Does Quotes

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

No, my son's a songwriter and he does that.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

When Obama gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it, the Romney plan does not do that. The Ryan plan mimicked part of the Obama package there, the Romney plan does not. That's a big difference.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

I think it does Discworld good if I don't write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.