Sachs, Jonathan: Religion is at its best when it relies on the strength of argument; it is at its worst when it seeks to impose truth by force. (Jonathan Sachs: British rabbi, philosopher, and scholar, Born 1948) Categories: RELIGION

Sachs, Jonathan: When religion turns men into murderers, God weeps. Too often in the history of religion, people have killed in the name of the God of life, waged war in the name of the God of peace, hated in the name of the God of love, and practical cruelty in the name of the God of compassion. (Jonathan Sachs: British rabbi, philosopher, and scholar, Born 1948) Categories: GOD, RELIGION

Sacks, Oliver: Memories are . . . disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection. (Oliver Sacks: British-U.S. neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer, 1933-2015) Categories: MEMORY, PAST

Sadat, Anwar: He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality. (Anwar Sadat: Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt until his assassination, 1918-1981) Categories: ONE-SIDEDNESS, STUBBORNNESS

Safa, Mohamad: People aren’t going hungry because we cannot feed the poor. People are going hungry because we cannot satisfy the rich. (Mohamad Safa: Lebanese Diplomat and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Born 1991) Categories: ECONOMICS

Safire, William: When you’re through changing, learning, working to stay involved—only then are you through. (William Safire: U.S. presidential speechwriter and author of language-related topics, 1929-2009) Categories: LIFESPAN

Sagan, Carl: For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner . . . on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of more than 100 billion galaxies. . . . That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit. (Carl Sagan: U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996) Categories: EARTH, UNIVERSE

Sagan, Carl: Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. (Carl Sagan: U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996) Categories: POWER

Sagan, Carl: Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. (Carl Sagan: U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996) Categories: SCIENCE, SPIRITUALITY

Sagan, Carl: There are more than 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, our galaxy. There are somewhere between 100 and 200 billion such galaxies in the universe, and there are many universes. (Carl Sagan: U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996) Categories: GALAXIES, UNIVERSE

Sagan, Carl: While some dolphins are reported to have learned English—up to fifty words used in correct context—no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. (Carl Sagan: U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996) Categories: LANGUAGE

Sagan, Francoise: I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. (Francoise Sagan: French playwright and novelist, 1935-2004) Categories: WRITING

Sagan, Ginetta: Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor. (Ginetta Sagan: Italian-born American human rights activist best known for her work with Amnesty International on behalf of prisoners of conscience, 1925-2000) Categories: SILENCE, COMPLICITY

St. Anthony of Padua: Actions speak louder than words. (St. Anthony of Padua: Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order, 1195-1231) Categories: ACTION, COMMUNICATION, WORDS

St. Augustine: Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. (St. Augustine: Roman African, early Christian theologian and whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy, 354-430 A.D.) Categories: CHARITY, JUSTICE

St. Augustine: Faith is to believe what we do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. (St. Augustine: Roman African, early Christian theologian and whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy, 354-430 A.D.) Categories: BELIEFS, FAITH

St. Augustine: It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error. (St. Augustine: Roman African, early Christian theologian and whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy, 354-430 A.D.) Categories: ERRORS, WILLFULNESS

St. Augustine: The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page. (St. Augustine: Roman African, early Christian theologian and whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy, 354-430 A.D.) Categories: BOOKS, TRAVEL

St. Bartholomew: Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you. (St. Bartholomew: Patron saint of farmers, leather workers, and other craftsmen) Categories: SELF-AWARENESS, SUB-CONSCIOUSNESS

St. Catherine of Siena: Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find. (St. Catherine of Siena: Italian laywoman, mystic, and theologian, canonized as a saint who is revered as one of the most influential women in the history of the Catholic Church, 1347-1380) Categories: SELF-DISCOVERY

St. Chrysostom: The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. (St. Chrysostom: Archbishop of Constantinople, an important Early Church Father, known for his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, 349-407 A.D.) Categories: BEES, CONTRIBUTIONS

St. Chrysostom: The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much. (St. Chrysostom: Archbishop of Constantinople, an important Early Church Father, known for his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, 349-407 A.D.) Categories: GIVINGNESS, WEALTH

Saint-Expery, Antoine de: A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944) Categories: IMAGINATION, PERCEPTION

Saint-Expery, Antoine de: A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944) Categories: LIFE, REINCARNATION

Saint-Expery, Antoine de: Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944) Categories: COMMUNICATION, YOUTH

Saint-Expery, Antoine de: Happy are those who dream dreams and who are ready to pay the price to make them come true. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944) Categories: DREAMS, INITIATIVE, PERSEVERANCE

Saint-Expery, Antoine de: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944) Categories: COMMUNICATION, HEART, PERCEPTION

Saint-Expery, Antoine de: It’s madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944) Categories: CLOSE-MINDEDNESS, PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY

Saint-Expery, Antoine de: Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944) Categories: LOVE, SHARING

Saint-Expery, Antoine de: Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944) Categories: LOVE

Saint-Expery, Antoine de: Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures—in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944) Categories: COMMUNICATION, MEDIA, MAIL

Saint-Expery, Antoine de: You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944) Categories: CONNECTIONS, RELATIONSHIPS

St. Francis of Assisi: Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand. (St. Francis of Assisi: Italian Catholic deacon, preacher, and as a saint is one of the most venerated religious figures in history, 1181-1226) Categories: UNDERSTANDING

St. Francis of Assisi: It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. (St. Francis of Assisi: Italian Catholic deacon, preacher, and as a saint is one of the most venerated religious figures in history, 1181-1226) Categories: FORGIVENESS, PARDONING

St. Francis of Assisi: Preach the Gospel at all times and, when necessary, use words. (St. Francis of Assisi: Italian Catholic deacon, preacher, and as a saint is one of the most venerated religious figures in history, 1181-1226) Categories: COMMUNICATION, ROLE MODELS

St. Francis of Assisi: Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. (St. Francis of Assisi: Italian Catholic deacon, preacher, and as a saint is one of the most venerated religious figures in history, 1181-1226) Categories: INGENUITY, POSSIBILITIES

St. Francis of Assisi: The art of negotiation is better than the strategy of war. (St. Francis of Assisi: Italian Catholic deacon, preacher, and as a saint is one of the most venerated religious figures in history, 1181-1226) Categories: NEGOTIATION

St. Jerome: Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse. (St. Jerome: Dalmatian Roman Catholic priest best known for his translation of most of the "Bible" into Latin 347-420) Categories: CHARITY

St. Jerome: When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. (St. Jerome: Dalmatian Roman Catholic priest best known for his translation of most of the "Bible" into Latin 347-420) Categories: FASTING

St. Jerome: You censure with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary. (St. Jerome: Dalmatian Roman Catholic priest best known for his translation of most of the "Bible" into Latin 347-420) Categories: CENSORSHIP, HABITS

Saint John Perse: The only menace is inertia. (Saint John Perse: French poet, writer, and diplomat who was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1887-1975) Categories: INERTIA, MENACE

Saint-Laurent, Yves: Fashions fade—style is eternal. (Yves Saint-Laurent: French business designer who is regarded as among the foremost fashion designers in the twentieth century, 1936-2008) Categories: FASHION, STYLE

St. Stanislaus: To end with certainty, we must begin with doubting. (St. Stanislaus: Polish, catholic bishop, 1030-1079) Categories: CERTAINTY, DOUBT

Saint Teresa of Avila: To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that. (Saint Teresa of Avila: Spanish Carmelite nun and prominent mystic and religious reformer, 1515-1582) Categories: COURAGE

Salanter, Israel: Writing is one of the easiest things; erasing is one of the hardest. (Israel Salanter: Lithuanian-German rabbi and leader of the Musar movement in Orthodox Judaism, 1810-1873) Categories: WRITING, ERASING

Salinger, J. D.: I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. (J. D. Salinger: U.S. writer, known for his widely-read novel, "The Catcher in the Rye," 1919-2010) Categories: PARANOIA

Salk, Jonas: Are we being good ancestors? (Jonas Salk: U.S. This has happened before. The mail seems go be flaky. Please send me her address again and I’ll stop and replace the check. Sorry about that. Don On May 23, 2023, at 8:29 PM, Elaine Haglund <elaine.haglund@csulb.edu> wrote: Hi, Don, As it turns out, my friend, Dr. Pamela Roberts, has not yet received the check that you said was sent (per your message below). Do you think there was some problem with the address or whatever? Thanks for whatever you might suggest. U.S. virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines, 1914-1995) Categories: ENVIRONMENTALISM, POSTERITY

Salk, Jonas: The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. (Jonas Salk: U.S. This has happened before. The mail seems go be flaky. Please send me her address again and I’ll stop and replace the check. Sorry about that. Don On May 23, 2023, at 8:29 PM, Elaine Haglund <elaine.haglund@csulb.edu> wrote: Hi, Don, As it turns out, my friend, Dr. Pamela Roberts, has not yet received the check that you said was sent (per your message below). Do you think there was some problem with the address or whatever? Thanks for whatever you might suggest. U.S. virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines, 1914-1995) Categories: ACCOMPLISHMENTS, REWARDS

Salvatore, R. A.: With the honest knowledge that one day I will die can I ever truly begin to live. (R. A. Salvatore: U.S. author, Born 1959) Categories: DEATH, SELF-AWARENESS

Salvay, David: The older you are, the more like yourself you become. (David Salvay: U.S. ophthalmologist, Born 1978) Categories: AGING, MATURING

Sami Proverb: Water that does not move is always shallow. (Sami Proverb: ) Categories: ACTION, ACTIVITY

Samuelson, Paul: Investing should be like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement . . . go to Las Vegas. (Paul Samuelson: U.S. economist who was the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1915-2009) Categories: INVENTION, INVESTMENT

Sanchez, Carlos A.: If anything is certain, it’s uncertainty. (Carlos A. Sanchez: U.S. Professor of Philosophy, San Jose State University) Categories: CERTAINTY

Sanchez, Carlos A.: Insecurity and crisis are our default — states of our being. Carlos A. Sanchez, U.S. writer and professor of Philosophy. (Carlos A. Sanchez: U.S. Professor of Philosophy, San Jose State University) Categories: CRISIS, INSECURITY, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Sand, George: Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. (George Sand: French novelist, memoirist, and journalist, 1804-1876) Categories: CONSCIENCE, RULES, SOCIETY

Sandburg, Carl: A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. (Carl Sandburg: U.S. poet, biographer, journalist, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967) Categories: BABIES

Sandburg, Carl: Love your neighbor as yourself, but don't take down the fence. (Carl Sandburg: U.S. poet, biographer, journalist, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967) Categories: NEIGHBORS

Sandburg, Carl: Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment. (Carl Sandburg: U.S. poet, biographer, journalist, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967) Categories: POETRY

Sandburg, Carl: Slang is language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands—and goes to work. (Carl Sandburg: U.S. poet, biographer, journalist, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967) Categories: LANGUAGE, SLANG

Sandburg, Carl: Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. (Carl Sandburg: U.S. poet, biographer, journalist, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967) Categories: PEACE, WAR

