Confucius quote: “The ancients who wished…
Confucius quote: “The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the Kingdom, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order ...
Category: Quotes
A collection of quotes with an emphasis on sharing life experiences and wisdom from people throughout history.
Walt Whitman: The Spanish Peaks
Between Pueblo and Bent’s fort, southward, in a clear afternoon sun-spell I catch exceptionally good glimpses of the Spanish peaks. We are in southeastern...
President Ulysses Grant Quote
Quote: I do not bring into this assemblage politics, certainly not partisan politics, but it is a fair subject for soldiers in their deliberations to consider w...
Charles Eliot quote: “The endless controversies…
Quote: “The endless controversies whether language, philosophy, mathematics, or science supplies the best mental training, whether general education shoul...
Charles Dickens quote: “To conceal…
Quote: “To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.” – ...
Anne Frank quote: “How wonderful it is…
Quote: “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank — “Anne Frank quote: ‘Ho...
Louisa May Alcott Quote on Housekeeping
Louisa May Alcott quote: “Housekeeping ain’t no joke.” — Sources: Quote: Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. Robert Brothers, 1868 –...
“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”
Abraham Lincoln quote from letter to Albert Hodges “I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did ...
Amelia Earhart Quotes
Featured quote: “The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things li...
Clara Barton Quotes
Clara Barton Quotes “It was May—the cherry trees were in bloom. For the first time in three years I had been able to sit for an evening among a company of perso...