Jackson, Robert H. : Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
Jackson, Robert H. : Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
Jackson, Robert H. : We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.
James, William : We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
James, William : Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
James, William : A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
James, Alice : Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.
James, William : The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
James, William : A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
James, William : Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each person as he/she sees him/herself; each one as the other sees him/her; and each person as he/she really is.
James, William : Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
James, William : The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
James, P.D. : What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
James, P.D. : What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
James, P.D. : What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
Jameson, Anna : The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.
Jampolsky, Gerald : Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Jampolsky, Gerald : I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
Jefferson, Thomas : I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Jefferson, Thomas : Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.
Jefferson, Thomas : No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will.
Jefferson, Thomas : Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Jefferson, Thomas : If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . it expects what never was and never will be.
Jefferson, Thomas : Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Jefferson, Thomas : I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Jefferson, Thomas : Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Jefferson, Thomas : It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Jefferson, Thomas : The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
Jefferson, Thomas : The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
Jefferson, Thomas : The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. (John Locke, English philosopher, 1632-1704Banks: I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Jefferson, Thomas : The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
Jefferson, Thomas : I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Jefferson, Thomas : If I had to choose between a government without newspapers and newspapers without a government, I would unhesitatingly choose the latter.
Jefferson, Thomas : Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Jefferson, Thomas : I steer my bark with hope in my heart, leaving fear astern.
Jefferson, Thomas : Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Jefferson, Thomas : I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. (
Jefferson, Thomas : Resort to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Jerome, St. : You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary
Jerome, Jerome. K. : It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerrold, Douglas : The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I was a grave digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Jewell, John : Vessels never give so great a sound as when they are empty.
Jewett, Sarah Orne : A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.
Jimenez, Juan Ramon : If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
Jodorowsky, Alejandro : Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
Johnson, Samuel : Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Johnson, Samuel : The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
Johnson, Samuel : A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Johnson, Samuel : Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Johnson, Lyndon B. : Doing what is right isn't the problem; it's knowing what is right.
Johnson, Samuel : Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Johnson, Samuel : I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
Johnson, Samuel : Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Johnson, Samuel : Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Johnson, Samuel : Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Johnson, Lyndon B. : A man’s opinion is no better than his information.
Johnson, Samuel : It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.
Johnson, Gerald White : Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened but of what people believe happened.
Johnson, Lyndon B. : A man without a vote is a man without protection.
Johnson, Ben : We learn to read, so we can read to learn.
Johnson, Ben : Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
Johnson, Samuel : Words are but the signs of ideas.
Johnson, Ben : A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. (Joseph Conrad, Polish novelist, 1857-1924Conscience: Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. (Samuel Butler, English writer, 1835-1902Literacy: We learn to read, so we can read to learn.
Johnson, Samuel : The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Johnson, Samuel : Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
Johnson, Lady Bird : Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
Johnson, Hiram : The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Johnson, Samuel : The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.
Johnson, Samuel : While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates.
Johnson, Samuel : A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Johnson, Samuel : Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Johnson, Samuel : Adversity is the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers than.
Johnson, Samuel : Adversity is the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers then.
Jones, Paul Tudor : Failure is often the fire that forges the steel.
Jong, Erica : There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
Jong, Erica : The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Jong, Erica : If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
Jong, Erica : I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
Jonson, Ben : He was not of an age, but for all time!
Jonson, Ben : Language most shows a man: speak, that I may see thee.
Jordan, David Starr : The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
Joseph, Rhawn : . . . within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.
Joubert, Joseph : When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
Joubert, Joseph : Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Joubert, Joseph : He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joubert, Joseph : It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it
Joubert, Joseph : Never cut what you can untie.
Joubert, Joseph : Never cut what you can untie.
Joubert, Joseph : Children have more need of models than of critics.
Joubert, Joseph : Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
Joubert, Joseph : Children have more need of models than of critics.
Jung, Karl : The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Jung, Carl : Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.
Jung, Karl : The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Jung, Carl : The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Jung, Karl : The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Jung, Carl : Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Jung, Carl : Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.
Jung, Karl : The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Jung, Carl : Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Jung, Carl : The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.
Jung, Carl : Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Jung, Carl : Western man has no need of more superiority over nature. . . He must learn that he may not do exactly as he wills. If he does not learn this, his own nature will destroy him. He does not know that his own soul is rebelling against him in a suicidal way.
Jung, Carl : The telling question of a person's life is one's relationship with the infinite.
Jung, Karl : The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Jung, Carl : Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide. Those who look outwards dream but those who look inwards awake.
Jusserano, Jules : The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.
Jusserano, Jules : The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.
