Nabokov, Vladimir: Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. (Vladimir Nabokov: Russian-born novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist, 1899-1977) Categories: DEATH
Nabokov, Vladimir: Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals . . . a nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius. (Vladimir Nabokov: Russian-born novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist, 1899-1977) Categories: SLEEP, INSOMNIA
Nader, Ralph: A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. (Ralph Nader: U.S. activist, author, speaker, and attorney, Born 1934) Categories: CHARITY, EQUITY, JUSTICE
Nader, Ralph: The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. (Ralph Nader: U.S. activist, author, speaker, and attorney, Born 1934) Categories: ENVIRONMENT, SOLAR ENERGY
Nanjiani, Kumail: Ethics in technology is essential in the decades to come. (Kumail Nanjiani: Pakistani-American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and podcast host., Born 1978) Categories: ETHICS, TECHNOLOGY
Napoleon: Ability is of little account without opportunity. (Napoleon: French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of military campaigns across Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: ABILITIES, OPPORTUNITY
Napoleon: Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight. (Napoleon: French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of military campaigns across Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: FORESIGHT, FORETHOUGHT
Napoleon Bonaparte: A leader is a dealer in hope. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: HOPE, LEADERSHIP
Napoleon Bonaparte: A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: MOTIVATION
Napoleon Bonaparte: An army marches on its stomach. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: FOOD, MILITARY, PROVISIONS
Napoleon Bonaparte: Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: FASHION
Napoleon Bonaparte: He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: FEAR, VULNERABILITY
Napoleon Bonaparte: He who saves his country does not violate the law. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: LAW, POWER
Napoleon Bonaparte: If they want peace, nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: PEACE, WAR
Napoleon Bonaparte: It is cowardice to commit suicide. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: SUICIDE
Napoleon Bonaparte: It requires more courage to suffer than to die. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: SUFFERING
Napoleon Bonaparte: Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: ENEMIES, WAR
Napoleon Bonaparte: Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: LEADERSHIP, DECISIONS
Napoleon Bonaparte: Public instruction should be the first object of government. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: EDUCATION
Napoleon Bonaparte: The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: BEDS, SLEEP
Napoleon Bonaparte: The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: COURAGE, ENDURANCE, FATIGUE
Napoleon Bonaparte: The heart of a statesman should be in his head. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: POLITICIANS, SENSITIVITY
Napoleon Bonaparte: The human race is governed by its imagination. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: IMAGINATION
Napoleon Bonaparte: There are two levers for moving men—interest and fear. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: LEADERSHIP, MOTIVATION
Napoleon Bonaparte: What are circumstances? I make circumstances. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: CIRCUMSTANCES, SELF-RELIANCE
Napoleon Bonaparte: What is history but a fable that is agreed upon? (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821) Categories: HISTORY, FABLES
Nash, Ogden: Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971) Categories: COMMITMENT, FRIENDSHIP
Nash, Ogden: Old age begins the day your descendants outnumber your friends. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971) Categories: AGING, DESCENDENTS
Nash, Ogden: People who work sitting down generally get paid more than people who work standing up. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971) Categories: PROFESSIONS, WORK
Nash, Ogden: Purity is obscurity. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971) Categories: PURITY
Nash, Ogden: Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971) Categories: INHERITANCE, MONEY
Nash, Ogden: Some tortures are physical / And some are mental / But the one that is both / Is dental. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971) Categories: DENTISTRY
Nash, Ogden: The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971) Categories: FACTS, PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY
Nash, Ogden: There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971) Categories: CONSCIENCE, HAPPINESS
Nashe, Thomas: Garlic makes a man wink, drink, and stink. (Thomas Nashe: English playwright, poet, satirist, and pamphleteer, 1567-1601) Categories: GARLIC
Nasu, Goi: An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you. (Goi Nasu: Japanese author) Categories: DEPRESSION, NEGATIVITY
Nathan, George J.: Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. (George J. Nathan: U.S. drama critic, author, and editor of literary magazines, 1882-1958) Categories: POLITICS, VOTING
Nathan, George J.: Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. (George J. Nathan: U.S. drama critic, author, and editor of literary magazines, 1882-1958) Categories: PATRIOTISM, PRINCIPLES
Native American Proverb: Do not judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. (Native American Proverb: ) Categories: EMPATHY, JUDGMENT
Native American Proverb: Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf. (Native American Proverb: ) Categories: LISTENING
