"Man is a mixture of desires that extend……" — Charles Lindbergh
"Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality."
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Charles Lindbergh
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104 Quotes by Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh has 104 quotes on this site.
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[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives…
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Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire…
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These phantoms speak with human voices . . . able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and…
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Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But…
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The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory…
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Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership
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If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots…
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Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.
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We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to…
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In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe…
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Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science…
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If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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