Habits
Jun 23rd, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“It is not from nature, but from education and habits that our wants are chiefly derived.”
– Henry Fielding (English novelist, 1707-1754)
Archive for the ‘Quote from the Ethics File’ Category
The Freedom of Democracy
Jun 16th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.”
– Bernard Baruch quotes (U.S. financier, statesman, and presidential adviser, 1870-1965)
Happiness and Wisdom
Jun 9th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”
– Charles Caleb Colton quotes (English cleric, writer, and collector, 1780-1832)
Men Having Power
Jun 2nd, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”
– James Madison (U.S. president and founding father, 1751-1836)
A Slave to Present Position
May 27th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another that right, makes a slave of himself to his present position, because he precludes himself from changing it.”
– Thomas Paine (U.S. political philosopher and author, 1737-1809)
Not Enough
May 19th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German writer, 1749-1832)
To Succeed
May 12th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
– Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain; U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
Genius
May 5th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“Genius is childhood recalled at will.”
– Charles Baudelaire (French poet, critic, and translator, 1821-1867)
Waiting
Apr 28th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“All things come to him who waits — provided he knows what he is waiting for.”
– Woodrow Wilson (28th U.S. president, 1856-1924)
Cooperation
Apr 21st, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.”
– William Feather (U.S. publisher and author, 1889-1981)
Lasting Strength
Apr 14th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“Right is the only ingredient that can make might lasting in our policy and conduct toward each other, toward minorities and disadvantaged men or people — yes, even toward our enemies.”
– Robert H. Jackson (U.S. Supreme Court justice and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, 1892–1954)
The Importance of Order
Apr 7th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“There is not lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.”
– John Steinbeck (U.S. writer, 1902-1968)
Arguing with the Inevitable
Mar 31st, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.”
– James Russell Lowell (U.S. writer, diplomat, and abolitionist, 1819-1891)
Racism
Mar 24th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File"In parts of the world — so called educated, so-called Western society — we’ve learned that it is not polite to be racist, and so often we don’t express racist views, but… racism is one of the big issues in the world today. Racism is the big social problem in the United States."
– Jared Diamond U.S. evolutionary biologist, physiologist, professor of geography and physiology, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, (b. 1937)
Hook
Mar 17th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, until you know there is no hook beneath it."
– Thomas Jefferson (3rd U.S. president, 1743-1826)
Our Greatest Hope
Mar 10th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good.”
– Calvin Coolidge (30th U.S. president, 1872-1933)
Great Spirits
Mar 3rd, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.”
– Albert Einstein, (U.S. (German-born) physicist, 1879-1955)
Freedom
Feb 25th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“Safe popular freedom consists of four things — the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness — and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.”
– Joseph Cook (Sixth prime minister of Australia, 1860-1947)
Mental Exercise
Feb 18th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“Few minds wear out; more rust out.”
– Christian Bovée (U.S. lawyer, 1820-1904)
Serious Business
Feb 11th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File“Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.”
– Alexis de Tocqueville (French political writer and statesman, 1805-1859)