Sandburg, Carl: Time is the coin of your life. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. (Carl Sandburg: U.S. poet, biographer, journalist, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967) Categories: TIME

Sandburg, Sheryl: Done is better than perfect. (Sheryl Sandburg: U.S. technology executive, philanthropist, and writer, Born 1969) Categories: ACCOMPLISHMENTS, PERFECTIONISM

Sanders, Red: Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. (Red Sanders: ) Categories: WINNING

Sanfilippo, David: Students tend not to care about how much a professor knows until they know how much he/she cares. (David Sanfilippo: U.S. college administrator) Categories: TEACHING

Sanger, Margaret: No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. (Margaret Sanger: U.S. birth-control activist, sex-educator, writer, and nurse who opened the first birth-control clinic in the U.S. and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 1879-1966) Categories: ABORTION, WOMEN

Sangster, Margaret E.: Self-complacency is fatal to progress. (Margaret E. Sangster: U.S. author, 1838-1912) Categories: SELF-COMPLACENCY

Santana, Carlos: The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. (Carlos Santana: Mexican and American guitarist who pioneered a fusion of rock and roll and Latin American jazz, Born 1947) Categories: ACTIVISM, PEACE

Santayana, George: A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952) Categories: EXPLORATION, HUMANKIND, INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, PERCEPTION

Santayana, George: Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952) Categories: APHORISMS, OPPOSITES

Santayana, George: Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952) Categories: RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

Santayana, George: Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952) Categories: FANATICISM, EXTREMISM

Santayana, George: Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952) Categories: AWARENESS, KNOWLEDGE, POSSIBILITIES

Santayana, George: Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952) Categories: POETS, STORYTELLING

Santayana, George: Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out, and minutely articulated. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952) Categories: SCIENCE

Santayana, George: The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952) Categories: EDUCATION, LEARNING

Santayana, George: There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952) Categories: LIFESPAN

Santayana, George: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952) Categories: HISTORY, MEMORY, PAST

Santayana, George: To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952) Categories: WAR

Santayana, George: What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952) (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952) Categories: BEHAVIOR, BELIEFS, FAMILY

Sapir, Edward: Language is an anonymous, collective, and unconscious art—the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. (Edward Sapir: U.S. anthropologist and linguist, 1884-1939) Categories: LANGUAGE

Sapir, Richard B.: Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. (Richard B. Sapir: U.S. novelist, 1936-1987) Categories: TIME, TRIVIA

Saroyan, William: Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. (William Saroyan: Award-winning Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer, 1908-1981) Categories: FAILURE, GOODNESS, WISDOM

Saroyan, William: The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. (William Saroyan: Award-winning Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer, 1908-1981) Categories: HAPPINESS

Sarton, Mary: Most people have to talk so they won't hear. (Mary Sarton: U.S. poet, novelist and memoirist who is lauded by literary and feminist critics for her works addressing themes in gender, sexuality, and universality, 1912-1995) Categories: COMMUNICATION

Sarton, Mary: Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another. (Mary Sarton: U.S. poet, novelist and memoirist who is lauded by literary and feminist critics for her works addressing themes in gender, sexuality, and universality, 1912-1995) Categories: LONELINESS, SOLITUDE

Sartre, John-Paul: Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. (John-Paul Sartre: French philosopher, writer, and literary critic, 1905-1980) Categories: FREEDOM, SUFFERING

Sartre, John-Paul: Life begins on the other side of despair. (John-Paul Sartre: French philosopher, writer, and literary critic, 1905-1980) Categories: DESPAIR, REFORM

Sartre, John-Paul: Love is a battle in which two free subjects each try to get hold of the other’s freedom while at the same time trying to free themselves from the hold of the other. (John-Paul Sartre: French philosopher, writer, and literary critic, 1905-1980) Categories: LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS

Sartre, John-Paul: Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. (John-Paul Sartre: French philosopher, writer, and literary critic, 1905-1980) Categories: DEFEAT, VICTORY

Sartre, John-Paul: When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. (John-Paul Sartre: French philosopher, writer, and literary critic, 1905-1980) Categories: INEQUITY, WAR

Sartre, John-Paul: Words are loaded pistols. (John-Paul Sartre: French philosopher, writer, and literary critic, 1905-1980) Categories: COMMUNICATION, WORDS

Satir, Virginia: I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. (Virginia Satir: U.S. psychotherapist and author, 1916-1988) Categories: COMMUNICATION, SENSITIVITY

Satir, Virginia: The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person. (Virginia Satir: U.S. psychotherapist and author, 1916-1988) Categories: GIVING, RELATIONSHIPS

Satoro, Ryunosuke: Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. (Ryunosuke Satoro: Japanese writer who is regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story", 1892-1927) Categories: COOPERATION, TEAMWORK

Satten, Dorothy B.: A friend is someone who sees right through and likes the show. (Dorothy B. Satten: U.S. author and psychotherapist, 1932-2013) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Saussure, Ferdinand de: Time changes all things: there is no reason why language should escape this universal law. (Ferdinand de Saussure: Swiss linguist and semiotician, 1857-1913) Categories: CHANGE, LANGUAGE, TIME

SAVANT, MARILYN V.: The essence of our America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between “to” and freedom “from.” (MARILYN V. SAVANT: U.S. columnist, author, and company executive who has the highest recorded intelligence quotient in the Guinness Book of Records, Born 1946) Categories: FREEDOM (U.S.A.), RELIGION (U.S.A.)

Sayers, Dorothy: A trouble shared is halved. (Dorothy Sayers: English crime writer and poet, 1893-1957) Categories: COMMUNICATION, TROUBLES

Schaef, Anne W.: Good health is not something we can buy, but it can be an extremely valuable savings account. (Anne W. Schaef: U.S. author, speaker, consultant, and seminar leader, Born 1935) Categories: HEALTH

Schaef, Anne W.: I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive. (Anne W. Schaef: U.S. author, speaker, consultant, and seminar leader, Born 1935) Categories: HUMOR

Schaef, Anne W.: Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order. (Anne W. Schaef: U.S. author, speaker, consultant, and seminar leader, Born 1935) Categories: PERFECTIONISM

Schelling, Thomas: One thing a person cannot do, no matter how rigorous his analysis or heroic his imagination, is to draw up a list of things that would never occur to him. (Thomas Schelling: U.S. economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control, 1921-2016) Categories: PREDICTABILITY, NON-AWARENESS

Schiff, Miriam: On the human chessboard, all moves are possible. (Miriam Schiff: U.S. journalist and film director of the 'Vagina Monologues') Categories: POSSIBILITIES, GOALS

Schiller, Friedrich: Against stupidity the very gods / Themselves contend in vain. (Friedrich Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805) Categories: STUPIDITY

Schiller, Friedrich: Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder-storm is to the air. (Friedrich Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805) Categories: DISAPPOINTMENT

Schiller, Friedrich: Honor women! They entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life. (Friedrich Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805) Categories: WOMEN

Schiller, Friedrich: Taste is the finer impulse of our nature. (Friedrich Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805) Categories: TASTE

Schiller, Friedrich: The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself. (Friedrich Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805) Categories: HUMOR, JOKES

Schiller, Friedrich: War nourishes war. (Friedrich Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805) Categories: WAR

Schinz, Maria: Gardening is an exercise in optimism. (Maria Schinz: German photographer) Categories: GARDENING

Schlaggenberg, Kejetan von: Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself. (Kejetan von Schlaggenberg: Austrian writer) Categories: MATURITY

Schlesinger, Arthur Jr.: Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer. (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: U.S. historian, social critic, public intellectual, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 1917-2007) Categories: QUESTIONS-ANSWERS, RESEARCH

Schlesinger, Arthur Jr.: The future outwits all our certitudes. (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: U.S. historian, social critic, public intellectual, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 1917-2007) Categories: CERTITUDE, FUTURE

Schlesinger, Arthur Jr.: The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office. (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: U.S. historian, social critic, public intellectual, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 1917-2007) Categories: IMPEACHMENT

Schlessinger, Laura: Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. (Laura Schlessinger: U.S. talk radio host, author, and an inductee to the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, Born 1947) Categories: EXPECTATIONS, FRUSTRATION, WILLFULNESS

Schlessinger, Laura: There is no movement without our own resistance. (Laura Schlessinger: U.S. talk radio host, author, and an inductee to the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, Born 1947) Categories: PROTEST

Schnabel, Arthur: The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes—ah, that is where the art resides! (Arthur Schnabel: Austrian-American classical pianist, composer, and pedagogue who was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, 1882-1951) Categories: MUSIC, PIANISTS

Schneider, Diana: Optimism is an intellectual choice. (Diana Schneider: German singer and entertainer) Categories: CHOICES, OPTIMISM

Schoeder, Caroline: Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. (Caroline Schoeder: U.S. writer of aphorisms, Born 1971) Categories: ALTERNATIVES, ATTITUDE, BEHAVIOR, CHANGE, MOTIVATION

Scholl, Sophia: Stand up for what you believe in, even if you're standing alone. (Sophia Scholl: German student and anti-Nazi political activist who was convicted of high treason, 1921-1943)) Categories: CONVICTIONS, PRINCIPLES

Schopenhauer, Arthur: He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860) Categories: ADJUSTMENTS, ACCEPTIVITY

Schopenhauer, Arthur: Men are the devils of the earth and the animals are its tormented souls. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860) Categories: ANIMALS

Schopenhauer, Arthur: Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860) Categories: PRIDE, SELF-RESPECT

Schopenhauer, Arthur: Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860) Categories: GENIUS, TALENT

Schopenhauer, Arthur: The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860) Categories: AGING

Schopenhauer, Arthur: The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860) Categories: AGING, MATURATION

Schopenhauer, Arthur: The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860) Categories: CHARACTER, WILLFULNESS

Schopenhauer, Arthur: To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860) Categories: MARRIAGE

Schopenhauer, Arthur: With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860) Categories: MODESTY

Schreiner, Olive: Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down. (Olive Schreiner: South African author, anti-war campaigner, and intellectual, 1856-1920) Categories: AWARENESS

Schubert, Franz: No one really understands the grief or joy of another. (Franz Schubert: Austrian composer who despite his short lifetime, left behind a vast collection, including more than 600 secular vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, and a large body of piano and chamber music, 1797-1828) Categories: EMPATHY, SENSITIVITY

Schuller, Robert H.: Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the apples in one seed. (Robert H. Schuller: Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and author, principally known for his weekly ‘Hour of Power’ television program, 1926-2015) Categories: GOD

Schuller, Robert H.: Problems are not stop signs; they are guidelines. (Robert H. Schuller: Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and author, principally known for his weekly ‘Hour of Power’ television program, 1926-2015) Categories: CHALLENGES, PROBLEMS

Schultz, Peter: Hire character. Train skill. (Peter Schultz: U.S. chemist, professor, and the founding director of the California Institute for Biomedical Research, Born 1956) Categories: CHARACTER, MANAGEMENT

