SHORT QUOTES BY GREAT MEN
1.
Being
ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.---American
statesman and philosopher Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).
2.
The
art of life is the avoiding of pain. ---Third President of the United States
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826).
3.
The
ballot is stronger than the bullet.---America’s Civil War President Abraham
Lincoln (1809-1865).
4.
When
angry, count four; when very angry, swear.---American writer-humourist Mark Twain (1835-1910).
5.
Things
do not change; we change.----American writer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862).
6.
The
great act of faith is when man decides that he is not God.---American Supreme
Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935).
7.
Every
child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged with man. –Indian Nobel
laureate, poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941).
8.
Education
is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.---Indian mystic, Vedanta
philosopher Swami Vivekananda
(1863-1902).
9.
The
family is one of nature’s masterpieces.---American philosopher, teacher, writer
George Santayana (1863-1952).
10.
To a man with an empty stomach food is
God.---Father of te Indian nation Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948).
11.
The older I grow the more I distrust the
familiar doctrine that age brings
wisdom.---American humourist H. L.
Mencken (1880-1956).
12.
It is useless to win battles if the cause for
which we fight these battles is lost. ---Thirty-second President of the United
States Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945).
13.
The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace
of change in human life. ---India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
(1889-1964).
14.
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us
never fear to negotiate.---Thirty-fifth President of the United States John F.
Kennedy (1917-1963).
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G. R. Kanwal
18 May 2026
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