Native American Proverb: Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand. (Native American Proverb: ) Categories: COMMUNICATION, LEARNING, TEACHING
Native American Proverb: The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears (Native American Proverb: ) Categories: SENSES, SOUL
Native American Proverb: We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. (Native American Proverb: ) Categories: ENVIRONMENT
Neal, John: A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. (John Neal: U.S. architect, lawyer, author, and art critic, 1793-1876)) Categories: OPPOSITION
Neale, John: Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow. (John Neale: Former British professional footballer who also played for the Republic of Ireland where he finished top scorer, Born 1966) Categories: HEALTH, TEMPERANCE
Needham, Richard J.: People are like birds—from a distance, beautiful; from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes. (Richard J. Needham: Canadian humor columnist, 1912-1996) Categories: APPEARANCE
Needham, Richard J.: When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem. (Richard J. Needham: Canadian humor columnist, 1912-1996) Categories: MONEY
Needham, Richard J.: You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being. (Richard J. Needham: Canadian humor columnist, 1912-1996) Categories: MARRIAGE
Negro Proverb: You've got to be twice as good to get half as far. (Negro Proverb: ) Categories: COMPETITION, OPPRESSION, RACISM
Nehru, Jawaharal: Almost always religion seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests. (Jawaharal Nehru: India's first Prime Minister as a secular democratic republic, one who was a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence, 1889-1964) Categories: OPPRESSION, RELIGION
Nehru, Jawaharal: I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. (Jawaharal Nehru: India's first Prime Minister as a secular democratic republic, one who was a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence, 1889-1964) Categories: RELIGION
Nehru, Jawaharal: Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism. The way you play it is free will. (Jawaharal Nehru: India's first Prime Minister as a secular democratic republic, one who was a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence, 1889-1964) Categories: CHOICES, LIFE
Nehru, Jawaharal: The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. (Jawaharal Nehru: India's first Prime Minister as a secular democratic republic, one who was a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence, 1889-1964) Categories: CAPITALISM
Nehru, Jawaharal: There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear. (Jawaharal Nehru: India's first Prime Minister as a secular democratic republic, one who was a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence, 1889-1964) Categories: FEAR
Nelson, Harriet U.: Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. (Harriet U. Nelson: U.S. actress, best known for best known for her role on the sitcom 'The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet', 1909-1994) Categories: SELF-FORGIVENESS
Nelson, Horatio: I have only one eye. I have a right to be blind sometimes. (Horatio Nelson: British flag officer in the Royal Navy, 1759-1805) Categories: DISABILITIES, ACUITY
Nelson, Willie: When I started to count my blessings, my whole world turned around. (Willie Nelson: U.S. country music musician, actor, and activist, Born 1933)) Categories: GRATITUDE
Neruda, Pablo: Love is so short and forgetting is so long. (Pablo Neruda: Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1904-1973) Categories: LOVE
Neuharth, Allen H.: I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. (Allen H. Neuharth: U.S. businessman, author, columnist, and founder of 'USA Today,' 1924-2013) Categories: FAILURE, FEAR
Neuman, Alfred E.: Some people have minds like cement---all mixed up and permanently set. (Alfred E. Neuman: the fictitious mascot and cover-boy of the American humor magazine, “Mad.”) Categories: CLOSE-MINDEDNESS, OBSTINACY
Newbern, John W.: People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen; those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. (John W. Newbern: U.S. lawyer and Assistant District Attorney, 1910-1972) Categories:
Newell, Robert: Don't ever be afraid to admit you were wrong. It's like saying you're wiser today than you were yesterday. (Robert Newell: U.S. pioneer, fur trapper, and politician, 1807-1869) Categories: COMMUNICATION, SELF-EXPRESSION
Newhouse, Flower A.: Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability. (Flower A. Newhouse: U.S. Christian mystic and spiritual teacher, 1909-1994) Categories: FAILURE, PROCRASTINATION
Newman, Andrea: I love the male body; it’s better designed than the male mind. (Andrea Newman: English author and teacher, Born 1938) Categories: MALES
Newman, John H.: A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. (John H. Newman: Anglican priest, poet, theologian, and later a Catholic cardinal, 1801-1890) Categories: EXPECTATIONS, GOALS
Newman, John H.: Faith . . . acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence. (John H. Newman: Anglican priest, poet, theologian, and later a Catholic cardinal, 1801-1890) Categories: FAITH
Newman, John H.: Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning. (John H. Newman: Anglican priest, poet, theologian, and later a Catholic cardinal, 1801-1890) Categories: FEAR
Newman, John H.: To live is to change, and to be growing is to have changed often. (John H. Newman: Anglican priest, poet, theologian, and later a Catholic cardinal, 1801-1890) Categories: CHANGE, MATURATION
Newton, Isaac: If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient observation than to any other reason. (Isaac Newton: English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution, 1642-1727) Categories: DISCOVERY, OBSERVATION, PATIENCE
