Quotes Compila on for Essay

Philosophical quotes
1. Charles Dickens #Kindness
● Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never res, and a touch that never hurts.
● A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
● We need never be ashamed of our tears.

2. H.G. Wells #Love and war

○ Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
○ If you fell down yesterday, stand up today
○ If we don't end the war, war will end us.
○ Our true na onality is mankind.

3. Mark Twain #Hope

● The secret of ge ng ahead is ge ng started.
● It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
● Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to
anything on which it is poured.
● Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
● Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is me to pause and reflect

4. Ray Bradbury #Faith and Hope

● It was a pleasure to burn.
● Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
● We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

5. Helen Keller #Sab Hojayega

● “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
● “While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”
● “The highest form of Educa on is Tolerance”

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 6. Charles Sullivan #Never Quit
● Never Say Never, Never Say No
● One must not focus on the risk of saying, "Yes." The greater risk is missing opportuni es
by saying, "No."

7. Christopher Columbus #Take risks

● You can never cross the ocean un l you have the courage to lose sight of the shore
● Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent

8. Richard Feynman
● “I would rather have ques ons that can't be answered than answers that can't be
ques oned.”

SOME OTHER QUOTES

● A li le of the earth belongs to those who are living,

A li le to those who are dead,

But a large part belongs to those who are yet to be born!

● We never know the worth of water ll the well is dry

- Thomas Fuller

● We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go

- Terri Swearingen

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 ● If you really think that environment is less important than economy, try holding your breath while
you count your money

-Guy McPherson

● The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else would save it

-Robert Swan

● We are the first genera on to feel the effect of climate change and the last genera on who can
do something about it

- Barack Obama

● You see, “Perhaps the sea's defini on of a shell is the pearl.

Perhaps me's defini on of coal is the diamond.”

—Kahlil Gibran

● “There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condi on of woman is improved.

It is not possible for a bird to fly on only one wing.”

-Vivekananda

● “I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved”.

-B.R Ambedkar

● “Poverty is the worst form of Violence”

- Mahatma Gandhi

● We have guided missiles and misguided men.

-Mar n Luther King Jr

● Not everything important is measurable, not everything measurable is important" (educa on,
marks, curriculum)

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 - Elliot Eisner

● “With guns you can kill terrorists, with educa on you can kill terrorism.”

― Malala Yousafzai

● Educa on is not just about going to school and ge ng a degree. It's about widening your
knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

-Shakuntala Devi

● In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, Fathers bury their sons.

- Herodotus

● Science is a beau ful gi to humanity; we should not distort it

-A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

● Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which
illuminates the world

-Louis Pasteur

● “We are just one miscalcula on, one misunderstanding away from nuclear annihila on”

-Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General

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