"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on youth
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"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

Hugo, Victor on ideas
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"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."

Beecher, Henry Ward on sacrifice
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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on men
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"One doesn’t discover new lands without losing sight of the shore."

Gide, Andre on exploration quotes   

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fights and fighting
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"Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains."

Proverb on fights and fighting
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"You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on fights and fighting
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"I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."

Aristotle on philosophy   

"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."

Newton, Isaac on physics   

"As to diseases make a habit of two things – to help, or at least, to do no harm."

Hippocrates on medicine quote   

"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back."

The Buddha on meditation   

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."

Sun Tzu on military strategy quote   

"If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics."

Bacon, Roger on mathematics quote   

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

Confucius on wise words quote
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"Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God."

Cicero on religious philosophy   

"A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him."

Bonaparte, Napolean on nationalism   

"A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king."

Herodotus on   

"If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both."

Native American saying on   

"You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot."

Syrus, Publilius on   

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

Franklin, Benjamin on liberalism
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"It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls."

Aristophanes on military strategy   

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

Wilde, Oscar on mass media   

"Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe."

Einstein, Albert on economics   

"You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word."

Capone, Al on guns   

"Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child which carries the heavy burden of genetic disease."

Edwards, Bob on genetics   

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on flight in sky   

"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One…I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds."

Oppenheimer, J.Robert, quoting the Bhagawad Gita on nuclear weapons   

"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."

Asimov, Isaac on science   

"All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts."

Shakespeare, William on drama and theatre   

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."

Native American saying on environment
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"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance."

Ali Ibn Abi-Talib on education
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"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."

Edison, Thomas Alva on electricity   

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

De Saint-Exupery, Antoine on engineering quotes   

"The great masses of the people…will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."

Hitler, Adolf on fascism and nazism   

"I will to my lord be true and faithful, and love all which he loves and shun all which he shuns."

Anglo-Saxon Oath of Fealty on feudalism   

"Chemistry means the difference between poverty and starvation and the abundant life."

Brent, Robert on chemistry quotes   

"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world."

The Buddha on words quotes   

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."

Camara, Dom Helder on communism quotes   

"For everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven."

Ecclesiastes on time