Quotaria

"One lives in the hope
of becoming a memory."
- Antonio Porchia

Leadership is a quality of those who
earn the respect of others through the
wisdom of the combination of their words
and their actions.
~ Walter Grant IV

Knowledge of the world is only to be acquired
in the world, and not in a closet.
- Lord Chesterfield

"An adventure is only an inconvenience
rightly considered. An inconvenience
is an adventure wrongly considered."
- G. K. Chesterton

"The best way to keep one's
word is not to give it."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"We lie loudest when
we lie to ourselves."
- Eric Hoffer

Quotes

Let him that would move the
world first move himself.
- Socrates

No man really becomes a fool
until he stops asking questions.
- Charles Steinmetz

Originality does not consist in saying what
no one has ever said before, but in saying
exactly what you think yourself.
- James Stephen

We are all travelers in the wilderness
of this world, and the best we can find
in our travels is an honest friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

"We are more ready to try the untried when what
we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that
many inventions had their birth as toys."
- Eric Hoffer

"If all else fails, immortality can always
be assured by spectacular error."
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Quotaria

"Defining and analyzing humor is
a pastime of humorless people."
- Robert Benchley

"In times like these, it helps to recall that
there have always been times like these."
- Paul Harvey

When the highest type of men hear Tao,
They diligently practice it.
When the average type of men hear Tao,
They half believe in it.
When the lowest type of men hear Tao,
They laugh heartily at it.
Without the laugh, there is no Tao.
- Lao-Tzu

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to
write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration,
such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their
sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates

"Everybody likes a kidder,
but nobody lends him money."
- Arthur Miller

"The opposite of the religious fanatic
is not the fanatical atheist but the
gentle cynic who cares not whether
there is a god or not."
- Eric Hoffer

Quotaria

"I don't feel old. I don't feel
anything till noon. That's when
it's time for my nap."
- Bob Hope

"I would never die for my beliefs
because I might be wrong."
- Bertrand Russell

"Absolute faith corrupts as
absolutely as absolute power."
- Eric Hoffer

"How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the
evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly
the mind consents to reality."
- Norman Douglas

"Just because your voice reaches halfway around
the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when
it reached only to the end of the bar."
- Edward R. Murrow

"This is the sixth book I've
written, which isn't bad for
a guy who's only read two."
- George Burns

Quotaria

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly
perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings?
Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
- Paul Gauguin

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are
dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
- James Russell Lowell

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because
out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
- Leon Trotsky

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy
of being called an idea at all.
- Don Marquis

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of
a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
- Eric Hoffer

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay
waste the sky as well as the earth!
- Henry David Thoreau

Quotes

"When people are free to do
as they please, they usually
imitate each other."
- Eric Hoffer

"From the moment I picked up your book until
I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter.
Some day I intend reading it."
- Groucho Marx

"Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for
telling the truth about other people."
- Philip Guedalla

"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul
into believing in government and business."
- Tom Robbins

"The Army has carried the American ... ideal
to its logical conclusion. Not only do they
prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race,
creed and color, but also on ability."
- Tom Lehrer

"I'm dating a woman now who,
evidently, is unaware of it."
- Garry Shandling