Schultz, Peter: Hire character. Train skill. (Peter Schultz: U.S. chemist, professor, and the founding director of the California Institute for Biomedical Research, Born 1956) Categories: CHARACTER, MANAGEMENT

Schulz, Charles: Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. (Charles Schulz: U.S. cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Peanuts. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time, 1922-2000) Categories: SIBLINGS

Schulz, Charles: Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. (Charles Schulz: U.S. cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Peanuts. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time, 1922-2000) Categories: INTERESTS, LIFE

Schulz, Kathryn: The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't (Kathryn Schulz: U.S. journalist and author won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, Born 1974) Categories: FORESIGHT, IMAGINATION, PERCEPTION

Schurz, Carl: We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit. (Carl Schurz: German revolutionary who became a U.S. statesman, reformer, and served as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1829-1906) Categories: LOYALTY, RESISTANCE, TREASON, SUBMISSION

Schwab, Charles: The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. (Charles Schwab: U.S. investor, founder and chairman of the Charles Schwab Corporation, Born 1937) Categories: CONFORMITY, SELF-IDENTITY

Schwartz, Janet: I don't like the fact that doctors are referred to as practicing. (Janet Schwartz: U.S. family physician) Categories: MEDICINE

Schwarzenegger, Arnold: Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them. (Arnold Schwarzenegger: Austrian-American actor, businessman, and former politician who served as the 38th governor of California, Born 1987) Categories: DREAMS, INITIATIVE, LIFE, PURSUITS

Schweitzer, Albert: A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965) Categories: MORALITY

Schweitzer, Albert: Compassion . . . can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965) Categories: COMPASSION, HUMANKIND, UNIVERSE

Schweitzer, Albert: In the hopes of reaching the moon, men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965) Categories: GOALS, NATURE, PERCEPTION

Schweitzer, Albert: Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965) Categories: GOODNESS

Schweitzer, Albert: Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965) Categories: GRATITUDE, MENTORS, RENEWAL

Schweitzer, Albert: Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965) Categories: HAPPINESS, SUCCESS

Schweitzer, Albert: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965) Categories: SERVICE

Schweitzer, Albert: The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965) Categories: INACTIVISM

Schwindt, Angela: While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. (Angela Schwindt: U.S. mother and unicyclist coach) Categories: PARENTING

Scolavino, William F.: The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. (William F. Scolavino: U.S. inventor of the polaroid land camera, 1954-2019) Categories: ACCOMPLISHMENTS, CONVICTIONS

Scott, Evelyn: A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all. (Evelyn Scott: U.S. novelist, playwright, and poet, 1893-1963) Categories: BELIEFS, CONVICTIONS

Scott, Walter: Death—the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. (Walter Scott: Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian, 1771-1832) Categories: DEATH, AWAKENING

Scott, Walter: He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round. (Walter Scott: Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian, 1771-1832) Categories: PREPAREDNESS

Scott, Walter: Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. (Walter Scott: Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian, 1771-1832) Categories: HOPE

Scott, Walter: I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as "twas said to me." (Walter Scott: Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian, 1771-1832) Categories: TRUTH

Scott, Walter: O, what a tangled web we weave / when first we practice to deceive. (Walter Scott: Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian, 1771-1832) Categories: DECEPTION

Scott, Walter: The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact. (Walter Scott: Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian, 1771-1832) Categories: FRIENDSHIP, INTERACTION

Scottish Proverb: A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. (Scottish Proverb: ) Categories: CONSCIENCE, IGNORING

Scottish Proverb: Better bend than break. (Scottish Proverb: ) Categories: ADAPTABILITY, AGREEMENT

Scottish Proverb: Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight. (Scottish Proverb: ) Categories: IMMEDIACY

Scottish Proverb: Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. (Scottish Proverb: ) Categories: FRIENDS

Scottish Proverb: Give and take makes good friends. (Scottish Proverb: ) Categories: COMPROMISES, CONCESSIONS, FRIENDSHIPS

Scottish Proverb: He that comes first to the hill / May sit where he will. (Scottish Proverb: ) Categories: CLEVERNESS, PUNCTUALITY

Scott-Maxwell, Florida: No matter how old a mother is, she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. (Florida Scott-Maxwell: U.S. playwright, author and psychologist, 1883-1979) Categories: MOTHERHOOD

Scully, Frank: Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time. (Frank Scully: U.S. journalist, author, and humorist, 1892-1964) Categories: ARCHITECTURE

Scully, Frank: Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? (Frank Scully: U.S. journalist, author, and humorist, 1892-1964) Categories: POSSIBILITIES, RISK

Seaborg, Glenn T.: Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. (Glenn T. Seaborg: U.S. chemist whose research earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1912-1999) Categories: INTERDISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE

Seidman, Dov: When you hit the pause button on a computer, it stops, but when you press the pause button on a human being, it starts. (Dov Seidman: U.S. attorney, columnist, and C.E.O. of an ethics and compliance-management firm, Born 1964) Categories: INSPIRATION

Seneca (the Elder), Marcus S.: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. (Marcus S. Seneca (the Elder): Roman orator and writer, 54 B.C.E.—c. A.D. 39)) Categories: QUALITY

Seneca (the Elder), Marcus S.: No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him. (Marcus S. Seneca (the Elder): Roman orator and writer, 54 B.C.E.—c. A.D. 39)) Categories: CONCENTRATION, FOCUS, GOALS

Seneca (the Elder), Marcus S.: What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you. (Marcus S. Seneca (the Elder): Roman orator and writer, 54 B.C.E.—c. A.D. 39)) Categories: SELF-ACCEPTANCE, SELF-IDENTITY

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: SELF-ACCEPTANCE, SELF-IDENTITY

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: A man can refrain from wanting what he has not, and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: CONTENTMENT

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: A man is as miserable as he thinks he is. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: ATTITUDE, SELF-IDENTITY

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: All cruelty springs from weakness. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: CRUELTY, INSECURITY, WEAKNESS

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: HISTORY, WAR

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: CHANGE, FUTURE, HISTORY

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: FATE

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: He who has great power should use it lightly. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: POWER

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: DESTINATION, DIRECTION

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: FEARS

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: If you would wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: SECRECY

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: It is not the man who has little, but he who craves more, that is poor. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: POVERTY

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: LUCK, OPPORTUNITY

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: SELF-CONTROL

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: The great soul surrenders itself to fate. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: ACCEPTANCE, FATE

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: The greatest remedy for anger is delay. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: ANGER, DELAY

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: ECCENTRICITY, GENIUS

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives? (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: ANTICIPATION, WORRY

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: RETRIBUTION

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: We suffer more from imagination than reality. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: ANXIETY, FEAR, IMAGINATION, REALITY

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: DESTINATIONS, GOALS, PLANNING

Seneca (the Younger), Lucius A.: Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65) Categories: KINDNESS

Senegalese Proverb: It is better to find the way out than to stand and scream at the forest. (Senegalese Proverb: ) Categories: DECISIONS, PROBLEM-SOLVING

Sequr, Louis: Men make laws; women make manners. (Louis Sequr: French diplomat and historian, 1753-1830) Categories: GENDER

Serling, Rod: The tools of conquest do not necessarily come from bombs . . . . There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found in the minds of men. (Rod Serling: U.S. screenwriter and television producer who helped form television industry standards, 1924-1975) Categories: CONQUEST, PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY, WEAPONS

Service, Robert W.: A promise made is a debt unpaid. (Robert W. Service: British-Canadian poet and writer, often called 'the Bard of the Yukon,' 1874-1958) Categories: DEBTS, PROMISE, TRUST

Service, Robert W.: It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out—it's the grain of sand in your shoe. (Robert W. Service: British-Canadian poet and writer, often called 'the Bard of the Yukon,' 1874-1958) Categories: OBSTACLES, PERSPECTIVES

Setter, Maurice: Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. (Maurice Setter: English former soccer player and manager, Born 1936) Categories: EXPECTATIONS

Seuss, Theodore: Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. (Theodore Seuss: U.S. political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books [with pen name of Dr. Seuss], 1904-1991) Categories: CHARACTER, SELF-IDENTITY

Seuss, Theodore: Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. (Theodore Seuss: U.S. political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books [with pen name of Dr. Seuss], 1904-1991) Categories: APPRECIATION, REFLECTIONS, SADNESS

Seuss, Theodore: How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. (Theodore Seuss: U.S. political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books [with pen name of Dr. Seuss], 1904-1991) Categories: TIME

Seuss, Theodore: Why fit in when you were born to stand out? (Theodore Seuss: U.S. political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books [with pen name of Dr. Seuss], 1904-1991) Categories: CONFORMITY, INDIVIDUALITY

Seuss, Theodore: You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. (Theodore Seuss: U.S. political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books [with pen name of Dr. Seuss], 1904-1991) Categories: SELF-DETERMINATION

Sevareid, Eric: No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide. (Eric Sevareid: U.S. author and CBS news journalist, 1912-1992) Categories: CRIME, POVERTY, SUICIDE

Seventeenth Century Proverb: When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out the window. (Seventeenth Century Proverb: ) Categories: POVERTY, RELATIONSHIPS

Seward, William H.: As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practice or neglect to practice the primary duties of justice and humanity. (William H. Seward: U.S. politician who was a determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, 1801-1872) Categories: CORRUPTION, JUSTICE

Sewell, George: Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. (George Sewell: English actor, 1924-2007) Categories: CONSCIENCE, FEAR, GUILT

Shadwell, Thomas: I am, out of the ladies’ company, like a fish out of the water. (Thomas Shadwell: English poet and playwright who in 1689 was appointed Poet Laureate, 1642-1692) Categories: UNFAMILIARITY

Shakespeare, William: A friend should bear his friend's infirmities. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: FRIENDSHIP, INFIRMITIES

Shakespeare, William: Age, with his stealing steps / Hath clawed me in his clutch (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: AGING

Shakespeare, William: All that glitters is not gold. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: APPEARANCE, INACCURACIES

Shakespeare, William: All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: HUMANKIND

Shakespeare, William: All the world’s a stage. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: LIFE, ACTIVITIES, CYCLES, ROLES

Shakespeare, William: Brevity is the soul of wit. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: BREVITY, WIT

Shakespeare, William: Conscience does make cowards of us all. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: CONSCIENCE, COWARDICE

Shakespeare, William: Conscience makes cowards of us all. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: CONSCIENCE, RISK

Shakespeare, William: Discretion is the better part of valor. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: CAUTION, PRUDENCE

Shakespeare, William: Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: FATE, FORTUNE, LUCK, OPPORTUNITY

Shakespeare, William: Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: WIT

Shakespeare, William: Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: MODESTY

Shakespeare, William: He is well paid that is well satisfied. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: CONTENTMENT, SELF-SATISFACTION

Shakespeare, William: I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: PATIENCE, POVERTY

Shakespeare, William: I am disgrac'd, impeach'd, and baffled here, Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: SLANDER

Shakespeare, William: I count myself in nothing else so happy/ As in a soul remembering my good friends. (Shakespeare FRIENDS (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: FRIENDS

