Quotes Flashcards
Simone Weil
French mystic and philosopher
Every being cries out to read differently.
Ralph Walder Emerson
American Poet and Philosopher
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
Pontius Pilate
Roman Prefect to Jerusalem circa AD 30
Quid est veritas?
What is truth?
Friends quote…
Isaac Newton
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend; but my greatest friend is truth.
Shoulders of giants (humility)
Isaac Newton
If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Great ocean of truth…
Isaac Newton
I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to be only like a boy playing at the seashore, and diverting myself in now an then finding a smoother pebble nor prettier shell than ordinary while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Apostle Paul - Love
If I speak with the tongues of man and of angels but have not love I am noisy gong or clanging cymbal.
Ghandhi - eye for an eye
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world go blind.
Ghandhi - needs and greed
The earth provides enough to satisfy every mans needs but not every mans greed.
Martin Luther King Jr
Health
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.
Martin Luther King Jr
Education
Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education.
C S Lewis
Education
Education without morals, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C S Lewis
Loving enemies
So loving my enemies does not apparently mean thinking them nice either. That is an enormous relief.
C S Lewis
Pride
Pride leads to every other vice.
Hebrew proverb
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is
Than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
