins
…The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die. — Robert Hutchins
The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues. — Robert Hutchins
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. — Robert Hutchins
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. — Robert Hutchins
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. — Robert Hutchins
Best Sir Robert Hutchinson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Sir Robert Hutchinson
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. — Sir Robert Hutchinson
Best Kevin R. Hutson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Kevin R. Hutson
Naturally intelligent people are like lumps of coal. Eventually, we turn into diamonds, And the people we once envied, turn into coal. — Kevin R. Hutson
Time is like a river. It flows one direction, But with a little force you can go back. But like a river, Everything you do has a ripple. — Kevin R. Hutson
Best William Hutton Quotes: The most famous quotes by William Hutton
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. — William Hutton
Best Aldous Huxley Quotes: The most famous quotes by Aldous Huxley
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. — Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to you it’s what you do with what happens to you. — Aldous Huxley
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. — Aldous Huxley
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. — Aldous Huxley
Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons – that’s philosophy. — Aldous Huxley
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. — Aldous Huxley
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. — Aldous Huxley
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. — Aldous Huxley
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea — Aldous Huxley
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough. — Aldous Huxley
Experience teaches only the teachable. — Aldous Huxley
My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger. — Aldous Huxley
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. — Aldous Huxley
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process. — Aldous Huxley
One of the great attractions of patriotism — it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. — Aldous Huxley
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. — Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him. — Aldous Huxley
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell. — Aldous Huxley
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface. — Aldous Huxley
Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing. — Aldous Huxley
There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. — Aldous Huxley
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. — Aldous Huxley
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 devided as fools and madmen. — Aldous Huxley
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil. — Aldous Huxley
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly. — Aldous Huxley
A man’s worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. — Aldous Huxley
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. — Aldous Huxley
When one’s ill or unhappy, one needs something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I think, when one has been knocked out of one’s balance . to have some external job or duty to hang on to. — Aldous Huxley
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. — Aldous Huxley
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. — Aldous Huxley
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. — Aldous Huxley
Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet’s irreplaceable capital. — Aldous Huxley
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. — Aldous Huxley
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. — Aldous Huxley
We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look. — Aldous Huxley
Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today. — Aldous Huxley
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. — Aldous Huxley
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. — Aldous Huxley
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. — Aldous Huxley
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. — Aldous Huxley
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities. — Aldous Huxley
Best Sir Julian Huxley Quotes: The most famous quotes by Sir Julian Huxley
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. — Sir Julian Huxley
Best Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes: The most famous quotes by Thomas Henry Huxley
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. — Thomas Henry Huxley
Best Thomas Huxley Quotes: The most famous quotes by Thomas Huxley
The great tragedy of science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. — Thomas Huxley
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything. — Thomas Huxley
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. — Thomas Huxley
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. — Thomas Huxley
The great end of life is not knowledge but action. — Thomas Huxley
Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. — Thomas Huxley
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. — Thomas Huxley
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. — Thomas Huxley
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense. — Thomas Huxley
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger. — Thomas Huxley
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. — Thomas Huxley
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. — Thomas Huxley
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward. — Thomas Huxley
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me. — Thomas Huxley
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. — Thomas Huxley
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe. — Thomas Huxley
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. — Thomas Huxley
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. — Thomas Huxley
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman’s cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club. — Thomas Huxley
The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone. — Thomas Huxley
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. — Thomas Huxley
Best bell hooks Quotes: The most famous quotes by bell hooks
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom… — bell hooks
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. — bell hooks
Best Elizabeth II Quotes: The most famous quotes by Elizabeth II
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. — Elizabeth II
The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. — Elizabeth II
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else-I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. — Elizabeth II
It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains. — Elizabeth II
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. — Elizabeth II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. — Elizabeth II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. (After she was pelted with eggs during a walkabout on New Zealand visit) — Elizabeth II
Best Harold Howe II Quotes: The most famous quotes by Harold Howe II
Teenagers go to college to be with their boyfriends and girlfriends they go because they can’t think of anything else to do they go because their parents want them to and sometimes because their parents don’t want them to they go to find themselves, or to find a husband, or to get away from home, and sometimes even to find out about the world in which they live. — Harold Howe II
Best James Waddell Alexander, II Quotes: The most famous quotes by James Waddell Alexander, II
The true recipe for a miserable existence is to quarrel with Providence. — James Waddell Alexander, II
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind. — James Waddell Alexander, II
Best Oscar Hammerstein, II Quotes: The most famous quotes by Oscar Hammerstein, II
Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me — Oscar Hammerstein, II
You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true (South Pacific) — Oscar Hammerstein, II
Best Pope John Paul II Quotes: The most famous quotes by Pope John Paul II
Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity. — Pope John Paul II
The truth is not always the same as the majority decision. — Pope John Paul II
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. — Pope John Paul II
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation. — Pope John Paul II
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. — Pope John Paul II
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. — Pope John Paul II
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