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CAGES : If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages. (Isak Dinesen - pen name of Karen Blixen - Danish author, 1885-1962Entitlement: Many people consider the things government does for them to be Social Progress, but theregard the things government does for others as Socialism. (Earl Warren, U.S. Chief Justice and governor of California, 1891-1974Socialism: Many people consider the things government does for them to be Social Progress, but theregard the things government does for others as Socialism. (Earl Warren, U.S. politician and jurist, who served as the Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States, 1891-1974)
CAGES : If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages. (Isak Dinesen - pen name of Karen Blixen - Danish author and storyteller, 1885-1962)
CALMNESS : The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. (John Berry, U.S. country music artist, Born 1959)
CAMERAS : The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century. (Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist, essayist, and diplomat, 1928-2012)
CANADA : The U.S. assumes Canada to be bestowed as a right and accepts this bounty, as it does air, without thought or appreciation. (Dean Acheson, U.S. statesman and Secretary of State who helped design the Marshall Plan and was a key player in the development of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1893-1971)
CAPITALISM : The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. (Jawaharal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India as a secular democratic republic who was a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence, 1889-1964)
CAPITALISM : Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all. (Unknown Source)
CAPITALISM : Capitalism desacralizes nature and makes it a commodity for exploitation and profit. (Unknown Source)
CAPITALISM : The evils of free-market capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. (Unknown Source)
CAPITALISM : Capitalism desacralizes nature and makes it a commodity for exploitation and profit. (Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)
CAPITALISM : The evils of free-market capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)
CAPTURING : It is easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar. (English proverb)
CAREERS : Every calling is great when greatly pursued. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)
CAREERS : Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. (Honore de Balzac, French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850)
CARICATURES : Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth. (Joseph Conrad, Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924)
CASTIGATE : The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
CAUSES : There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for. (Unknown Source)
CAUTION : Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it. (Spanish proverb)
CAUTION : It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others. (Syrus, Greek son (of and Apollo and Synope) after whom the Syrians are named)
CAUTION : Hasten slowly. (Augustus Caesar, founder of the Roman Principate and considered the first Roman Emperor, controlling the Roman Empire from 27 BCE until his death, 63 BCE--14 AD)
CAUTION : Little boats should keep near shore. (Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
CAUTION : If your lips would keep from slips, five things to observe with care are: To whom you speak, of whom you speak, and how, and when, and where. (Unknown source)
CAUTION : Caution is the eldest child of wisdom. (Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and dramatist, 1802-1885)
CAUTION : In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. (Saki, [AKA Hector Hugh Monro], British writer considered as a master of the short story, 1870-1916)
CAUTION : Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. (Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer who authored Don Quixote, one of the most translated books in the world, 1547-1616)
CAUTION : Among mortals, second thoughts are wisest. (Euripides, ancient Greek dramatist, c. 480--c. 406 BCE)
CENSORSHIP : You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary (St. Jerome, Dalmatian Roman Catholic priest best known for his translation of most of the Bible into Latin347-420)
CENSORSHIP : No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)
CENSORSHIP : Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there. (Clare Boothe Luce, U.S. author, politician, first U.S. woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad, 1903-1987)
CENSORSHIP : We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would still be an evil. (John Stuart Mill, British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873)
CENSORSHIP : To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is todeclare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. (Claude Adrien Helvetius, French philosopher, freemason, and writer, 1715-1771)
CENSORSHIP : If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome, we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)
CENSORSHIP : The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. (Walt Whitman, U.S. essayist, journalist,and poet, known as the Father of Free Verse, 1819-1992)
CENSORSHIP : There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
CENSORSHIP : Every burned book enlightens the world. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
CERTAINTY : It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. (Unknown Source)
CERTAINTY : The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Unknown Source)
CERTAINTY : We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found. (Tzvetan Todorov, Bulgarian-French historian, geologist, and philosopher, 1939-2017)
CERTAINTY : There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain. (Samuel Butler, English author, 1835-1902)
CERTAINTY : Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)
CERTAINTY : It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
CERTAINTY : Only the closed mind is certain. (from the film, Dean Stanley)
CERTAINTY : Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant. (Unknown Source)
