Quotes October 18, 2018

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.
John Kenneth Galbraith,
economist
 
 
 
 
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
Zora Neale Hurston,
author and anthropologist
 
 
 
 
When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means the sun is about to set.
Lin Yutang,
writer
 
 
 
 
Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke,
poet
 
 
 
 
Temperate, sincere and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
James Rush,
writer
 
 
 
 
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Salman Rushdie,
writer
 
 
 
 
One must love humanity in order to penetrate into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.
Georg Buchner,
writer
 
 
 
 
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Zig Ziglar,
writer and motivational speaker
 
 
 
 
In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power.
Muriel Rukeyser,
poet
 
 
 
 
A man who knows how little he knows is well; a man who knows how much he knows is sick.
Laotzu,
philosopher
 
 
 
 
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
essayist, poet and philosopher
 
 
 
 
This dramatic and turbulent world makes a mockery of our plans and predictions.
Margaret Wheatley,
management consultant
 
 
 
 
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
Benjamin Rush,
physician and Founding Father
 
 
 
 
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes,
mathematician and philosopher
 
 
 
 
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
Isaac Asimov,
writer and professor
 
 
 
 
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing — refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
Leo Tolstoy,
writer