No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915
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The art of invention grows young with the things invented.
—Francis Bacon, 1605When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894Ashore it’s wine, women, and song; aboard it’s rum, bum, and concertina.
—British naval saying, c. 1800Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1847Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
—Pericles, c. 431 BCThere’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men’s hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H.G. Wells, 1920To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903