CERTAINTY : The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)
CERTAINTY : Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant. (H.L. Mencken, German-American journalist and social critic, 1880-1956)
CHALLENGES : If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable. (Murray Bookchin, U.S. libertarian socialist author, historian, and political theorist, who was a pioneer in the ecology movement, 1921-2006)
CHALLENGES : If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable. (Unknown Source)
CHALLENGES : The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the pathway of the strong. (Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)
CHALLENGES : You must do things you think you cannot do. (Eleanor Roosevelt, politician, diplomat, and activist who was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, 1884-1962)
CHALLENGES : The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the pathway of the strong. (Unknown Source)
CHALLENGES : Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. (Jonathan Kozol, U.S. educator, activist, and prize-winning author, Born 1936)
CHALLENGES : It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit in life . . . and keep moving forward. (Randy Pausch, U.S. professor of computer science and design, 1960-2008)
CHALLENGES : We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or . . . build with them. (William A. Ward, U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)
CHALLENGES : A wounded deer leaps the highest. (Emily Dickinson, U.S. poet, 1830-1886)
CHALLENGES : Tough times never last, but tough people do. (Unknown source)
CHALLENGES : A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. (English proverb)
CHALLENGES : If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable. (Murray Bookchin, U.S. libertarian socialist author, historian, and political theorist, who was a pioneer in the ecology movement, 1921-2006)
CHALLENGES : There are no extraordinary people, only ordinary people with extraordinary challenges to take on. (Unknown Source)
CHANCE : Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand. (Alexis de Tocqueville, French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)
CHANCE : Chance favors the prepared mind. (Unknown Source)
CHANGE : It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. (Charles Darwin, English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)
CHANGE : O God, give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed; courage to change what should be changed; and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. (Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S. theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1892-1971)
CHANGE : We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped. (Lyman Lloyd Bryson, U.S. educator, media advisor, and author, 1888-1959)
CHANGE : When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. (Helen Adams Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)
CHANGE : Be the change you wish to see in the world. (Unknown Source)
CHANGE : All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. (Anatole France, French novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate, 1844-1924)
CHANGE : I can generally bear the separation, but I don't like the leave-taking. (Samuel Butler, English author, 1835-1902)
CHANGE : The more things change, the more they stay the same. (Alphonse Karr, French critic, journalist, and novelist, French critic, journalist, and novelist, 1808-1890)
CHANGE : All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. (Anatole France, French novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate, 1844-1924)
CHANGE : I can generally bear separation, but I don't like the leave-taking. (Samuel Butler, English author, 1835-1902)
CHANGE : The ultimate paradox: Change is the only constant. (Michael Altschuler, U.S. business man and motivational speaker)
CHANGE : You must be the change you wish to see in the world. (Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)
CHANGE : The significant problems of our time cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
CHANGE : At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done. Then they begin to hope it can be done. Then they see it can be done. Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. (Frances Hodgson Burnett, British-American novelist and playwright, 1849-1924)
CHANGE : You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. (Buckminster Fuller, U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983)
CHANGE : Everything has changed, except our way of thinking. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
CHANGE : It is not the strongest of the species that survive - nor the most intelligent - but the one most responsive to change. (Charles Darwin, English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)
CHANGE : It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. (Unknown Source)
CHANGE : Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. (Unknown Source)
CHANGE : The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance of the need to change. (Unknown Source)
CHANGE : The more things change, the more they stay the same. (Alphonse Karr, French critic, journalist, and novelist, French critic, journalist, and novelist, 1808-1890)
CHANGE : You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. (Jessica Mitford, English author, journalist, and civil rights activist, 1917-1996)
CHANGE - MAKING : Pick a piece of the problem that you can help solve while trying to see how your piece fits into the broader social change puzzle. (Unknown Source)
CHANGE AGENTS : The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived. (Ann Patchett, U.S Prize-winning author, Born, 1963)
CHAOS : The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people. (Cornel West, U.S. philosopher, political activist, social critic, and author, Born 1953)
CHAOS : Whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift. (Septima Poinsette Clark, U.S. educator and civil rights activist, 1898-1987)
CHAOS-ORDER : Chaos often brings life while order brings habit. (Unknown source)
CHARACTER : Character develops in the full current of human life. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)
