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Precious, Pleasurable Learning Quotes

It's a pleasure sharing some of the coolest, worth reading, learning wisdom quotes you ever read. After going through them, you will find yourself little better wiser and inspired.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
- Charles A. Beard

A man who limits his interests limits his life.
- Vincent Price

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms... The strongest reason for people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
- Thomas Jefferson

Distrust all men in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss

We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money.
- David Crockett

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Dr. Benjamin Franklin

John Adams was a farmer. Abraham Lincoln was a small-town lawyer. Plato, Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate judgement and wisdom with occupation is at best . . . insulting.
- Benedict Valda

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
- Woody Allen

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
- Juliana Hatfield

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
- Thomas Jefferson.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
- Anton Chekhov

Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?
- Thomas Jefferson to William S. Smith

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Thomas Jefferson

Ever notice that 'What the hell' is always the right decision?
- Marilyn Monroe

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensible condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
- Benjamin Cardozo, Palko v. Connecticut

When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.
- Allen H. Neuharth

There's no genius free from a tincture of madness.
- Seneca

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
- Thomas Jefferson

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
- Robert Frost

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
- Voltaire

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Lord Acton

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
- John Locke

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
- Wayne Dyer

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.
- Steve Jobs

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate.
- Eric Idle

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen,not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
- Hubert H. Humphrey

The minute you read something you can't understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer.
- Will Rogers

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth.
- Socrates

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.
- Escher

Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
- Dykstra

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
- Thomas Jefferson to his nephew Peter Carr

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
- Bern Williams

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson

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