Shakespeare, William: If music be the language of love, play on. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: MUSIC

Shakespeare, William: Let us not burden our remembrances / With a heaviness that’s gone. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: MEMORY

Shakespeare, William: Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: BEHAVIOR, LIFE

Shakespeare, William: Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: LOVE, PERCEPTION

Shakespeare, William: Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: LOVE

Shakespeare, William: Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: PERSEVERANCE

Shakespeare, William: Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: DOUBT, WISDOM

Shakespeare, William: My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: COMMUNICATION, THOUGHT, WORDS

Shakespeare, William: Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: BORROWING, LENDING

Shakespeare, William: Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: AMBITION

Shakespeare, William: O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: SLEEP

Shakespeare, William: One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: NATURE

Shakespeare, William: Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: DOUBTS, FEARS

Shakespeare, William: Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: MEMORY, PRAISE

Shakespeare, William: Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind, (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: DECEITFULNESS, INSINCERITY

Shakespeare, William: Ships are but boards, sailors but men. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: VULNERABILITY, PIRACY

Shakespeare, William: Sigh no more, ladies . . . . Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore; To one thing constant never. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: UNFAITHFULNESS

Shakespeare, William: Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: SIN, VIRTUE

Shakespeare, William: Sweets to the sweet. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: EULOGY, FAIRWELL

Shakespeare, William: The better part of valor is discretion. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: DISCRETION, VALOR

Shakespeare, William: The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: IGNORANCE

Shakespeare, William: The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: FASHION

Shakespeare, William: The miserable have no medicine but hope. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: HOPE, MEDICINE

Shakespeare, William: The ripest fruit first falls. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: VULNERABILITY

Shakespeare, William: The world's mine oyster / Which I with sword will open. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: OPPORTUNITY, POSSIBILITIES

Shakespeare, William: There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: SELF-RELIANCE, WILL

Shakespeare, William: There's small choice in rotten apples. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: OPTIONS

Shakespeare, William: These blessed candles of the night. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: STARS

Shakespeare, William: Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: POLITICS

Shakespeare, William: To thine own self be true / Thou canst not then be false to any man. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: HONESTY, INTEGRITY, SELF-AWARENESS, TRUTH

Shakespeare, William: To thine own self be true. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: SELF-AWARENESS

Shakespeare, William: Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: HOSPITALITY, GUESTS

Shakespeare, William: Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: RESPONSIBILITY, ROYALTY

Shakespeare, William: We know what we are, but know not what we may be. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: SELF-IDENTITY, POTENTIAL, UNKNOWINGNESS

Shakespeare, William: Wear your heart on your sleeve. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: ASSISTANCE, FEELINGS, SUPPORT

Shakespeare, William: What is the city but the people? (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: CITIES

Shakespeare, William: What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: DESIGNATIONS, NAMES, IDENTIFICATION

Shakespeare, William: What's past is prologue. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: PAST, INTRODUCTION

Shakespeare, William: When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when his son gives to his father, both cry. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: FAMILY, GENERATIONS

Shakespeare, William: When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, but in battalions! (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: SORROW

Shakespeare, William: Wisely and slow / They stumble that run fast. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: CAUTION, PATIENCE

Shakespeare, William: Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616) Categories: CAUTION, DELIBERATION

Shakur, Assata: Nobody in history has gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people oppressing them. (Assata Shakur: U.S. former member of the Black Liberation Army, Born 1947) Categories: OPPRESSION

Shakur, Tupac: Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. (Tupac Shakur: U.S. musical artist who is widely considered one of the most influential and successful rappers of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide, 1971-1996) Categories: DEATH, DEPRESSION, LIFE

Shakur, Tupac: Do not believe everything you hear: Real eyes realize real lies. (Tupac Shakur: U.S. musical artist who is widely considered one of the most influential and successful rappers of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide, 1971-1996) Categories: LIES, PERCEPTION, REALIZATION

Shakur, Tupac: My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.' (Tupac Shakur: U.S. musical artist who is widely considered one of the most influential and successful rappers of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide, 1971-1996) Categories: PRINCIPLES, SACRIFICE, VALUES

Sharma, Robin: The activity you’re most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity. (Robin Sharma: Canadian attorney and writer of publication on stress management and spirituality, Born 1964) Categories: AVOIDANCE, OPPORTUNITY

Sharma, Robin: There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. (Robin Sharma: Canadian attorney and writer of publication on stress management and spirituality, Born 1964) Categories: MISTAKES

Shaw, Anna H.: Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace. (Anna H. Shaw: leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first women to be ordained as a Methodist minister, 1847-1919) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS

Shaw, George B.: A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: GOVERNMENT, POLITICS

Shaw, George B.: A learned man is an idler who kills time by study. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: INTELLECTUALS, STUDY

Shaw, George B.: All great truths began as blasphemies. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: IDEAS, TRUTH

Shaw, George B.: Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: ASSASSINATION

Shaw, George B.: Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: FALSEHOODS

Shaw, George B.: Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: BEHAVIOR

Shaw, George B.: England and America are two countries separated by the same language. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: CULTURES, GOVERNMENT, LANGUAGE

Shaw, George B.: I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: SILENCE

Shaw, George B.: It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: GENDER, MARRIAGE

Shaw, George B.: It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: GENERATIONS

Shaw, George B.: Life isn't about finding oneself. Life is about creating oneself. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Shaw, George B.: Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: SELF-AWARENESS, SELF-DETERMINATION

Shaw, George B.: Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: MARTYRDOM

Shaw, George B.: Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: EXPERIENCE, LEARNING

Shaw, George B.: Most people do not pray; they only beg. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: PRAYER

Shaw, George B.: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: PATRIOTISM

Shaw, George B.: Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: PEACE, WAR

Shaw, George B.: Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: CHANGE, PROGRESS, STUBBORNNESS

Shaw, George B.: Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: SELF-CONTROL

Shaw, George B.: Some men see things as they are and say, 'why?' I dream things that never were, and say, 'Why not?' (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, CURIOSITY, DREAMS

Shaw, George B.: Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: MISTAKES, SUCCESS

Shaw, George B.: The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: CRIME, FINANCIERS, BURGLARS

Shaw, George B.: The great advantage of a hotel is that it’s a refuge from home life. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: HOTELS

Shaw, George B.: The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: CHANGE

Shaw, George B.: The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: ACCURACY, CYNICISM

Shaw, George B.: The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: PERSISTENCE, ADAPTATION

Shaw, George B.: The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: COMMUNICATION

Shaw, George B.: The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins, and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: GENDER

Shaw, George B.: The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: DISCRIMINATION, INDIFFERENCE

Shaw, George B.: There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: SECRECY

Shaw, George B.: There are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: BEHAVIOR, PERSONALITY

Shaw, George B.: Those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: CLOSE-MINDEDNESS, OBSTINACY

Shaw, George B.: Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: VICE, VIRTUE

Shaw, George B.: We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: HAPPINESS, WEALTH

Shaw, George B.: When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: SPORTS

Shaw, George B.: Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: ART

Shaw, George B.: You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: CURIOSITY, INNOVATION

Shaw, George B.: You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: PATRIOTISM

Shaw, George B.: Youth is wasted on the young. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950) Categories: YOUTH

Shaw, H.W.: The less we know the more we suspect. (H.W. Shaw: U.S. writer and humorist in the latter half of the 19th century, often compared to Mark Twain, 1818-1885) Categories: FEAR, SUSPICION

Shawcross, Hartley: The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned. (Hartley Shawcross: British barrister, politician, and lead prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal, 1902-2003) Categories: MORALITY

Shawcross, Hartley: There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. (Hartley Shawcross: British barrister, politician, and lead prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal, 1902-2003) Categories: CONSCIENCE, INTEGRITY

Shedd, John A.: A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. (John A. Shedd: U.S. merchant and business executive of the Marshall Field & Co., 1850-1926) Categories: GOALS, INTENTIONS

Sheed, Wilfrid: Suicide . . . is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets (Wilfrid Sheed: English-born American novelist and essayist, 1930-2011) Categories: SUICIDE

Sheehy, Gail: Courage demands a temporary surrender of security. (Gail Sheehy: U.S. author, journalist, and lecturer, Born 1937) Categories: COURAGE, GROWTH, IMPROVEMENT, SECURITY

Sheehy, Gail: If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. (Gail Sheehy: U.S. author, journalist, and lecturer, Born 1937) Categories: BEHAVIOR, CHANGE

Sheehy, Gail: See everything; overlook a lot; correct a little. (Gail Sheehy: U.S. author, journalist, and lecturer, Born 1937) Categories: LIFE

Sheehy, Gail: To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. (Gail Sheehy: U.S. author, journalist, and lecturer, Born 1937) Categories: CHALLENGES, TRIALS

Sheffield, John: Forgiveness is the most tender part of love. (John Sheffield: English poet and statesman, 1648–1721) Categories: FORGIVENESS, LOVE

Sheldon, Arthur F.: He profits most who serves best. (Arthur F. Sheldon: British joint founding president, of the Institute of Economic Affairs where he directed editorial affairs and publishing for more than thirty years, 1916-2005) Categories: SERVICE

Sheldon, Charles M.: Good resolutions are like babies crying in church. They should be carried out immediately. (Charles M. Sheldon: U.S. minister and leader of the Social Gospel movement,1857-1946) Categories: RESOLUTIONS

Sheldon, Charles M.: Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it. (Charles M. Sheldon: U.S. minister and leader of the Social Gospel movement,1857-1946) Categories: COMPETITION, SELF-IMPROVEMENT

Shelley, Percy B.: Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith. (Percy B. Shelley: English Romantic poet, who is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, 1792-1822) Categories: CHARITY, FAITH, RELIGION

Shelley, Percy B.: If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? (Percy B. Shelley: English Romantic poet, who is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, 1792-1822) Categories: HOPE, POSITIVISM

Shelley, Percy B.: Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world (Percy B. Shelley: English Romantic poet, who is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, 1792-1822) Categories: POETS, INFLUENCERS

Shelley, Percy B.: The greatest instrument of moral good is the imagination. (Percy B. Shelley: English Romantic poet, who is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, 1792-1822) Categories: IMAGINATION

Shenstone, William: Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. (William Shenstone: English poet, 1714-1763) Categories: ANGER, SELF-CONTROL

Sheppard, Kate: All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome. (Kate Sheppard: Prominent member of the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand, 1847-1934) Categories: PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY

Sheridan, Mia: Friends are the family you get to choose for yourself. (Mia Sheridan: U.S. author of romance novels) Categories: FRIENDS

Sheridan, Richard B.: A wise woman will always let her husband have her way. (Richard B. Sheridan: Irish satirist, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, 1751-1816) Categories: GENDER, MARRIAGE

Sheridan, Richard B.: The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. (Richard B. Sheridan: Irish satirist, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, 1751-1816) Categories: HUMOR, IMAGINATION

Sherman, William T.: Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. (William T. Sherman: U.S. Civil War general and a major architect of modern warfare, 1820-1891) Categories: WAR

