Quotation Collection

Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies. H. L. Mencken

• liberty

You can't look good and get better at the same time. Anonymous

• self improvement
• appearance
• practice

It is not given to man to know what is right and what is wrong. Men always did and always will err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong. Leo Tolstoy

• mistakes

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Mae West

• life

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. Mark Twain

• ignorance
• doubt
• education

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. Robert Ingersoll

• rights
• liberty

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. Richard Feynman

• science

Not that I would not, if I could, be both handsome and fat and well-dressed and a great athlete, and make a million a year; be a wit, a bon-vivant, and a lady-killer, as well as a philosopher; a philanthropist, statesman, warrior, and African explorer, as well as a 'tone-poet' and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint's; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; and the philosopher and the lady-killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully, and pick out the one on which to stake his salvation. William James

• values
• priorities

Nothing can take the place of money in the area in which money works. Earl Nightingale

• money