CHARACTER : Every man possesses three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he really has, and that which he believes he has. (Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, French novelist and journalist, 1808-1890)
CHARACTER : The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)
CHARACTER : Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want (Alice Malsenior Walker, U.S. author and awardee of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Born 1944)
CHARACTER : Every man possesses three characters. That which he exhibits, that which he really has, and that which he believes he has. (Unknown Source)
CHARACTER : Character is Destiny. (Heraclitus, Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of Ephesus, then part of the Persian Empire, 535-475 BCE)
CHARACTER : The ultimate measure of a man is not where he [sic] stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)
CHARACTER : The ultimate measure of a man is not where he [sic] stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Unknown Source)
CHARACTER : Character [develops] in the full current of human life. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)
CHARACTER : We all have both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. (J. K. Rowling, British novelist who is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series., Born 1965)
CHARACTER : In the end, it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)
CHARITY : Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. (Albert Camus, French Nobel prize-winning writer and philosopher, 1913-1960Generosity: Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. (Albert Camus, French Nobel prize-winning writer and philosopher, 1913-1960Friendship: A friend is someone who sees right through and likes the show. (Dorothy Baldwin Satten, U.S. author and psychotherapist, 1932-2013)
CHARITY : Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. (Albert Camus, French Nobel prize-winning writer and philosopher, 1913-1960)
CHARITY : A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. (Ralph Nader, U.S. activist, author, speaker, and attorney, Born 1934)
CHARM : Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful. (Kathleen Winsor, U.S. author who is best known for her first historical book, Forever Amber, a racy novel, that became a runaway bestseller even as it drew criticism from some authorities for its depictions of sexuality, 1919-2003)
CHEATING : No man is more cheated than the selfish man. (Henry Ward Beecher, U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)
CHEERFULNESS : Keep your face to the sunshine and you won't see the shadows. (Helen Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)
CHEERFULNESS - POSITIVISM : Keep your face to the sunshine and you won't see the shadows. (Helen Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)
CHILDCARE : What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. (P.D. James, English crime novelist, 1920-2014)
CHILDCARE : What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. (P.D. James, English crime novelist, 1920-2014)
CHILDHOOD : We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until . . . we have stopped saying It got lost, and say I lost it. (Sydney J. Harris, U.S. journalist and columnist, 1917-1986)
CHILDHOOD : Many children, many cares. No children, no felicity. (Christian Bovee, U.S. writer, 1820-1904)
CHILDHOOD : Children have more need of models than of critics. (Joseph Joubert, French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)
CHILDHOOD : Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. (Harold S. Hulbert, U.S. actor, 1909-1959)
CHILDHOOD : The wildest colts make the best horses. (Plutarch, Greek biographer and essayist, 45-120 CE)
CHILDHOOD : The habits we form from childhood make no small difference. They make all the difference. (Takao Hensch, U.S. joint Professor of Neurology and Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University’s Center for Brain Science)
CHILDHOOD : A child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. (Ellen Key, Swedish feminist writer and an early advocate of a child-centered approach to education and parenting, 1849-192)
CHILDHOOD : What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. (P.D. James, English crime novelist, 1920-2014)
CHILDHOOD : There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents. (Leon R. Yankwich, U.S. Federal judge, 1888-1975)
CHILDHOOD : . . . 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. (Rhawn Joseph, U.S. neuroscientist and author)
CHILDREN : Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. (Lady Bird Johnson, U.S. socialite and the First Lady of the United States as the wife of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson, 1912-2007)
CHOICES : The ultimate choices for a man . . . are to create or destroy, to love or to hate. (Erich Fromm, German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980)
CHOICES : Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
CIRCUMSTANCES : It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore. (Unknown source)
CITIZENS UNITED : I will believe that corporations are real people when Texas decides not to execute them. (Unknown source)
CITIZENS UNITED : I will believe that corporations are real people when Texas decides not to execute them. (Unknown Source)
CITIZENSHIP : I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world. (Socrates, classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, 470-399 BCE)
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE - PROTEST : Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
CIVIL RIGHTS : Those who prefer security over civil rights deserve neither security nor civil rights. (Unknown Source)
CIVIL RIGHTS : I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman. (Susan B. Anthony, U.S. social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement, 1820-1906)
CIVILITY : Civility is not a sign of weakness. (John F. Kennedy, U.S. politician and 35th U.S. president, 1917-1963)
CIVILITY : Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. (Wendell Berry, U.S. farmer, environmentalist activist, cultural critic, Born 1934)
CIVILIZATION : The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. (Unknown Source)
