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Men Quotes by Charles Lindbergh
- [I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.
- Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far,…
- If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities…
- In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to…
- How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with…
- Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes…
- What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded…
- I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those of…
- Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should never overlook: that…
- Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly…
- Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or…
- We found a water pipe, tied the flag to it and put it up. Then all hell broke loose below. Troops cheered, ships blew whistles,…
- God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
- It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying,…
- Man has risen so far above all other species that he competes in ways unique in nature. He fights by means of complicated weapons; he…
- Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore…
- As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.
- Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.
- The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a…
- I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question of which way…
- I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter,…
- Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
- Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the…
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