Quotes and Wisdom

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1. 'To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.' Theodore Roosevelt Joseph Stalin Winston Churchill Franklin D. Roosevelt

2. 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.' J. Edgar Hoover Calvin Coolidge Franklin D. Roosevelt John F. Kennedy

3. 'Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.' Buddha Voltaire Socrates Confucius

4. 'You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.' George Washington Abraham Lincoln Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin

5. 'You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.' William Vanderbilt J.P. Morgan J.D. Rockefeller Henry Ford

6. 'I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.' Galileo Martin Luther Isaac Newton Copernicus

7. 'A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.' Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Robert Frost Henry David Thoreau Edgar Allen Poe

8. 'I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.' Chuck Yeagar John Glenn Alan Shepard Buzz Aldrin

9. 'You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.' John Lennon Malcolm X Medgar Evers Robert E. Lee

10. 'Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration.' Gandhi Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Edison Sigmund Freud

11. 'The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.' Vladimir Lenin Napoleon Mussolini Adolf Hitler

12. 'Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.' Alexander Hamilton Patrick Henry Aaron Burr Paul Revere

13. 'There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.' Boris Karloff Stephen King Alfred Hitchcock Orson Welles

14. 'Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.' Benjamin Franklin Francis Scott Key Thomas Paine Thomas Jefferson

15. 'Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.' J. Edgar Hoover Richard Nixon James Baker Henry Kissinger

16. 'A picture is worth a thousand words.' Voltaire Michaelangelo Napoleon Leonardo de Vinci

17. 'One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.' Julius Caesar Aristotle Plato Alexander the Great

18. 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' Woodrow Wilson Theodore Roosevelt Abraham Lincoln Franklin D. Roosevelt

19. 'If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.' Ansel Adams Carl Sagan Darwin Dalai Lama

20. 'If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.' Ernest Hemingway L. Ron Hubbard Ralph Waldo Emerson Mark Twain

21. 'Half this game is 90 percent mental.' John Wooden Babe Ruth Michael Jordan Yogi Berra

22. 'It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.' John Glenn Sally Ride Alan Shepard Neil Armstrong

23. 'The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.' Herman Melville Charles Dickens Oscar Wilde Walt Disney

24. 'The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.' Sir Francis Bacon Thomas Edison Albert Einstein Socrates

25. 'This above all to thine own self be true.' William Shakespeare St. Peter Chaucer John Calvin