To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
One whom the infernal gods of Hannibal will cause to be reborn, terror of mankind; never more horror nor worse days in… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
We are born with greed and malicious thoughts that's why these things are easy to understand. But not everybody has kindness, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their good work shine, all… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
“The salpinx is not simply an instrument of summoning. It is also an instrument of binding. Since you followed its sorrowful tones… — Frank Lambert Copy Share Image
May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses of one… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Christ was a sublime actor on the stage of the world. He knew what he was thinking of when he said, "Heaven… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the universe, it's being fought, all through the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
As we study the Word of God rightly divided we are to understand that God has arranged His dealings with mankind into… — Paul Sadler Copy Share Image
Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden… — George Finlayson Copy Share Image
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the… — Ihara Saikaku Copy Share Image
The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity;… — George Stanley Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
This festival... the festival of Makar Sankranti... is our way of showing love towards nature. While global warming poses a serious threat… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For me, life is the most beautiful gift of God to mankind, therefore people and nations who destroy life by abortion and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is no question that America has been a nation that has been blessed by almighty God. There is no other nation… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
Along with everything else, I know that there is a beauty in mankind. It is a beauty that no ugliness, no violence,… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. Because he… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote… — Eisaku Sato Copy Share Image
“And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image