best famous quotes

The danger comes not from what you do not know, but from what we believe to be true and yet it is not. (Quoted in the film An Inconvenient Truth)
The first duty of a man is to his conscience and his honor (quoted in the film The Avenger)
The radical invents the views, and when he tried to fall on the conservative adopts them. (From Notebooks)
Soap and education do not have rapid effects as a massacre, but are more deadly in the long run. (From The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation)
Humor is a great thing, is what saves us. Once checked, all our irritations and resentments slip away all our, and in their place stands a solar spirit. (Quoted in Reader’s Digest Selection, October 1997)
The man has been around 32000 years. The fact that they took hundreds of millions of years to prepare the world for him is a proof of the fact that it was created for man. I suppose it is, I do not know for sure. If the Eiffel Tower represent the current age of the world, the layer of paint on the tip of its spire represents the duration of man, and all perceive that this thin layer was what they were built the tower. I believe that we perceive it, but I do not know for sure. (Essay by the World Was Made for Man)
The good education consists in concealing how well we think about ourselves and how bad the other. (From Notebooks)
Gratitude is a debt that usually accumulates, as happens with blackmail: more pay, the more you want it. (Dall’Autobiografia)
His maxims [Benjamin Franklin] were full of animosity towards the young. Even today, a guy can not obey one of its natural instincts without encountering one of best quotes everlasting aphorisms. (Quoted in Reader’s Digest Selection, August 1965)
Do not we all the fools in town on our side? And this is not enough to form an overwhelming majority in every city? (Quoted in Focus No. 62, p.. 181)
There ‘s “Queen’s English.” The property has fallen into the hands of a public company, and we have the majority stake! (From Following the Equator)
If you can not get a compliment any other way, rather than pay him anything. (From Notebooks)
You should believe that this same God without scruples, this moral cripple, he was appointed teacher of goodness, of morals, of mercy, of legality, of purity? It seems impossible and insane. (Quoted in Karlheinz Deschner, Above us … no, Ariel, 2008)