Sherman, William T.: Money and trade are as much contraband of war as powder. (William T. Sherman: U.S. Civil War general and a major architect of modern warfare, 1820-1891) Categories: MONEY, WAR, TRADE

Sherman, William T.: There is many a boy today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell. (William T. Sherman: U.S. Civil War general and a major architect of modern warfare, 1820-1891) Categories: WAR

Shero, Fred A.: Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire. (Fred A. Shero: Canadian ice hockey player and head coach, known for his team's winning two Stanley cups, 1925-1990) Categories: INITIATIVE, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Shero, Fred A.: To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. (Fred A. Shero: Canadian ice hockey player and head coach, known for his team's winning two Stanley cups, 1925-1990) Categories: CRITICISM, INACTION

Sherriff, R. C.: When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. (R. C. Sherriff: English writer and nominee for an Academy award, 1896-1975) Categories: RETIREMENT

Shirazi, Saadi: That sorrow that is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy that is followed by sorrow. (Saadi Shirazi: Persian poet, 1210-1291) Categories: JOY, SIGNALS, SORROW

Shirazi, Saadi: The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him. (Saadi Shirazi: Persian poet, 1210-1291) Categories: GREED

Shirazi, Saadi: The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. (Saadi Shirazi: Persian poet, 1210-1291) Categories: LINKAGES, SORROW, GLADNESS

Shriver, Sargent: Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us. (Sargent Shriver: U.S. politician, activist, the driving force behind the U.S. Peace Corps, and founder of the Job Corps and Head Start, 1915-2011) Categories: HUMANKIND, PEACE

Shultz, George P.: He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides. (George P. Shultz: U.S. economist, businessman, diplomat, and statesman, 1920-2021) Categories: NEUTRALITY

Sickert, Walter: Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book. (Walter Sickert: German-born British painter and print-maker, 1860-1942) Categories: BOOKS

Siegel, Bernie S.: If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn. (Bernie S. Siegel: U.S. writer and retired pediatric surgeon, Born 1932) Categories: ADVERSITY, NATURE, RENEWAL

Siegel, Bernie S.: In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope (Bernie S. Siegel: U.S. writer and retired pediatric surgeon, Born 1932) Categories: HOPE, UNCERTAINTY

Siegel, Bernie S.: One cannot get through life without pain . . . . What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us. (Bernie S. Siegel: U.S. writer and retired pediatric surgeon, Born 1932) Categories: PAIN, SELF-DETERMINATION

Signoret, Simone: Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. (Simone Signoret: French cinema actress who won a U.S. Academy Award, 1921-1985) Categories: MARRIAGE, TOGETHERNESS

Sills, Beverly: Art is the signature of civilizations. (Beverly Sills: U.S. operatic soprano singer, 1929-2007) Categories: ART, CIVILIZATIONS

Sills, Beverly: There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. (Beverly Sills: U.S. operatic soprano singer, 1929-2007) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, GOALS

Sills, Beverly: You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. (Beverly Sills: U.S. operatic soprano singer, 1929-2007) Categories: FAILURE, ATTEMPTS

Siltanen, Rob: People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. (Rob Siltanen: U.S. leading creative marketer responsible for some of the most effective and iconic advertising campaigns) Categories: CREATIVITY, INVENTORS, CHANGE AGENTS

Siltanen, Rob: People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. (Rob Siltanen: U.S. leading creative marketer responsible for some of the most effective and iconic advertising campaigns) Categories: INFLUENCE, MARKETING

Simitiere, Pierre-Eugene d.: Out of many, one (E Pluribus Unum) (Pierre-Eugene d. Simitiere: Swiss-American philosopher and artist who suggested "In Pluribus Unum" (Out of Many one) as the motto for the U.S.A., 1736-1784) Categories: PLURALISM

Simon, Paul: I've come to doubt all that I once held as true. (Paul Simon: U.S. politician who served both in the House of Representatives and the Senate, 1928-2003) Categories: PERSPECTIVES, UNCERTAINTY

Simon, Paul: Just when I changed all of life's answers, they changed all the questions. (Paul Simon: U.S. politician who served both in the House of Representatives and the Senate, 1928-2003) Categories: CHANGE, QUESTIONS-ANSWERS

Simonides: Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. (Simonides: Greek lyric poet, c.556—c.468 B.C.E.) Categories: PAINTING, POETRY

Simpson, Alan: Humor is the universal solvent against the abrasive elements of life. (Alan Simpson: U.S. politician, born 1931) Categories: HUMOR

Simpson, Alan: Those who travel the high road of humility . . . are not bothered by heavy traffic. (Alan Simpson: U.S. politician, born 1931) Categories: HUMILITY

Sinclair, Lister: A frightened captain makes a frightened crew. (Lister Sinclair: Canadian broadcaster, playwright, and polymath, 1921-2006) Categories: LEADERSHIP

Sinclair, Upton Jr.: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. (Upton Sinclair Jr.: U.S. reformer, writer, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1878-1968) Categories: EMPLOYMENT, ETHICS

Sinek, Simon: When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute. (Simon Sinek: English-born American author and inspirational speaker on business leadership, Born 1973) Categories: CONTRIBUTIONS, INVESTMENT

Singer, Isaac B.: A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. (Isaac B. Singer: Polish-American writer in Yiddish, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and a leading figure in the Yiddish Ashkenazic literary movement, 1902-1991) Categories: WRITING, STORY-TELLING

Singer, Isaac B.: If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. (Isaac B. Singer: Polish-American writer in Yiddish, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and a leading figure in the Yiddish Ashkenazic literary movement, 1902-1991) Categories: PESSIMISM

Singer, Isaac B.: The waste basket is a writer's best friend. (Isaac B. Singer: Polish-American writer in Yiddish, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and a leading figure in the Yiddish Ashkenazic literary movement, 1902-1991) Categories: WRITING

Singer, Isaac B.: When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. (Isaac B. Singer: Polish-American writer in Yiddish, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and a leading figure in the Yiddish Ashkenazic literary movement, 1902-1991) Categories: BETRAYAL

Singer, Peter: All the arguments to prove man’s superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. (Peter Singer: Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, Born 1946) Categories: ANIMALS, SUFFERING

Singh, Gobind: Only when all other methods fail is it proper to hold the sword in hand. (Gobind Singh: Indian spiritual master, warrior, poet, philosopher. and leader of the Sikhs, Born 1666) Categories: NEGOTIATION, VIOLENCE

Sinise, Gary: Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running. (Gary Sinise: U.S. actor, director, producer, musician, and humanitarian who has worked in film, television, and theater for over 40 years and has won a Golden Globe, a Tony, among other awards, Born 1955) Categories: CAREERS

Sira, Ben: The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh; but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. (Ben Sira: Jewish scribe of Jerusalem whose collection of ethical teachings is found in Ecclesiasticus, written in c. 200—175 B.C.E.) Categories: COMMUNICATION, CRITICISM

Skelton, Red: My doctor said I look like a million dollars—green and wrinkled. (Red Skelton: U.S. comedy entertainer in radio, television, film, and vaudeville, 1913-1997) Categories: AGING

Skinner, B. F.: Education is what survives when what you have learned has been forgotten. (B. F. Skinner: U.S. psychologist, professor, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher, 1904-1990) Categories: EDUCATION

Sklar, Gary: The future is a moving target, and you have to keep aiming at it. (Gary Sklar: U.S. attorney) Categories: FUTURE, GOALS

Smalls, Robert: My race needs no special defense, for the past history of them in this country proves them to be equal of anyone. All they need is an equal shot at the battle of life. (Robert Smalls: African American politician, publisher, businessman, and naval pilot, 1839-1915) Categories: RACISM

Smedley, Francis: All’s fair in love and war. (Francis Smedley: English novelist, 1818-1864) Categories: BEHAVIOR, FAIRNESS

Smiley, Jane: In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. (Jane Smiley: U.S. novelist and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Born 1949) Categories: MOTIVATION, DESIRE

Smirnoff, Yakov: Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. (Yakov Smirnoff: Jewish Soviet-American comedian, actor, and writer, Born 1951) Categories: COMMUNICATION, LAUGHTER

Smith, Adam: People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. (Adam Smith: Scottish economist and moral philosopher who laid the foundations of classical free market economic theory 1723-1790) Categories: BUSINESS

Smith, Adam: What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? (Adam Smith: Scottish economist and moral philosopher who laid the foundations of classical free market economic theory 1723-1790) Categories: HAPPINESS

Smith, Julie O.: Boredom is simply the lack of imagination. (Julie O. Smith: U.S. psychologist, Born 1988) Categories: BOREDOM, IMAGINATION

Smith, Lillian: Faith and doubt both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. (Lillian Smith: U.S. writer and social critic of the Southern United States, 1897-1066) Categories: DOUBT, FAITH

Smith, Logan P.: Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own. (Logan P. Smith: U.S.- born British essayist and critic who was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, 1865-1946) Categories: YOUTH, EXPERIMENTING

Smith, Logan P.: It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. (Logan P. Smith: U.S.- born British essayist and critic who was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, 1865-1946) Categories: WEALTH

Smith, Logan P.: Many people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. (Logan P. Smith: U.S.- born British essayist and critic who was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, 1865-1946) Categories: MORALITY

Smith, Logan P.: There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. (Logan P. Smith: U.S.- born British essayist and critic who was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, 1865-1946) Categories: MONEY, SORROW

Smith, Logan P.: What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. (Logan P. Smith: U.S.- born British essayist and critic who was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, 1865-1946) Categories: AUTHORS, WRITING

Smith, Margaret C.: We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference. (Margaret C. Smith: U.S. politician who politician who served as a U.S. representative and a U.S. senator from Maine. She was the first woman to serve in both houses of the United States Congress, 1897-1995) Categories: INDIFFERENCE, TOLERANCE

Smith, Stan: Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it. (Stan Smith: U.S. tennis player, two-time Grand Slam singles champion and recipient of numerous other Grand Prix Championship titles. Born 1946) Categories: SELF-CONFIDENCE

Smith, Sydney: As the French say, there are three sexes—men, women, and clergymen. (Sydney Smith: English wit, writer, and Anglican cleric, 1771-1845) Categories: GENDER

Smith, Sydney: Some men have only one book in them; others, a library. (Sydney Smith: English wit, writer, and Anglican cleric, 1771-1845) Categories: BOOKS

Smith, Sydney: That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present. (Sydney Smith: English wit, writer, and Anglican cleric, 1771-1845) Categories: AGING

Smith, Will: Danger is very real but fear is a choice. (Will Smith: U.S. actor, film producer, and rapper tho has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Aware, and four Grammy Awards, Born 1968) Categories: DANGER, FEAR

Smith, Will: Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions. (Will Smith: U.S. actor, film producer, and rapper tho has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Aware, and four Grammy Awards, Born 1968) Categories: SELF-IMAGE

Smollett, Tobias: Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. (Tobias Smollett: Scottish poet and author. 1721-1771) Categories: DIVERSITY, WISDOM

