Hidni Quotes

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow.

The shadow is what we think of it;

the tree is the real thing.

When I’m good,

I’m very good.

But when I’m bad,

I’m better.

A capacity, and taste,

for reading gives access to whatever

has already been discovered by others.

When you look at the light bulb above you,

you remember Thomas Alva Edison.

When the telephone bell rings,

you remember Alexander Graham Bell.

Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize.

When you see the blue sky,

you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary,

simply by doing them with the right people.

Without leaps of imagination,

or dreaming,

we lose the excitement of possibilities.

Dreaming,

after all,

is a form of planning.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow;

there is no humor in Heaven.

Christmas is a season for

kindling the fire for

hospitality in the hall,

the genial flame of

charity in the heart.

This time,

like all times,

is a very good one,

if we but know what to do with it.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die At any time.

I am naturally anti slavery.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

The more you know,

the more you can enjoy what’s happening.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

The alternate domination of one faction over another,

sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension,

which in different ages and countries has perpetrated

the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.

But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

My comedy is my life.

I have no hostility to nature,

but a child's love to it.

I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.

We hold these truths to be self

evident,

that all men are created equal...

— The Declaration of Independence (1776)