There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. Shakespeare It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. W. R. Inge Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. Karl Marx German economist & Communist political philosopher (1818 - 1883) You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 - 1965) Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC) Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. Euripides Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799) Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) |