Snow, Carrie: A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. (Carrie Snow: U.S. stand-up comedian and television comic writer) Categories: GENDER, PROFESSIONS

Snow, Carrie: No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap. (Carrie Snow: U.S. stand-up comedian and television comic writer) Categories: ADVERSITY

Snyder, Brandi: To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. (Brandi Snyder: U.S. entrepreneur, Born 1974) Categories: LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS

Snyder, Paul: Laughter is the liberation of the soul. (Paul Snyder: U.S. educator, Born 1938) Categories: LAUGHTER

Snyder, Timothy: Post-truth is pre-Fascism. (Timothy Snyder: U.S. professor of history at Yale University, Born 1969) Categories: TRUTH, FASCISM

Sockman, Ralph W.: Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. (Ralph W. Sockman: U.S. pastor and radio broadcaster, 1889-1970) Categories: CHARACTER, GENTLENESS

Socrates: An unexamined life is not worth living. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.) Categories: LIFE, SELF-DISCOVERY

Socrates: Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in continue firm and constant. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Socrates: Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.) Categories: FAME, HEROISM

Socrates: I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.) Categories: CITIZENSHIP, HUMANKIND

Socrates: Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.) Categories: COMMUNICATION

Socrates: The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.) Categories: CLARIFICATION, COMMUNICATION, WISDOM

Socrates: The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, SELF-ACTUALIZATION

Socrates: The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.) Categories:

Socrates: True wisdom comes . . . when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.) Categories: KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING, WISDOM

Solomon, Andrew: Travel is always both a window and a mirror. Partly what you do is discover another place, and part of what you do is view yourself and your own country differently. (Andrew Solomon: U.S. writer on politics, culture, and psychology, Born 1963) Categories: TRAVEL

Solon: Clear your mind of ‘can’t.’ (Solon: Greek statesman, lawmaker, and poet who is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy, 6th century) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, POSSIBILITIES, SELF-RELIANCE

Solon: He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. (Solon: Greek statesman, lawmaker, and poet who is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy, 6th century) Categories: LEADERSHIP

Solon: Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. (Solon: Greek statesman, lawmaker, and poet who is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy, 6th century) Categories: CHARACTER, OATH

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and who was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, 1918-2008) Categories: CLARITY, SIMPLICITY, TRUTH

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: Own what you can always carry with you; know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your bag. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and who was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, 1918-2008) Categories: KNOWLEDGE, MEMORY, OWNERSHIP, TRAVEL

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: The lie has become not just a moral category, but a pillar of the state. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and who was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, 1918-2008) Categories: GOVERNMENT, LIES

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and who was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, 1918-2008) Categories: FREEDOM

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and who was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, 1918-2008) Categories: OPPRESSION, POWER

Sondheim, Stephen: The history of the world . . . is who gets eaten and who get to eat. (Stephen Sondheim: U.S. composer and lyricist, regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th century musical theater, 1930-2021) Categories: POLITICS, ECONOMY

Sontag, Susan: Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism. (Susan Sontag: U.S. writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist, 1933-2004) Categories: PERCEPTION, PHOTOGRAPHY, TECHNOLOGY

Sontag, Susan: Life is not about significant details, illuminated in a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. (Susan Sontag: U.S. writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist, 1933-2004) Categories: PHOTOGRAPHY

Sontag, Susan: The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. (Susan Sontag: U.S. writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist, 1933-2004) Categories: PHOTOGRAPHY

Sophocles: Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act. (Sophocles: Greek playwright who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, 496—406 B.C.E.) Categories: INACTION, INDIFFERENCE

Sophocles: I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating (Sophocles: Greek playwright who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, 496—406 B.C.E.) Categories: FAILURE, HONOR, CHEATING

Sophocles: Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness? (Sophocles: Greek playwright who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, 496—406 B.C.E.) Categories: UNHAPPINESS

Sophocles: Kindness gives birth to kindness. (Sophocles: Greek playwright who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, 496—406 B.C.E.) Categories: KINDNESS

Sophocles: The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. (Sophocles: Greek playwright who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, 496—406 B.C.E.) Categories: GRIEF, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Soros, George: I am not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity. (George Soros: Hungarian-American survivor of the Holocaust, a highly successful billionaire business investor, and philanthropist, Born 1930) Categories: ACCOMPLISHMENTS, SUCCESS

Sotira, Angelo: Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career. (Angelo Sotira: U.S. entrepreneur who co-founded the online community DeviantArt, Born 1981) Categories: CAREERS, INTEGRITY, REPUTATION

Sousa, John P.: Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. (John P. Sousa: U..S. music conductor, composer of military marches and known best for the 'Stars and Stripes Forever,' 1854-1932) Categories: JAZZ, MUSIC

Southey, Robert: Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. (Robert Southey: English poet of the Romantic school and England's Poet Laureate for 30 years, 1774-1843) Categories: DEFEAT, OPPORTUNITIES

Southey, Robert: If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. (Robert Southey: English poet of the Romantic school and England's Poet Laureate for 30 years, 1774-1843) Categories: BREVITY, IMPACT, WRITING

Southey, Robert: Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. (Robert Southey: English poet of the Romantic school and England's Poet Laureate for 30 years, 1774-1843) Categories: YOUTH

Sowell, Thomas: It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. (Thomas Sowell: U.S. economist, social theorist, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Born 1930) Categories: IGNORANCE, KNOWLEDGE

Sowell, Thomas: The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of everything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. (Thomas Sowell: U.S. economist, social theorist, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Born 1930) Categories: ECONOMICS, POLITICS

Soyinka, Wole: The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. (Wole Soyinka: Nigerian playwright, poet, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature — the first sub-Saharan to be honored in that category, Born 1934) Categories: CRITICISM, FREEDOM

Soyinka, Wole: The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. (Wole Soyinka: Nigerian playwright, poet, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature — the first sub-Saharan to be honored in that category, Born 1934) Categories: COWARDICE, OPPRESSION, SILENCE, TYRANNY

Spanish Proverb: An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. (Spanish Proverb: ) Categories: MOTHERHOOD

Spanish Proverb: He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes. (Spanish Proverb: ) Categories: MISTAKES, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Spanish Proverb: He who fears death cannot enjoy life. (Spanish Proverb: ) Categories: DEATH, FEAR

Spanish Proverb: He who laughs last laughs best (Spanish Proverb: ) Categories: LAUGHTER, OUTCOMES

Spanish Proverb: Life without a friend is death without a witness. (Spanish Proverb: ) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Spanish Proverb: Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year. (Spanish Proverb: ) Categories: PROCRASTINATION, TOMORROW

Spanish Proverb: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. (Spanish Proverb: ) Categories:

Spanish Proverb: Where there is love, there is pain. (Spanish Proverb: ) Categories: LOVE, PAIN

Spanish Proverb: Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. (Spanish Proverb: ) Categories: GOSSIP

Sparks, Nicholas: Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. (Nicholas Sparks: U.S. novelist, screenwriter, and film producer, Born 1965) Categories: LOVE

Spencer, Anna G.: It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman’s brain. (Anna G. Spencer: U.S. educator, feminist, and Unitarian minister, 1851-1931) Categories: GENDER

Spencer, Herbert: Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings and not by the intellect. (Herbert Spencer: English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, and sociologist, 1820-1903) Categories: EMOTIONS, OPINIONS

Spencer, Herbert: Reading is seeing by proxy. (Herbert Spencer: English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, and sociologist, 1820-1903) Categories: READING

Spenser, Edmund: Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small. (Edmund Spenser: English poet best known for an epic poem, ‘The Faerie Queene,’ and considered one of the greatest poets in the English language, 1552-1599) Categories: GOVERNANCE, LEADERSHIP

Spielberg, Steven: The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. (Steven Spielberg: U.S. filmmaker who has been considered one of the most popular directors and producers in film history, Born 1946) Categories: MENTORING

Spinoza, Benedict: Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. (Benedict Spinoza: Dutch Enlightenment philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin who was inspired by ground-breaking ideas of Rene Descartes, 1632-1677) Categories: FEAR, HOPE

Spinoza, Benedict: Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. (Benedict Spinoza: Dutch Enlightenment philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin who was inspired by ground-breaking ideas of Rene Descartes, 1632-1677) Categories: PEACE

Spock, Benjamin: Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God. (Benjamin Spock: U.S. pediatrician and author, 1903-1998) Categories: HATRED, HUMANKIND, TRIBALISM, VICIOUSNESS

Spock, Benjamin: Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. (Benjamin Spock: U.S. pediatrician and author, 1903-1998) Categories: SELF-CONFIDENCE

Spurgeon, Charles H.: 'You must be in fashion' is the utterance of weak-headed mortals. (Charles H. Spurgeon: English Particular Baptist preacher who opposed the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day, 1834-1892) Categories: CONFORMITY

Spurgeon, Charles H.: A lie travels around the world while truth is putting on her boots. (Charles H. Spurgeon: English Particular Baptist preacher who opposed the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day, 1834-1892) Categories: LIES, TRUTH

Spurgeon, Charles H.: By perseverance the snails reached the ark. (Charles H. Spurgeon: English Particular Baptist preacher who opposed the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day, 1834-1892) Categories: PERSEVERANCE

Spurgeon, Charles H.: It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. (Charles H. Spurgeon: English Particular Baptist preacher who opposed the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day, 1834-1892) Categories: ENJOYMENT, HAPPINESS, WEALTH

Spurgeon, Charles H.: The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. (Charles H. Spurgeon: English Particular Baptist preacher who opposed the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day, 1834-1892) Categories: SELF-AWARENESS, WISDOM

Staercke, Andre de: What one needs in life are the pessimism of intelligence and the optimism of will. (Andre de Staercke: Belgian Ambassador to NATO - the North American Trade Organization, 1913-2001) Categories: OPTIMISM, PESSIMISM

Stalin, Joseph: A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. (Joseph Stalin: Georgian revolutionary and political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death, 1878-1953) Categories: DEATH, STATISTICS, TRAGEDY

Stalin, Joseph: It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes. (Joseph Stalin: Georgian revolutionary and political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death, 1878-1953) Categories: ELECTIONS

Stalin, Joseph: Quantity has a life all its own. (Joseph Stalin: Georgian revolutionary and political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death, 1878-1953) Categories: POWER, QUANTITY

Stalin, Joseph: You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. (Joseph Stalin: Georgian revolutionary and political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death, 1878-1953) Categories: REVOLUTIONS

Stanley, Edward: Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. (Edward Stanley: British statesman, 1826-1893) Categories: EXERCISE

Stanton, Elizabeth C.: Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. (Elizabeth C. Stanton: U.S. suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement, 1815-1902) Categories: PROGRESSIVISM

Stanton, Elizabeth C.: Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. (Elizabeth C. Stanton: U.S. suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement, 1815-1902) Categories: CIVILIZATION, SOCIETY, WOMEN

Starhawk: Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable. (Starhawk: U.S. feminist and writer, known as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People, Born 1951) Categories: SPIRITUALITY, IMMEASURABILITY