CIVILIZATION : The onset of agriculture and the emergence of village life was civilization, itself (Peter Turchin, Russian-American scientist specializing in the statistical analysis of cultural evolution, Born 1957)
CIVILIZATION : The true test of a civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops -- no, but the kind of man the country turns out. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
CIVILIZATION : Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. (Isaac Asimov, U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)
CIVILIZATION : Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. (Arnold Toynbee, British professor, historian, and leading specialist in international affairs, 1889-1975)
CIVILIZATION : If Moses had been a committee, the Israelites would still be in Egypt. (J. B. Hughes, Australian-British developer and politician, 1817-1881)
CIVILIZATION : If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. (Arthur Goldberg, U.S. statesman, jurist of the U.S. Court, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1908-1990)
CLEVERNESS : When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. (Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish-born U.S. rabbi and professor, 1907-1972)
CLOSEMOUTHED : The strongest person in any room is the one who speaks the least. (Chinese proverb)
COLLEGE : Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. (Unknown source)
COLONIALISM : I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)
COMMERCE : Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests. (James A. Garfield, U.S. politician and 20th president of the United States, serving only six and a half months until his death by assassination 1831-1881 )
COMMISERATION : Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger. (Pema Chodron, U.S. Tibetan Buddhist nun, Born 1936)
COMMISERATION : Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person. (Pema Chodron, U.S. Tibetan Buddhist nun, Born 1936)
COMMISERATION : Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone. (George Washington, U.S. politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1732-1799)
COMMITMENT : I am only one, / But still I am one. / I cannot do everything, / But still I can do something; / And because I cannot do everything, / I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. (Edward Everett Hale, U.S. historian, Unitarian minister, and author, 1822-1909)
COMMITMENT : The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
COMMITTEES : A committee is a group of people who keep minutes and waste hours. (Milton Berle, U.S. comedian, actor, and TV host, 1908-2002)
COMMITTEES : It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. (John Steinbeck, U.S. writer and recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1902-1968)
COMMITTEES : A camel is a horse designed by a committee. (Unknown source)
COMMITTEES : A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. (Barnett Cocks, British clerk in the House of Commons, 1907-1989)
COMMON SENSE : Common sense is not so common. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)
COMMUNICATION : No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. (Henry Brooks Adams, U.S. historian and descendant of two U.S. presidents, 1838-1918)
COMMUNICATION : There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam. (John Updike, U.S. writer, and art and literary critic, 1932-2009)
COMMUNICATION : A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally. (W.H. Auden, English-American poet, 1907-1973)
COMMUNICATION : The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has taken place. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
COMMUNICATION : People will believe a big lie sooner than they will a little lie, and if you repeat it often enough, people will, sooner or later, believe it. (Walter Savage Landor, English writer, poet, and activist, 1775-1864)
COMMUNICATION : People change and forget to tell each other. (Lillian Hellman, U.S. dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism, 1905-1984)
COMMUNICATION : It often shows a fine command of language to say nothing. (Unknown source)
COMMUNICATION : The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has taken place. (Unknown Source)
COMMUNICATION : The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. (Karl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)
COMMUNICATION : People will believe a big lie sooner than they will a little lie, and if you repeat it often enough, people will, sooner or later, believe it. (Unknown Source)
COMMUNICATION : A bad reader is like a bad translator. He interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally. (Unknown Source)
COMMUNICATION : The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. (Kin Hubbard, U.S. cartoonist and humorist, 1868-1930)
COMMUNICATION : Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. (Neil deGrasse Tyson, U.S. astrophysicist and author, Born 1958)
COMMUNICATION : 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. (William James, U.S. philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician, 1842-1910)
COMMUNICATION : Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures -- in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author and aviator, 1900-1944)
COMMUNICATION : The most flexible mode of expression is dialogue. (Unknown Source)
COMMUNICATION : Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. (Chinese proverb)
COMMUNICATION : The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
COMMUNICATION : Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures -- in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author and aviator, 1900-1944)
COMMUNICATION : We live in a world in which we have more diatribe and less dialogue. (Murad Gharibian, U.S. dentist, Born 1969)
COMMUNICATION : The medium is the Message. (Marshall McLuhan, Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)
COMMUNICATION : He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. (Elbert Hubbard, U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, 1856-1915)
COMMUNICATION : The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not being said. (Peter Drucker, Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005)
COMMUNICATION : A timid question will always receive a confident answer. (Charles John Darling, English lawyer, judge, and politician, 1849-1936)
