Quotes From The Past.

Always inspiring, interesting and noteworthy.

" Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. "
Voltaire ( 1694-1778 )

" No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of its members are poor and miserable. "
Adam Smith ( 1723-1790 )

" The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. "
Maximilien Robespierre ( 1758-1794 )

" He that loves reading has everything within his reach. "
William Godwin ( 1756-1836 )

" Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. "
Jane Austen ( 1775-1817 ), Pride and Prejudice

" Drive out prejudices through the door, and they will return through the window. "
Frederick the Great ( 1712-1786 )

" Hegel says somewhere that all great events and personalities in world history reappear in one fashion or another. He forgot to add: the first time as a tragedy, the second as a farce. "
Karl Marx ( 1818-1883 )

" The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel. "
Horace Walpole ( 1717-1797 )

" Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts. "
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ( 1754-1838 )

" False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. "
Joseph de Maistre ( 1753-1821 )

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