When you want to help people, you tell them the truth.
When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
– Thomas Sowell
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. – Hanlon’s Razor
“You cannot have a testimony without a test.”
This quote emphasizes that challenges and difficulties in life can serve as opportunities for personal growth and the development of a strong testimony or faith. – Adrian Rogers
“You cannot legislate the morality of a nation.”
True moral values and righteousness come from the heart and cannot be imposed solely through legislation or government intervention. – Adrian Rogers
“Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay.”
This quote highlights the destructive nature of sin and its consequences, encouraging individuals to avoid it and seek a righteous path. – Adrian Rogers
“The ground is level at the foot of the cross.”
Rogers emphasized the equal worth and accessibility of God’s grace to all individuals, regardless of their social status, race, or background. – Adrian Rogers
“You cannot love people without being hurt by people, but you cannot love people without also being loved by people.”
This quote speaks to the vulnerability and risks associated with loving others but also highlights the reciprocal nature of love and the potential for receiving love in return. – Adrian Rogers
“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
Jerry Garcia
God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for the things we now celebrate and teach in schools.
An important scientific study proves that the result of a scientific study depends entirely on where its funding comes from.
There is no such thing as “Your Truth.”
There is the truth and your opinion.
Ben Shapiro
The Dunning-Kruger Effect:
A type of cognitive bias where people with little expertise or ability assume they have superior expertise or ability.
This overestimation occurs because they don’t have enough knowledge to know that they don’t have enough knowledge.
The general population doesn’t know what’s happening,
And it doesn’t even know it doesn’t know.
Noam Chomsky
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods
“Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.”
ALBERT EINSTEIN
“Courage is resistance to Fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
“It is infinitely better to have a few good Men, than many indifferent ones.”
GEORGE WASHINGTON
“Isn’t it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren’t born yet for missing it.”
L. M. MONTGOMERY
“Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is.”
WINSTON CHURCHILL
“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
OSCAR WILDE
“An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.”
CHARLES F. KETTERING
“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”
HORACE WALPOLE
“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
“It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.”
CHARLES F. KETTERING
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
MARK TWAIN
“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.”
OSCAR WILDE
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
“A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.”
JOHN HEYWOOD
“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”
STEVE JOBS
“No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.”
LEON WIESELTIER
“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
VOLTAIRE
“Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.”
ALEXANDER POPE
“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”
HARRY S TRUMAN
“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.”
ISAAC ASIMOV
“Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most.”
KATHRYN L. NELSON
“But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”
MITCH ALBOM
“Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
“Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.”
THOMAS SOWELL
“If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.”
ELBERT HUBBARD
“Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
HENRY MILLER
“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.”
THOMAS A. EDISON
“Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.”
THOMAS A. EDISON
“A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
MARK TWAIN
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”
VERNON LAW
“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
”A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
”To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
JANE AUSTEN
“Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.”
TOM LEHRER
”Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.”
MADAME DE STAEL
”The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration, then more practice and more concentration.”
BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS
”I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
DOUGLAS ADAMS
”THESE are the times that try men’s souls.”
THOMAS PAINE
”We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.”
MADELEINE L’ENGLE
”It’s what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”
CLAUDE BERNARD
”If you wear a mask for too long, there will come a time when you can not remove it without removing your face.”
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
”I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
”Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
”He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
”The world owes you nothing because the universe has already given you everything.”
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
”I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
MARK TWAIN
”Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
HENRY FORD
”The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.”
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 3/19/23
“We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved, there is no use worrying about it. If it can’t be solved, worrying will do no good.”
HEINRICH HARRER
“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble”
RUDYARD KIPLING
It’s OK to agree with people on some things and disagree with them on others.
Tom Woods