COMMUNICATION : People change and forget to tell each other. (Unknown Source)
COMMUNITY : We are in the world in relationship with others. Our capacity to realize our own objectives is inextricably wrapped up with the capacity of others to realize theirs. (Unknown source)
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION : Organizers need to be well-integrated schizoids - ready to polarize in order to mobilize people and then be able to depolarize in order to settle matters. (Saul Alinsky, U.S. community organizer, 1909-1972)
COMPASSION : My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. (George Eliot [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], English novelist, 1819-1880)
COMPASSION : Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free The wretched refuse of your teeming shore) Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me) I lift my lamp beside the golden door. (Emma Lazarus, U.S. poet best known for The New Colossus, a sonnet whose lines above appear inscribed on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the U.S. Statue of Liberty, 1849-1887)
COMPASSION : Compassion opens the inner door of the heart. (Unknown Source)
COMPASSION : Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door. (Emma Lazarus, U.S. poet best known for The New Colossus, a sonnet whose lines above appear inscribed on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the U.S. Statue of Liberty, 1849-1887)
COMPASSION : Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door. (Emma Lazarus, U.S. poet best known for The New Colossus, a sonnet whose lines above appear inscribed on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the U.S. Statue of Liberty, 1849-1887)
COMPETITION : Sometimes you win: sometimes you learn. (Unknown source)
COMPETITION : The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. (Rutherford B. Hayes, U.S. politician and 19thPresident of the U.S., 1877-1881)
COMPREHENSION : It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. (Upton Sinclair, Jr., U.S. writer, 1878-1968)
COMPROMISE : Abortion foes and pro-choicers can arrive at 'common ground' - adoption. (Parker J. Palmer, U.S. sociologist, author, and teacher-educator, Born 1939)
COMPROMISE : Real life is, to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)
COMPROMISE : You must lose a fly to catch a trout. (George Herbert, Welsh-born poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England, 1593-1633)
COMPROMISE : If politics is the art of the possible, compromise is the artistry of democracy. (Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thomason (Unknown Source)
COMPROMISE - BARTERING : If politics is the art of the possible, compromise is the artistry of democracy. (Amy Gutmann, U.S. Professor of Political Science and President of the University of Pennsylvania, Born 1949)
COMPROMISE - BARTERING : All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. (Edmund Burke, Irish statesman who served in the British Parliament, author, orator, and political philosopher, 1729-1797)
COMPROMISE - BARTERING : All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. (Unknown Source)
COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY : Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. (Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist, 1930-2002)
COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY : The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. (Richard Hamming, U.S. mathematician whose work had many implications for computer engineering, 1915-1918)
COMPUTERS : Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make easier don’t need to be done. (Andy Rooney, U.S. radio and television writer, 1919-2011)
CONFESSION : There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. (Daniel Webster, U.S. politician who served as Secretary of State, 1782-1852)
CONFIRMATION : Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures -- in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author and aviator, 1900-1944)
CONFLICT : Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it. (Unknown source)
CONFLICT : You must be the change you wish to see in the world. (Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)
CONFORMITY : Why fit in when you were born to stand out? (Theodor Seuss Geisel [pen name of Dr. Seuss], U.S. political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books, 1904-1991)
CONFORMITY : The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. (Rita Mae Brown, U.S. writer and feminist, Born 1944)
CONFORMITY : It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. (Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian spiritual writer and speaker, 1895-1986)
CONFORMITY : He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. (Raymond Hull, Canadian playwright, television screenwriter, 1919-1985)
CONNECTEDNESS : Pick a flower on earth and you move the farthest star. (Paul Dirac, English theoretical physicist, 1902-1984)
CONSCIENCE : No matter where I run, I meet myself there. (Dorothy Fields, U.S. librettist and lyricist who wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films, 1905-1974)
CONSCIENCE : If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)
CONSCIENCE : Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience. (Hassidic proverb)
CONSCIENCE : Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. (Josh Billings, U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)
CONSCIENCE : The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. (John Calvin, French theologian, pastor, and reformer during the Protestant Reformation, 1509-1564)
CONSCIENCE : Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. (John D. Rockefeller, Sr., U.S. oil industry business magnate and philanthropist, 1839-1937)
CONSCIENCE : The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)
CONSCIENCE : There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. (Polybius, Greek historian of the Hellenistic period, 200-118 BCE)
CONSCIENCE : One need not be a chamber to be haunted, one need not to be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place. (Emily Dickinson, U.S. poet, 1830-1886)
CONSCIENCE : Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience. (Unknown Source)
