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"Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe."
Nachman of Bratslav
"Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Neil Armstrong
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, whose shade you do not expect to sit."
Nelson Henderson
"Rhis is to be asserted in general of men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed, are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children...when the need is far distant; but when it approaches, they will turn against you."
Nicolo Machiavelli
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes."
Oprah Winfrey
"You know what the fellow said: In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love--they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock."
Orson Welles
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself."
Oscar Wilde
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
Oscar Wilde
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
Oscar Wilde
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Oscar Wilde
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
Oscar Wilde
"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."
Oscar Wilde
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
Oscar Wilde
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