quotes Flashcards
Ghandi
20th century nonviolent leader of Indian independence movement
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Albert Einstein
20th century Germany physicist
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
Mark Twain, 19th century American Author
The two most important days of your life are the day you were born, and the day you found out why
Martin Luther King Jr, 20th century civil rights activist
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Oscar Wilde; 19th century Irish satirist, Victorian playwright and poet
The truth is rarely pure and never simple
Benjamin Franklin, 18th century founding father, inventor
When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.
Winston Churchill, 20th century British Prime Minister, WWII
History is written by the victors
George Orwell, 20th century British dystopian author, Animal Farm
In a time of universal deceit-telling the truth is a revolutionary act
Friedrich Nietzsche, 19th century German Philosopher
That which does not kill us makes us stronger
Jackie Robinson, First black major league baseball player, number 42 is retired across all MLB
I am not concerned with your liking or disliking of me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being
Socrates, classical Greek philosopher
True knowledge exists in knowing you know nothing
Hellen Keller, 20th century humanitarian, advocate for blind an deaf.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it
Steve Jobs, 20/21st century inventor, founder of Apple
Think Different
Ralph Waldo Emmerson. 19th century, leader of Transcendental movement
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail
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Ernest Hemingway, 20th century American novelist
All things truly wicked start from innocence