Stark, Freya: Curiosity is the one thing invincible in nature. (Freya Stark: Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer who was one of the first non-Arabs to travel through the southern Arabian Desert, 1893-1993) Categories: CURIOSITY

Stark, Freya: The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised. (Freya Stark: Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer who was one of the first non-Arabs to travel through the southern Arabian Desert, 1893-1993) Categories: WOMEN

Stavridis, James: Walls don't work. . . . Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges. (James Stavridis: U.S. retired U.S. naval admiral and chair of the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation, Born 1955) Categories: BRIDGES, SOCIETY, WALLS

Steel, Danielle: A lie can unravel the whole tapestry of a relationship. (Danielle Steel: U.S. internationally bestselling novelist, Born 1947) Categories: LIES, RELATIONSHIPS

Steel, Danielle: Courage is not the absence of fear or despair, but the strength to conquer them. (Danielle Steel: U.S. internationally bestselling novelist, Born 1947) Categories: BRAVERY, COURAGE

Steel, Danielle: Happiness is a choice, and a gift. (Danielle Steel: U.S. internationally bestselling novelist, Born 1947) Categories:

Steichen, Edward: Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. (Edward Steichen: Luxembourgish-American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator, 1879-1973) Categories: PERCEPTION, PHOTOGRAPHY

Stein, Gertrude: If you are too careful, you are so preoccupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. (Gertrude Stein: U.S.-French novelist, poet, and playwright, 1874-1946) Categories: FEAR, CAREFULNESS

Stein, Gertrude: Let me listen to me and not to them. (Gertrude Stein: U.S.-French novelist, poet, and playwright, 1874-1946) Categories: SELF-RELIANCE

Stein, Joseph: Those who wander are not necessarily lost. (Joseph Stein: U.S. playwright, best known for writing the books for such musicals as 'Fiddler on the Roof' and 'Zorba,' 1912-2010) Categories: WANDERERS

Steinbeck, John: A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ. (John Steinbeck: U.S. author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1968) Categories: SADNESS, SELF-DAMAGE

Steinbeck, John: Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power. (John Steinbeck: U.S. author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1968) Categories: CORRUPTION, FEAR, POWER

Steinbeck, John: It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. (John Steinbeck: U.S. author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1968) Categories: SLEEP

Steinbeck, John: Lord, how the day passes! It’s like a life—so quickly when we don’t watch it and so slowly if we do. (John Steinbeck: U.S. author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1968) Categories: AWARENESS, TIME

Steinbeck, John: The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. (John Steinbeck: U.S. author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1968) Categories: PUBLISHING, WRITING

Steinem, Gloria: A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934) Categories: FAME, PEDESTAL

Steinem, Gloria: A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934) Categories: WOMEN

Steinem, Gloria: Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934) Categories: DREAMS, PLANNING

Steinem, Gloria: Empathy . . . is the most revolutionary emotion. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934) Categories: EMOTIONS, EMPATHY

Steinem, Gloria: I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934) Categories: GENDER, WOMEN

Steinem, Gloria: Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934) Categories: JUSTICE, LAW

Steinem, Gloria: Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.” (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934) Categories: APPROVAL, RESPECT

Steinem, Gloria: Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934) Categories: SELF-ESTEEM

Steinem, Gloria: Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934) Categories: GENDER

Steinem, Gloria: Sports help girls and women to perceive their bodies as instruments, not just ornaments. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934) Categories: FEMALES, SPORTS

Steinem, Gloria: The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934) Categories: LEARNING, UNLEARNING, DISCARDING

Steinem, Gloria: The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934) Categories: ANGER, TRUTH

Steinem, Gloria: Women are not going to become more equal outside the home until men become more equal inside the home. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934) Categories: GENDER

Stendhal: One can acquire everything in solitude except character. (Stendhal: French novelist, 1783-1842) Categories: CHARACTER-BUILDING

Stendhal: The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. (Stendhal: French novelist, 1783-1842) Categories: LEADERSHIP

Stendhal: The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. (Stendhal: French novelist, 1783-1842) Categories: LEADERSHIP

Stengel, Casey: Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits. (Casey Stengel: U.S. Major League Baseball player and manager of the New York Yankees who was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, 1890-1975) Categories: MANAGEMENT

Sterling, John: Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. (John Sterling: Scottish author, 1806-1844) Categories: INSTINCT

Stern, Ellen S.: My expectations—which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals—made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success. (Ellen S. Stern: U.S. motivational speaker, best-selling author, and champion of people suffering from chronic illness, Born 1954) Categories: EXPECTATIONS

Sterne, Laurence: A man cannot dress, without his ideas getting clothed at the same time. (Laurence Sterne: Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman, 1713-1768) Categories: IDEAS, PREPARATION

Sterne, Laurence: The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. (Laurence Sterne: Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman, 1713-1768) Categories: DESIRE, KNOWLEDGE

Sterne, Laurence: Writing, when properly managed . . . is but a different name for conversation. (Laurence Sterne: Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman, 1713-1768) Categories: WRITING

Stevens, Abel: Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. (Abel Stevens: U.S. clergyman, editor, and author of religious history, 1815-1897) Categories: MANNERS, POLITENESS

Stevens, Christine: The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule -- we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us were any other species in our dominant position. (Christine Stevens: U.S. animal welfare activist and conservationist, 1918-2002) Categories: ANIMALS, CONSERVATION

Stevens, Wallace: The poet is the priest of the invisible. (Wallace Stevens: U.S. modernist poet, business executive, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his "Collected Poems," 1879-1955) Categories: POETS

Stevenson, Bryan: Justice will never come if we only do the things that are comfortable. (Bryan Stevenson: U.S. lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law, Born 1959) Categories: CHALLENGES, JUSTICE

Stevenson, Bryan: The opposite of poverty is not wealth. . . . In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice. (Bryan Stevenson: U.S. lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law, Born 1959) Categories: JUSTICE, POVERTY

Stevenson, Bryan: We have a system of justice in (the U.S.A.) that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes. (Bryan Stevenson: U.S. lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law, Born 1959) Categories: JUSTICE (U.S.A.)

Stevenson, Bryan: When you experience mercy . . . you begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us. (Bryan Stevenson: U.S. lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law, Born 1959) Categories: MERCY

Stevenson, Bryan: You're better off being rich and guilty in the U.S. than poor and innocent. (Bryan Stevenson: U.S. lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law, Born 1959) Categories: GUILT, INNOCENCE, WEALTH

Stevenson, Robert L.: A friend is a present you give yourself. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924) Categories: FRIENDS

Stevenson, Robert L.: Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924) Categories: ABSENCE, PRESENCE, RELATIONSHIPS

Stevenson, Robert L.: All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth; and none, or almost none, for the disenchantments of age. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924) Categories: AGING, YOUTH

Stevenson, Robert L.: Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924) Categories: IMPACT, LEGACIES

Stevenson, Robert L.: Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924) Categories: CONSEQUENCES, LIFE

Stevenson, Robert L.: I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924) Categories: GIFTS, GIFT-GIVING

Stevenson, Robert L.: If a man loves the labour of his trade . . . the gods have called him. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924) Categories: EMPLOYMENT

Stevenson, Robert L.: Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment? (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924) Categories: ATTAINMENT, GOALS, MASTERY

Stevenson, Robert L.: It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924) Categories: GOALS, INTENTIONS

Stevenson, Robert L.: It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable, in retrospect. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924) Categories: DECISIONS, ACTIONS

Stevenson, Robert L.: Marriage is like life: it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924) Categories: LIFE, MARRIAGE

Stevenson, Robert L.: The cruelest lies are often told in silence. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924) Categories: LIES, SILENCE

Stevenson, Robert L.: The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924) Categories: COOPERATION, LIFE, SKILLS

Stevenson, Robert L.: There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924) Categories: AGING, LIFE

Stevenson, Robert L.: There’s just ae thing I cannae bear/ an’ that’s my conscience. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924) Categories: CONSCIENCE

Stevenson !!, Adlai: It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. (Adlai Stevenson !!: U. S. politician and diplomat who was the United States ambassador to the United Nations, 1900-1965) Categories: AGING, LIFE

Stevenson II, Adlai: A hungry man is not a free man. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965) Categories: HUNGER, POVERTY

Stevenson II, Adlai: He who slings mud generally loses ground. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965) Categories: INSULTS, ATTACKS

Stevenson II, Adlai: I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965) Categories: COMMUNICATION, POLITICS (U.S.A.)

Stevenson II, Adlai: Laws are never as effective as habits. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965) Categories: HABITS

Stevenson II, Adlai: Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965) Categories: WORDS

Stevenson II, Adlai: My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965) Categories: FREEDOM, NON-CONFORMITY, POPULARITY

Stevenson II, Adlai: No gains without pains. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965) Categories: ADVERSITY, GAINS

Stevenson II, Adlai: Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965) Categories: FEAR, POLITICS, SHOCK

Stevenson II, Adlai: Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965) Categories: CORRUPTION, PROPAGANDA, CONSPIRACIES

Stewart, Jon: U.S. comedian, political commentator, actor, director and television host. (Jon Stewart: U.S. comedian, political commentator, actor, director and television host, Born 1962) Categories: ABSURDITY, DANGER, DISCRETION

Stewart, Potter: Hard-core pornography is hard to define, but I know it when I see it. (Potter Stewart: U.S. Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court , 1915-1975) Categories: PORNOGRAPHY

Stinnett, Caskie: A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. (Caskie Stinnett: U.S. award-winning essayist) Categories: DIPLOMATS

Stone, W. C.: Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. (W. C. Stone: U.S. businessman, philanthropist, and self-help book author, 1902-2002) Categories: GOALS

Stone, W. C.: To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage. (W. C. Stone: U.S. businessman, philanthropist, and self-help book author, 1902-2002) Categories: OPPORTUNITY

Stone, W. C.: When thinking won't cure fear, action will. (W. C. Stone: U.S. businessman, philanthropist, and self-help book author, 1902-2002) Categories: ACTION, FEAR

Stookey, Noel P.: One and Many: One flame, many candles; one sky, many stars; one sea, many rivers . . . . (Noel P. Stookey: U.S. singer and songwriter of the 'Peter, Paul, and Mary' trio, Born 1937) Categories: DIVERSITY, UNITY

Stoppard, Thomas: Age is a high price to pay for maturity. (Thomas Stoppard: Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter who in 1997 was knighted, Born 1937) Categories: AGING

Stoppard, Thomas: It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting. (Thomas Stoppard: Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter who in 1997 was knighted, Born 1937) Categories: DEMOCRACY, ELECTIONS

Storm, Hyemeyohsts (Charles): As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us. (Hyemeyohsts (Charles) Storm: German-American immigrant, Born 1935) Categories: CHANGE, LEARNING, PERCEPTION

Stout, Rex: The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled. (Rex Stout: U.S. detective fiction writer, 1886-1975) Categories: LABELING, STEREOTYPING

