Daily Citation

2011-05-02T15:42:00.000-07:00

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch
philosopher 46 - 120

2011-05-01T07:14:00.000-07:00

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi
1869 - 1948

2011-04-30T22:14:00.000-07:00

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Francis Bacon
philosopher 1561 - 1626

2011-04-26T13:08:00.000-07:00

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Kemal Ataturk
soldier 1881 - 1938

2011-04-25T06:08:00.000-07:00

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman 106 BC - 43 BC

2011-04-24T19:19:00.000-07:00

I took some time out for life.

James L. Brooks
producer 1940 -

2010-02-07T09:01:00.000-08:00

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Bertrand Russell
author 1872 - 1970

2010-02-02T17:37:00.000-08:00

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

Socrates
philosopher 469BC - 399BC

2010-02-01T18:50:00.000-08:00

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Benjamin Franklin

american patriot 1706 - 1790

2010-01-23T21:58:00.000-08:00

If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Albert Camus
author 1913 - 1960

2010-01-21T11:55:00.000-08:00

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Kurt Vonnegut
author 1922 - 2007

2010-01-20T11:42:00.000-08:00

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Douglas Adams
humorist 1952 - 2001

2010-01-19T11:52:00.000-08:00

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.

Walter Bagehot
economist 1826 - 1877

2010-01-18T09:54:00.000-08:00

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

John Stuart Mill
philosopher 1806 - 1873

2010-01-17T07:32:00.000-08:00

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka
author 1883 - 1924

2010-01-16T13:11:00.000-08:00

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

Edgard Varese
composer 1883 - 1965

2010-01-14T08:28:00.000-08:00

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller
educator 1880 - 1968

2010-01-13T08:15:00.000-08:00

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.

Jane Austen
author 1775 - 1817

2010-01-12T05:31:00.000-08:00

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well mannered.

Voltaire
author 1694 - 1778

2010-01-11T12:39:00.000-08:00

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx
comedian 1890 - 1977

2010-01-09T15:15:00.000-08:00

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Leonardo da Vinci
artist 1452 - 1519

2010-01-05T08:24:00.000-08:00

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Thomas Paine
US patriot 1737 - 1809

2010-01-04T17:12:00.000-08:00

Fear of the masses brings strength to the individual.

Rob White
man of the people 1964 -

2009-12-29T17:35:00.000-08:00

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Carl Jung
psychologist 1875 - 1961

2009-12-28T21:30:00.000-08:00

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Sir Francis Bacon
philosopher 1561 - 1626

2009-12-26T08:56:00.000-08:00

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno
philosopher 335 BC - 264 BC

2009-12-24T22:01:00.000-08:00

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on another journey.

Charles Dickens
author 1812 - 1870

2009-12-23T07:04:00.000-08:00

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

Marquis de Lafayette
revolutionary 1757 - 1834

2009-12-21T22:03:00.000-08:00

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the one most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin
biologist 1889 - 1882

2009-12-20T20:45:00.000-08:00

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt
diplomat & first lady 1884 - 1962

2009-12-19T06:20:00.000-08:00

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte
general and politician 1769 - 1821

2009-12-17T19:29:00.000-08:00

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. president 1743 - 1826

2009-12-16T03:53:00.000-08:00

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Nikola Tesla
inventor 1856 - 1943

2009-12-15T04:07:00.000-08:00

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain
author 1835 - 1910

2009-12-12T06:38:00.000-08:00

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha
spiritual leader 563 BC - 483 BC

2009-12-11T13:10:00.000-08:00

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Frank Lloyd Wright
architect 1867 - 1959

2009-12-10T17:19:00.000-08:00

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Frank Zappa
musician 1940 - 1993

2009-12-09T13:01:00.000-08:00

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Euripides
author 484 BC - 406 BC

2009-12-08T04:01:00.000-08:00

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

Freidrich Nietzche
philosopher 1844 - 1900

2009-12-07T13:27:00.000-08:00

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.

Henry David Thoreau
author 1817 - 1862

2009-12-05T10:37:00.000-08:00

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

novelist 1879 - 1958

2009-12-04T07:34:00.000-08:00

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

Kahlil Gibran
poet 1883 - 1931

2009-12-03T10:39:00.000-08:00

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

James Garfield
20th U.S. president 1831 - 1881

2009-12-01T22:15:00.000-08:00

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

Dag Hammarskjold
diplomat 1905 - 1961

2009-12-01T06:23:00.000-08:00

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

C.P. Snow
physicist and novelist 1905 - 1980

2009-11-30T08:22:00.000-08:00

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle
philosopher 384 BC - 322 BC

2009-11-28T21:48:00.000-08:00

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill
politician 1874 - 1965

2009-11-27T22:27:00.000-08:00

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei
astronomer 1564 - 1642

2009-11-26T21:25:00.000-08:00

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Hermann Hesse
author 1877 - 1962

2009-11-26T10:13:00.000-08:00

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana
philosopher 1863-1952