There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.
When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any. . . Those who infringe upon property rights commit an injustice. . . If this occurs repeatedly, all incentives to cultural enterprise are destroyed and they cease utterly to make an effort. This leads to destruction and ruin of civilization.
One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.
Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep of the insights.
One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.
It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?