“I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.”
Terry Goodkind book Soul of the Fire
Source: Soul of the Fire
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“A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.”
Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer
Source: Dragon Blood
“To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
Source: Ford News, March 1926
“People can cry much easier than they can change.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
“Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Letter to Henry Cromwell (19 October 1709).
Source: Letters of the Late Alexander Pope, Esq. to a Lady. Never Before Published
“Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
“A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.”
Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
“One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.”
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) American writer
Source: In the Mecca
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Reportedly in: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Mistrust, Conspiracy, and Lack of Internet Ethics (1980) Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-second Congress. p. 32
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“All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
"Physics and Reality" in the Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 221, Issue 3 (March 1936)
Variant translation: "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." As it appears in the "Physics and Reality" section of the book "Out of My Later Years" by Albert Einstein (1950)
1930s
“There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.”
Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher
“Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.”
Steve Biko (1946–1977) anti-apartheid activist in South Africa
Quoted in Scott MacLeod, "South Africa: Extremes in Black and Whites" http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975037,00.html, Time, March 9, 1992, p. 38 <br class="br">Quoted in "The Mind of Black Africa" (1996) by Dickson A. Mungazi, p. 159
“It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.”
Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin
Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin
“What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
“Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.”
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society
“History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.”
Holbrook Jackson (1874–1948) British journalist
“Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
“Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.”
Richard Branson (1950) English business magnate, investor and philanthropist
Source: Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way