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
Malala Yousufzai, youngest winner of NPP, Pakistani feminist
“Let us remember, one book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world”
Pablo Picasso, 20th century Spanish artist, Cubist movement
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls”
Nelson Mandela, First south African president
“It always seems impossible until it is done”
Robert Burns, 18th century romantic poet
“The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray”
Maya Angelou, 20th century African American Poet & civil rights movement leader
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Virginia Woolf, 20th century author, feminist and modernist
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman”
Eleonor Roosevelt, longest serving first lady of the United States
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”
Henry David Thoreau, 19th century transcendentalist, Civil Disobedience
“Things do not change, we change”
Voltaire, 18th century French enlightenment author
“I do not agree with what you have to say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it”
Johnathan Swift, 18th century irish satirical essayist
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally everybody’s face but their own”