Stout, Rex: What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to. (Rex Stout: U.S. detective fiction writer, 1886-1975) Categories: AGREEMENT, COMMITMENT

Stowe, Harriet B.: The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. (Harriet B. Stowe: U.S. abolitionist and author, 1811-1896) Categories: DEATH, GRIEF, REGRET

Strauss, Neil: The reason facts don’t change most people’s opinions is because most people don’t use facts to form their opinion. They use their opinions to form their ‘facts’. (Neil Strauss: U.S. author, journalist, and ghost writer, Born 1969) Categories: FACTS, OPINIONS, TRUTH

Stravinsky, Igor: I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. (Igor Stravinsky: Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor who is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century, 1882-1971) Categories: MUSIC

Stravinsky, Igor: Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. (Igor Stravinsky: Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor who is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century, 1882-1971) Categories: COMMUNICATION, SILENCE

Stravinsky, Igor: Silence will save me from being wrong and foolish, but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. (Igor Stravinsky: Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor who is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century, 1882-1971) Categories: SILENCE

Strayed, Cheryl: Bravery is acknowledging your fear and doing it anyway. (Cheryl Strayed: U.S. writer and podcast host, Born 1968) Categories: BRAVERY, COURAGE

Strebel, Sally: We never thought of it as customer service. We just treat people how we would want to be treated. (Sally Strebel: U.S. professional manager) Categories: BUSINESS, CUSTOMER SERVICE

Streep, Meryl: I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life. (Meryl Streep: U.S. actress, often described as the best actress of her generation, Born 1949) Categories: SELF-AWARENESS

Strode, Muriel: Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Muriel Strode: U.S. poet and writer, 1875-1930) Categories: EXPLORATION, LEADERSHIP, RISK

Strunsky, Simeon: Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door. (Simeon Strunsky: Russian-born Jewish American essayist and editorialist, 1879-1948) Categories: CHANGE, IMPATIENCE

Stuart, Janice Erskine: All sorts of spiritual gifts come through deprivations, if they are accepted. (Janice Erskine Stuart: English Roman Catholic nun and educator, 1857-1914) Categories: DEPRIVATION, SPIRITUALITY

Styron, William: A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. (William Styron: U.S. novelist, essayist, and recipient of major literary awards, 1925-2006) Categories: BOOKS

Suenens, L. J.: Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. (L. J. Suenens: Belgian Catholic Cardinal(, 1904-1996) Categories: COMMITMENT, DREAMS

Suenens, L. J.: Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality. (L. J. Suenens: Belgian Catholic Cardinal(, 1904-1996) Categories: DREAMS, HOPE

Sugar, Bert: Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs. (Bert Sugar: U.S. boxing writer and sports historian, 1936-2012) Categories: CRITICS

Sullivan, Louis H.: Form follows function. (Louis H. Sullivan: U.S. architect who has been called the 'Father of skyscrapers' and who posthumously received the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects, 1856-1924) Categories: DESIGN, PLANNING

Sullivan, Louis H.: What the people are within, the buildings express without. (Louis H. Sullivan: U.S. architect who has been called the 'Father of skyscrapers' and who posthumously received the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects, 1856-1924) Categories: ARCHITECTURE

Sumner, Charles: Caste makes distinction among creatures where God has made none. (Charles Sumner: U.S. statesman and Senator who, as an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, was a leader of the anti-slavery forces, 1811-1874) Categories: CASTE, DISCRIMINATION

Sumner, Charles: Where slavery is there, Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is there, Slavery cannot be. (Charles Sumner: U.S. statesman and Senator who, as an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, was a leader of the anti-slavery forces, 1811-1874) Categories: LIBERTY, SLAVERY

Sunday, Billy: Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. (Billy Sunday: U.S. athlete and pastor, considered the most influential U.S. evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century, 1862-1935) Categories: RELIGION

Sun Tzu: The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. (Sun Tzu: Chinese general, military strategist, writer, and philosopher who authored an influential work of military strategy that has affected both Western and East Asian philosophy and military thinking, 544-496 B.C.E.) Categories: PEACE-MAKING, WAR

Susser, Laurence: Workaholics commit slow suicide by refusing to allow the child inside them to play. (Laurence Susser: U.S. medical doctor-anesthesiologist) Categories: PLAY, WORKAHOLICS

Swahili Proverb: A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing his/her own way. (Swahili Proverb: ) Categories: GOALS, TEAMWORK

Swedenborg, Emmanuel: Love in its essence is spiritual fire. (Emmanuel Swedenborg: Swedish polymath; scientist, engineer, astronomer, anatomist, Christian theologian, philosopher, and mystic, 1688-1772) Categories:

Swedish Proverb: Advice should be viewed from behind. (Swedish Proverb: ) Categories: ADVICE, HINDSIGHT

Swedish Proverb: Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. (Swedish Proverb: ) Categories: PLANNING

Swedish Proverb: He who buys what he doesn’t need steals from himself. (Swedish Proverb: ) Categories: FRUGALITY

Swedish Proverb: Joy shared is twice the joy. Sorrow shared is half the sorrow. (Swedish Proverb: ) Categories: JOY, SHARING, SORROW

Swedish Proverb: Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. (Swedish Proverb: ) Categories: FORGIVENESS

Swedish Proverb: Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. (Swedish Proverb: ) Categories: ANXIETY, WORRY

Sweeney, James E.: Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them. (James E. Sweeney: U.S. Licensed psychologist, 1942-2023) Categories: MISTAKES, REPARATIONS

Sweeney, Paul: True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. (Paul Sweeney: Scottish politician, Born 1989) Categories: SUCCESS

Sweetland, Ben: We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. (Ben Sweetland: U.S. author, columnist, psychologist, and motivational speaker, 1888-1963) Categories: SERVICE

Swetchine, Anne-Sophie: Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. (Anne-Sophie Swetchine: Russian mystic, famous for her salon in Paris, 1782-1857) Categories: DIGNITY, VANITY

Swetchine, Anne-Sophie: The heart has always the pardoning power. (Anne-Sophie Swetchine: Russian mystic, famous for her salon in Paris, 1782-1857) Categories: HEARTFULNESS, PARDONING

Swetchine, Anne-Sophie: The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. (Anne-Sophie Swetchine: Russian mystic, famous for her salon in Paris, 1782-1857) Categories: FRIENDSHIP, RELATIONSHIPS

Swift, Jonathan: A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying . . . that he is wiser today than yesterday (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745) Categories: ACKNOWLEDGMENT, ADMISSION, MISTAKES

Swift, Jonathan: A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745) Categories: ADMISSION, GUILT

Swift, Jonathan: A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745) Categories: ALONENESS, RESOURCEFULNESS

Swift, Jonathan: Bread is the staff of life. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745) Categories: BREAD, FOOD

Swift, Jonathan: If a man would register all his opinions . . . beginning from his youth and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last! (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745) Categories: OPINIIONS

Swift, Jonathan: It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745) Categories: ONE-SIDEDNESS, REASON

Swift, Jonathan: Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745) Categories: LAW

Swift, Jonathan: Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745) Categories: AWARENESS, PERCEPTION, WEALTH

Swift, Jonathan: Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders generally discover everybody's face but their own, which is the chief reason . . . that so very few are offended by it. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745) Categories: SATIRE

Swift, Jonathan: The sight of you is good for sore eyes. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745) Categories: COMPLIMENT, GREETING

Swift, Jonathan: There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745) Categories: INCONSISTENCY

Swift, Jonathan: There's none so blind as they that won't see. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745) Categories: CLOSE-MINDEDNESS, STUBBORNNESS

Swift, Jonathan: Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745) Categories: PERCEPTION, VISION

Swift, Jonathan: What some invent the rest enlarge. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745) Categories: DEVELOPMENT, IDEAS, INVENTIONS, RUMORS

Swift, Jonathan: You can't reason someone out of something he didn't reason himself into. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745) Categories: REASON

Swindoll, Charles R.: Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. (Charles R. Swindoll: U.S. evangelical Christian pastor, author, educator, and radio preacher, Born1934) Categories: LIFE, SELF-DETERMINATION

Swope, Jr., Herbert B.: I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. (Herbert B. Swope, Jr.: U.S. producer of movies and plays, journalist, lecturer, and book reviewer. 1915-20008) Categories: FAILURE

Syrus, Publilus: A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: APPEARANCE

Syrus, Publilus: Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: CHALLENGES, LEADERSHIP

Syrus, Publilus: From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: ROLE MODELS

Syrus, Publilus: He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: BLAME

Syrus, Publilus: How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: SELF-FORGIVENESS

Syrus, Publilus: I regret often that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: SILENCE

Syrus, Publilus: In quarreling, the truth is always lost. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: QUARRELING, TRUTH

Syrus, Publilus: It is not every question that deserves an answer. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: QUESTIONS-ANSWERS

Syrus, Publilus: It's a bad plan that can't be changed. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: CHANGE, PLANNING

Syrus, Publilus: Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: ADVICE

Syrus, Publilus: No one knows what he can to do until he tries. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: INITIATIVE, SELF-DISCOVERY

Syrus, Publilus: No one reaches a high position without daring. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: DARINGNESS

Syrus, Publilus: Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: ADVERSITY, FRIENDS, PROSPERITY

Syrus, Publilus: Some remedies are worse than the disease. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: DISEASES, REMEDIES

Syrus, Publilus: The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: PERCEPTION, SENSES, VISION

Syrus, Publilus: The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: DELAY, DELIBERATION

Syrus, Publilus: The remedy for wrongs is to forget them. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: WRONGS

Syrus, Publilus: There are some remedies worse than the disease. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: MEDICINE

Syrus, Publilus: To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.) Categories: CONFESSION, FAULTS, INNOCENCE

Szasz, Thomas: Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. (Thomas Szasz: Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, 1920-2012) Categories: COURAGE, THINKING

Szasz, Thomas: If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. (Thomas Szasz: Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, 1920-2012) Categories: RELIGION, SCHIZOPHRENIA

Szasz, Thomas: Masturbation is the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century, it was a disease. in the twentieth, it's a cure. (Thomas Szasz: Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, 1920-2012) Categories: MASTURBATION

Szasz, Thomas: People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. (Thomas Szasz: Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, 1920-2012) Categories: SELF-IDENTITY

Szasz, Thomas: The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic—in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea known to medical science—is work. (Thomas Szasz: Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, 1920-2012) Categories: WORK

Szasz, Thomas: The proverb warns that 'You should not bite that hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. (Thomas Szasz: Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, 1920-2012) Categories: PROTEST, SELF-RELIANCE

Szenes, Hannah: There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth, though they have long been extinct. Similarly, there are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. (Hannah Szenes: Hungarian poet and paratrooper, one of 37 Jewish parachutists to assist in the rescue of Hungarian Jews, 1921-1944) Categories: LEGACIES

Szent-Gyorgy, Albert von: Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought. (Albert von Szent-Gyorgy: Hungarian biochemist who is credited with having discovered vitamin C, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology, 1893-1986) Categories: DISCOVERY