Newton, Isaac: If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. (Isaac Newton: English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution, 1642-1727) Categories: SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY, ACHIEVEMENT, ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Newton, Isaac: Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. (Isaac Newton: English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution, 1642-1727) Categories: CLOSE-MINDEDNESS, WALLS, BRIDGES
Ng, Celeste: Anger is fear’s bodyguard. (Celeste Ng: U.S. writer and novelist who has released many short stories that have been published in a variety of literary journals, Born 1980) Categories: ANGER, FEAR
Nicholson, Jack: My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch. (Jack Nicholson: U.S. actor and filmmaker whose career spanned more than 50 years,Born 1937) Categories: MOTHERHOOD
Nicolle, Charles: Chance favors only those who know how to court her. (Charles Nicolle: French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus, 1866-1936) Categories: CHANCE
Niebuhr, Reinhold: God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other. (Reinhold Niebuhr: U.S. theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1892-1971) Categories: CHANGE
Niebuhr, Reinhold: Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. (Reinhold Niebuhr: U.S. theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1892-1971) Categories: JUSTICE, DEMOCRACY
Niebuhr, Reinhold: The role of religion should be to inculcate a sense not of infallibility but of humility. (Reinhold Niebuhr: U.S. theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1892-1971) Categories: HUMILITY, RELIGION
Nielsen, Helen: A worried man could borrow a lot of trouble with practically no collateral. (Helen Nielsen: U.S. author of mysteries and television scripts for dramas, 1918-2002) Categories: WORRY
Nielsen, Helen: Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows. (Helen Nielsen: U.S. author of mysteries and television scripts for dramas, 1918-2002) Categories: HUMILITY, MODESTY
Niemoller, Martin: First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - for I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out - for I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out. (Martin Niemoller: German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor, 1892-1984) Categories: SILENCE, COWARDICE
Nietzsche, Friedrich: A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: FRIENDSHIPS, PRIVACY
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Belief in form, but disbelief in content—that's what makes an aphorism charming. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: APHORISMS, WIT
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: BELIEFS, CONVICTIONS
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: PUNISHMENT
Nietzsche, Friedrich: For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: INSPIRATION, TEMPTATION, VULNERABILITY
Nietzsche, Friedrich: He who has a 'why' to live for can bear almost any 'how'. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: CURIOSITY
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Hold a true friend with both hands. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: FRIENDSHIP
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: HOPE
Nietzsche, Friedrich: I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite—the unconditional will to say "No," where it is dangerous to say "No". (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: LIBERTY
Nietzsche, Friedrich: In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: HEAVEN
Nietzsche, Friedrich: It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: GREATNESS, LEADERSHIP, LEGACIES
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: ENEMIES
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him? (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: ACHIEVEMENT, HUMANKIND
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: NECESSITY, OPINIONS
Nietzsche, Friedrich: No one can build you a bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: INITIATIVE, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: RESENTMENT
Nietzsche, Friedrich: On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: PERSEVERANCE, TRUTH
Nietzsche, Friedrich: One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: MEMORY, PROMISES
Nietzsche, Friedrich: One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: IMMORTALITY
Nietzsche, Friedrich: One must want to experience the great problems with one’s body and one’s soul. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: COMMISERATION, CONSCIENCE, MORALITY, SELF-AWARENESS
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: IDEAS, THOUGHT
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Punishment hardens and numbs . . . . It sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: PUNISHMENT
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Suffering is the origin of consciousness. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: AWARENESS, PERCEPTION, SUFFERING
Nietzsche, Friedrich: That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: CHALLENGES
Nietzsche, Friedrich: The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: MEMORY
Nietzsche, Friedrich: The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: ERRORS, SOURCES
Nietzsche, Friedrich: The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: INDIVIDUALISM, SELF-AWARENESS
Nietzsche, Friedrich: The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: CONFORMITY, DIVERSITY
Nietzsche, Friedrich: There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: FACTS, TRUTH
Nietzsche, Friedrich: They who dance are thought to be insane by those who hear not the music. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: BIAS, CRITICISM, JUDGMENT, MISPERCEPTION
