A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.