CONSCIENCE : The needle of our conscience is as good a compass as any. (Ruth Wolff, U.S. playwright and screenwriter, 1927-2016)
CONSCIENCE : If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. (Unknown Source)
CONSCIENCE : The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. (Harper Lee, U.S. Pulitzer Prize winner for the book To Kill a Mockingbird, 1926-2016)
CONSCIENCE : Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. (Walter Lippmann, U.S. journalist who coined the term stereotype, 1889-1974)
CONSCIENCE : There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. (Ogden Nash, U.S. poet well known for his light verse, 1902-1971)
CONSCIENCE : Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. (Samuel Butler, English author, 1835-1902)
CONSCIENCE : The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. (Harper Lee, U.S. novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, for which she received a Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1926-2016)
CONSEQUENCES : In nature there are neither rewards or punishments----there are consequences. (Robert G. Ingersoll, U.S. writer and orator who was nicknamed 'The Great Agnostic,' 1833-1899)
CONSEQUENCES : In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. (Robert Green Ingersoll, U.S. lawyer and orator, 1833-1899)
CONSERVATISM : What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)
CONSISTENCY : Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
CONSTITUTIONS : The U.S. is under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is. (Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. statesman, Governor of New York, and jurist in the Supreme Court, 1862-1948)
CONSULTANTS : A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)
CONSUMERISM : In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. (Ivan Illich, Croatian-Austrian philosopher, priest, and polemical critic of the institutions of Western culture, 1926-2002)
CONTEMPLATION : Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. (John F. Kennedy, U.S. politician and 35th U.S. president, 1917-1963)
CONTRADICTION : Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor is the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Catholic theologian, 1623-1662)
CONTROL : For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. (Unknown source)
CONTROL : The power to define the situation is the ultimate power. (Jerry Rubin, U.S. activist and author, 1938-1994Freedom: In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. (Kathleen Norris, U.S. novelist and columnist, 1880-1966)
CONTROL : So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us. (Mother Maribel, English artist and Roman Catholic nun, 1940-1970)
CONTROL : The power to define the situation is the ultimate power. (Jerry Rubin, U.S. activist and author, 1938-1994)
CONVCTION : A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)
CONVERSATIONS : Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. (Margaret Millar, Canadian-American mystery and suspense writer, 1915-1994)
CONVICTIONS : The challenge is to live consciously and intentionally. (Unknown source)
CONVICTIONS : Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your own experience or conviction. (DagHammarskjold, Swedish diplomat, economist, and author, who served as the second Secretary-General of theUnited Nations, 1905-1961)
CONVICTIONS : The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. (Unknown Source)
CONVICTIONS : Think for yourself and question authority. (Timothy Leary, U.S. psychologist and writer, 1920-1996)
COOPERATION : If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine. (Horace, Roman lyric poet and satirist, 65 to 8 BCE)
COOPERATION : When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. (Ethiopian proverb)
CORPORATIONS : The power of all corporations ought to be limited . . . . The growing wealth accumulated by them never fails to be a source of abuses. (James Madison, Father of the U.S. Constitution and the fourth president of the United States, 1751-1836)
CORRUPTION : The more corrupt the state, the more laws. (Tacitus, senator and a historian of the Roman Empire, 56-120 AD)
CORRUPTION : When plunder [corruption] becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves . . . a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. (Frederic Bastiat, French writer and economist, 1801-1850)
CORRUPTION : Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions . . . are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends. (Walter Lippmann, U.S. reporter, political commentator, writer, and recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes, 1889-1974)
CORRUPTION : When government becomes a lawbreaker, it's an invitation to anarchy. (Federal judge in U.S. Watergate proceedings)
CORRUPTION : When foxes guard the henhouses, the hens don't flourish. (Proverb)
CORRUPTION : When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. (Lin Yutang, Hokkien Chinese writer, translator, linguist, philosopher and inventor, 1895-1976)
CORRUPTION : When plunder [corruption] becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves . . . a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. (Unknown Source)
COUNSELING : We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. (Albert Schweitzer, French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965)
COUNSELING : When you counsel someone, you should . . . be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see. (Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)
COUNSELING : We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. (Unknown Source)
COURAGE : Courage demands a temporary surrender of security. (Gail Sheehy, U.S. author, journalist, and lecturer, Born 1937)
COURAGE : One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. (Andre Gide, French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)
COURAGE : Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. (Francois de la La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)
COURAGE : Trouble, like the hill ahead, straightens out when you advance upon it. (Marcelene Cox, U.S. writer, 1899-1998)
COURAGE : It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
COURAGE : Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. (David Lloyd George, British politician who served as the Prime Minister during World War I, 1863-1945)