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Those who have a why or what to live for can bear almost any how. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: COMMITMENT, CURIOSITY, OPPORTUNITY, PASSION
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Two great European narcotics: alcohol and Christianity. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: CHRISTIANITY, NARCOTICS, ALCOHOL
Nietzsche, Friedrich: We have art so that we shall not die of reality. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: ART
Nietzsche, Friedrich: What does not destroy me, makes me strong. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: CHALLENGES, STRENGTH, SURVIVAL
Nietzsche, Friedrich: What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: GENERATIONS, PARENTHOOD
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself? (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: REPUTATION, SELF-IMAGE
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: WIT
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Without music, life would be a mistake. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: MUSIC
Nietzsche, Friedrich: You must have uncertainty, confusion, chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900) Categories: PIETY
Nigerian Proverb: Hold a true friend with both your hands. (Nigerian Proverb: ) Categories: FRIENDSHIP
Nightingale, Florence: Every woman is a nurse. (Florence Nightingale: English social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing, 1820-1910) Categories: WOMEN, NURSES
Nightingale, Florence: How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. (Florence Nightingale: English social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing, 1820-1910) Categories: FEAR
Nightingale, Florence: Mankind must make heaven before we can 'go to heaven.’ (Florence Nightingale: English social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing, 1820-1910) Categories: HEAVEN
Nightingale, Florence: The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. (Florence Nightingale: English social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing, 1820-1910) Categories: MEDICINE
Nightingale, Florence: Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. (Florence Nightingale: English social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing, 1820-1910) Categories: DISCONTENT, PROGRESS
Nin, Anais: And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977) Categories: COURAGE, SELF-CONFIDENCE
Nin, Anais: Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977) Categories: BRAVERY, COURAGE
Nin, Anais: People living deeply have no fear of death. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977) Categories: DEATH, FEAR
Nin, Anais: The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977) Categories: JOY, PAIN
Nin, Anais: The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977) Categories: WRITING
Nin, Anais: There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977) Categories: IMAGINATION
Nin, Anais: Throw your dream into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977) Categories: DREAMS, EXPLORATION
Nin, Anais: We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977) Categories: PERCEPTION, REALITY
Nin, Anais: We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977) Categories:
Nin, Anais: Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator; she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977) Categories: WOMEN
Nixon, Richard: When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. (Richard Nixon: U.S. politician who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 until his resignation in 1974, the only U.S. president to resign from the office, 1913-1994) Categories: PRESIDENCY (U.S.A.)
Nizer, Louis: A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. (Louis Nizer: U.S. lawyer, author, artist, lecturer, and advisor to those in the worlds of politics, business, and entertainment, 1902-1994) Categories: ARTISTS, CRAFTSMEN, LABORERS
Nizer, Louis: Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them. (Louis Nizer: U.S. lawyer, author, artist, lecturer, and advisor to those in the worlds of politics, business, and entertainment, 1902-1994) Categories: COMMUNICATION, IGNORANCE, NAIVETE, VULNERABILITY
Nizer, Louis: True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. (Louis Nizer: U.S. lawyer, author, artist, lecturer, and advisor to those in the worlds of politics, business, and entertainment, 1902-1994) Categories: RELIGION
Norballe, Merete: Mirrors are not what they used to be. (Merete Norballe: Danish-French educational administrator, psychologist, and commentator, Born 1934) Categories: AGING, APPEARANCE, MIRRORS
Norris, Kathleen: In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. (Kathleen Norris: U.S. award-winning novelist and columnist, 1880-1966) Categories: FREEDOM, LIBERTY
Norris, Kathleen: There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city. (Kathleen Norris: U.S. award-winning novelist and columnist, 1880-1966) Categories: CITIES, SOLITUDE
Northcote, James: Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt. (James Northcote: English actor and producer, Born 1987) Categories: FEAR, INITIATIVE
Norton, Eleanor H.: There’s no reason to repeat bad history. (Eleanor H. Norton: U.S. politician serving as a non-voting Delegate to the U.S House of Representatives, representing the District of Columbia, Born 1937) Categories: HISTORY
Nowlan, Alden: The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. (Alden Nowlan: Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright, 1933-1983) Categories: MATURATION
Nye, Joseph: If even one percent of our defense budget were given to diplomacy, it would quadruple the amount we are currently spending on diplomacy. (Joseph Nye: U.S. political scientist and author of "Soft Power," Born 1937) Categories: DIPLOMACY, MILITARY, BUDGETING (U.S.A.)