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.' Joseph Stalin Theodore Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt Winston Churchill

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.' Confucius Socrates Buddha Voltaire

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.' Benjamin Franklin George Washington Abraham Lincoln Thomas Jefferson

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

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.' Isaac Newton Galileo Martin Luther Copernicus

7. 'A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.' Robert Frost Henry David Thoreau Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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 Buzz Aldrin Alan Shepard John Glenn

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

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

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

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

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.' Francis Scott Key Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine

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

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

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.' Franklin D. Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson Theodore Roosevelt Abraham Lincoln

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.' Babe Ruth John Wooden Yogi Berra Michael Jordan

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.' Neil Armstrong Alan Shepard John Glenn Sally Ride

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

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

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