famous quotes
“The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.”
Jul 6 2018
– Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization..
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”
Jul 2 2018
– Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a leading Yiddish author and playwright. The musical based on his stories about Tevye the Dairyman, was the first commercially successful English-language stage production about Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The Hebrew phrase "shalom aleichem" literally means "peace be upon you", and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish.
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
Jun 27 2018
– Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from 1933 to 1945 during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office.
“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
Feb 6 2014
– Confucius, was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese history. The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity.
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
Jan 27 2014
– George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Jan 9 2014
– Isaac Asimov, was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books.
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
Dec 5 2013
– Mary Anne, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, and translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Nov 1 2013
– Oscar Wilde, an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.
“All thinking men are atheists.”
Oct 18 2013
– Ernest Hemmingway, was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations.
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
Sep 13 2013
– Paulo Coelho, is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He has become one of the most widely read authors in the world today.
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
Jul 21 2013
– Gabriel García Márquez, is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America.
“Give a man a mask and he will show his true face.”
Jul 20 2013
– Oscar Wilde, an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.
“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
Jul 20 2013
– Albert Camus, a French-Algeria-born French Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher.
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
Jun 28 2013
– Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, philosophy, and science.