COURAGE : We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)
COURAGE : Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. (George Smith Patton, Jr., U.S. World War II general of the Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy, 1885-1945)
COURAGE : It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
COURAGE : It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. (Unknown Source)
COURAGE : You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer and navigator who completed 4 voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, 1451-1506)
COURAGE : And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. (Anais Nin, French-born novelist, 1903-1977)
COURAGE : Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. (Unknown source)
COWARDICE : To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poet, 1850-1919)
COWARDICE : To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher, c. 551-478 BCE)
COWARDICE : First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - for I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out - for I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out. (Martin Niemoller, German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor, 1892-1984)
COWARDICE : First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - for I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out - for I was not a trade unionist.Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out. (Martin Niemoller, German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor, 1892-1984)
COWARDICE : First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - for I was not a socialistThen they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out - for I was not a trade unionistThen they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a JewThen they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out. (Martin Niemoller, German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor, 1892-1984)
COWARDICE : There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
CRAZINESS : The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy? (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
CREATIVITY : Creativity is the residue of wasted time. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
CREATIVITY : Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. (Anna Freud, Austrian-British psychoanalyst, 1895-1982)
CREATIVITY : We have no money, so we will have to think. (Unknown Source)
CREATIVITY : Creativity is the residue of wasted time. (Unknown Source)
CREATIVITY : Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking. (Eckhart Tolle, German-born resident of Canada, influential spiritual writer, Born 1948)
CREATIVITY : You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. (Maya Angelou, U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)
CRIME : Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)
CRIME : The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
CRIME : Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. (Juvenal, Roman poet, died 130 A.D.)
CRIME : Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. (Francois de la La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)
CRIMINAL JUSTICE : The U.S. has a criminal justice system that treats you better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. (Bryan Stevenson, U.S. lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law, Born 1959)
CRISIS : The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. (John F. Kennedy, U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination in 1963, 1917-1963)
CRITICAL THINKING : The value of education is not as much the amount of knowledge as it is the ability to question knowledge - 'better a well molded than a filled mind.' (Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and essayist, 1533-1592)
CRITICAL THINKING : The value of education is not as much the amount of knowledge as it is the ability to question knowledge - �better a well molded than a filled mind.� (Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and essayist, 1533-1592)
CRITICISM : Even the lion has to defend himself against flies. (German proverb)
CRITICISM : To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. (Elbert Hubbard, U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, 1856-1915)
CRITICISM - PRAISE : Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise. (Pierre Beaumarchais, French diplomat and polymath, 1732-1799)
CRITICISM - PRAISE : Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise. (Unknown Source)
CRITICS : Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. (Christopher Hampton, British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director, Born 1946)
CRITICS : Children have more need of models than of critics. (Joseph Joubert, French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)
CRITICS : People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. (Chinese proverb)
CRITICS : We criticize people for not giving us what we ourselves are afraid to ask for. (Marshall Rosenberg, U.S. psychologist, mediator, author, and teacher who developed the Non-violent Communication process for helping to resolve conflict, 1934-2015)
CRUELTY : Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. (Unknown Source)
CRYING : Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. (Charles Dickens, British novelist, 1812-1870)
CULTURE : The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are equally unique manifestations of the human spirit. (Unknown Source)
CURIOSITY : Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance. (S. Leonard Rubinstein, U.S. Professor of Writing, 1922-2013)
CURIOSITY : Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. (Freya Stark, Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer who was one of the first non-Arabs to travel through the southern Arabian Desert, 1893-1993)
CURIOSITY : Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask whynot? (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
CURIOSITY : Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. (Unknown Source)
CURIOSITY : I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
CYNICISM : A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
CYNICISM : A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. (Unknown Source)