J. W. Eagan
Abba Eben
M. Ebner-Eschenbach
Johannes Eckhard
Marian Wright Edelman
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Ehrlich
Albert Einstein
Larry Eisenberg
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Ebeneser Elliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friedrich Engels
Epictetus
Epicurus
Desiderius Erasmus
Susan Ertz
Julius Erving
Jean-Louis Etienne
William Norman Ewer
Sam Ewing
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Never judge a book by its movie.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Be the first to say what is self-evident, and you are immortal.
God can no more do without us than we can do without him.
What is truth? Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I would keep to the truth and let God go.
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits.
All I ask of my body is that it carry around my head.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea, and oneself.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the fourth will be fought with stones.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
The difference between what the most and least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to what is unknown.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
The cause of freedom can never be defeated.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
We seek victory--not over any nation or people--but over ignorance, poverty, disease, and human degradation wherever they may be found.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Politics ought to be at least the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
The constant danger to democracy lies in the tendency of the individual to hide himself in the crowd--to defend his own failure to act forthrightly according to conviction under the false excuse that the effort of one in one hundred forty million has no significance.
It is never too late to be who you might have been.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
In my end is my beginning.
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
What is a communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.
Every artist was first an amateur.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare.
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in speed.
This time, like any other time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Don't go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great mind simply has nothing to do.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another--no less in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
The earth is the first condition of our existence. To make it an object of trade was the last step towards making human beings an object of trade. To buy and sell land is an immorality surpassed only by the immorality of selling oneself into slavery.
Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.
If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of philosophy.
The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, that he is always getting ready to live.
The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
Of two evils the least is to be chosen.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.
Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything.
I gave my life for freedom--This I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.
An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.
Sucess has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
The government deficit is the difference between the amount the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
