Favorite Quotations

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
William O. Douglas (1898 – 1980)

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
Henry Doherty (1870 – 1939)

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm. 
Harry Truman (1884 – 1972)

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

 

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Viktor Frankl

 

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity.

G. K. Chesterton