History Quote by B.F. Skinner

“A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“People can be cruel, deadly, heartless, selfish, disrespectful. They can be vice-ridden and lack any basic empathy toward their fellow man.”

— Carrie Lofty

“...the manner in which we live, and that in which we ought to live, are things so wide asunder, that he who quits the…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“He claimed that there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a…

— Mario Puzo

“Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and great calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same kind).”

— Lao Tzu

“The trouble, in fact, is a difficult one to deal with, since it is inflamed alike by sympathy and by lack of sympathy. The…

— Bertrand Russell

“The respectable, like the despised, are always at the mercy of circumstances; the influences of environment and the weight of tradition are vastly important…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“And isn't love between two people better than hatred, in this world of violence and mourning? There seemed to me a fragile kindness in…

— Jennifer Ryan

“there were people in the world who, for all their gruff arrogance, can, with scarcely a few notes, easily persuade you they are inherently…

— André Aciman

“There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of…

— Oscar Wilde

“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“There is nothing that so satisfactorily unites individuals who have been so unfortunate as to quarrel amongst themselves as a strong mutual dislike for…

— P.G.Wodehouse