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IDEALOGIES : Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. (Eugene Ionesco: Romanian-French playwright and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre, 1909-1994)

IDEAS : A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. (Frank Capra: Italian-born U.S. film director, producer, and writer who received an Academy Award for Best Director, 1897-1991)

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

IDEAS : A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. (Oliver W. Holmes Sr.: U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)

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

IDEAS : An idea is salvation by imagination. (Frank L. Wright: U.S. architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, 1867-1959)

IDEAS : An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason. (Joseph McCabe: )

IDEAS : Barricades of ideas are worth more than barricades of stones. (Jose Marti: Cuban revolutionary, journalist, and poet, 1853-1895)

IDEAS : Great progress flows from once laughable ideas—such as moon colonization. (Newt Gingrich: U.S. politician, Born 1943)

IDEAS : Ideas are to literature what light is to painting. (Paul Bourget: French novelist, critic, and a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1852-1935))

IDEAS : Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. (Don Marquis: U.S. humorist, journalist, and playwright, 1878-1937)

IDEAS : Ideas won’t keep; something needs to be done about them. (Alfred N. Whitehead: English mathematician and philosopher whose studies have found application to a wide variety of disciplines, 1861-1947)

IDEAS : If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones. (Peter Dunov: Bulgarian philosopher and spiritual teacher, 1864-1944)

IDEAS : Most problems are really the absence of ideas. (Unknown Source: )

IDEAS : No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. (Robin Williams: U.S. actor and comedian, 1951-2014)

IDEAS : Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. (Emile Chartier: French philosopher, journalist, and pacifist, 1868-1951)

IDEAS : Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

IDEAS : Openly share and talk to people about your idea. Use their lack of interest or doubt to fuel your motivation to make it happen. (Todd Garland: U.S. founder and CEO of BuySellAds)

IDEAS : Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

IDEAS : The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. (Samuel T. Coleridge: English poet and philosopher, 1772-1834)

IDEAS : What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in! (Gustave Flaubert: French novelist and author of "Madame Bovary," 1821-1880)

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

IDEAS : When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

IDEAS : Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

IDEAS : Words are but the signs of ideas. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

IDENTIFICATION : The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. (Katherine Paterson: U.S. writer, best known for children's novels, Born 1932)

IDENTIFICATION : 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)

IDENTITY : However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

IDENTITY : It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers. (Pierre M. de Levis: French duke, politician, aphorist, and soldier, 1764-1830)

IDENTITY : When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. (Jiddu Krishnamurti: Indian spiritual writer and speaker, 1895-1986)

IDENTITY : Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

IDLENESS : A useless life is an early death. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

IDLENESS : An idle brain is the Devil's workshop. (Unknown Source: )

IDLENESS : An idle mind is a workshop for the devil. (Unknown Source: )

IDLENESS : He not busy being born is busy dying. (Bob Dylan: U.S. Nobel Prize laureate, singer, painter, and songwriter of "The Times They Are A-Changin,' Born 1941)

IDLENESS : He who does nothing makes no mistakes. (Italian Proverb: )

IDLENESS : Idle hands are the devil's workshop. (Bible, Proverbs 16:27: )

IDLENESS : Idle people have the least leisure. (U.S. Proverb: )

IDLENESS : If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

IDLENESS : It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. (Jerome K. Jerome: English writer and humorist, 1859-1927)

IDLENESS : It is no rest to be idle. (Paul Peel: Canadian academic painter, 1860-1892)

IDLENESS : Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

IDLENESS : The hardest work is to go idle. (Unknown Source: )

IDLENESS : When I rest, I rust. (German Proverb: )

IDLENESS : Work is the best method devised for killing time. (William Feather: U.S. publisher, printer, and author, 1889-1981)

IDOLS : If not religious, man will be superstitious. If he worships not the true God, he will have his idols. (Theodore Parker: U.S. minister of the Unitarian church, reformer, and abolitionist, whose words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr., (1810-1860))

IGNORANCE : A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. (Saul Bellow: Canadian-American writer who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts, 1915-2005)

IGNORANCE : Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. (Mary K. Ash: U.S. businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, 1918-2001)

IGNORANCE : All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance. (T. S. Eliot: U.S.- born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature who at age 39 became a British subject, subsequently renouncing his U.S. passport, 1888-1965)

IGNORANCE : Anti-intellectualism fosters the false notion that democracy means that ‘my Ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’ (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

IGNORANCE : Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never was and never will be. (Unknown Source: )

IGNORANCE : Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness. (Alejandro Jodorowsky: Chilean-French film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, actor, author, poet, and producer, Born 1929)

IGNORANCE : Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. (Will Durant: U.S. writer, historian, and philosopher, 1885-1981)

IGNORANCE : Education is the path from cocky arrogance to miserable uncertainty. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

IGNORANCE : Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects. (Will Rogers: U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)

IGNORANCE : Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

IGNORANCE : Half the world does not know how the other half lives. (Francois Rabelais: French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk, and Greek scholar, 1494-1553)

IGNORANCE : He that knows little often repeats it. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

IGNORANCE : He that knows little, often repeats it. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

IGNORANCE : How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. (Adolf Hitler: German leader of the Nazi Party who initiated World War II in Europe, 1889-1945)

IGNORANCE : I can instruct the ignorant; however, stupid people simply refuse to learn. (Steve Briscoe: U.S. architect, Born, 1954))

IGNORANCE : I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

IGNORANCE : If a man points at the moon, an idiot will look at the finger. (Unknown Source: )

IGNORANCE : If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . it expects what never was and never will be. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

IGNORANCE : If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok: U.S. lawyer, educator, and former president of Harvard University, Born 1930)

IGNORANCE : Ignorance comes in all colors; not all blacks are criminals; not all whites are racists. (Unknown Source: )

IGNORANCE : Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. (William Beveridge: British economist and social reformer, 1879-1963)

IGNORANCE : Ignorance is not innocence but sin. (Robert Browning: English poet and playwright, 1812-1889)

IGNORANCE : Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

IGNORANCE : Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

IGNORANCE : It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

IGNORANCE : It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

IGNORANCE : It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument. (William G. McAdoo Jr.: U.S. lawyer and politician who played a major role in the administration of his father-in-law, President Woodrow Wilson 1863-1941)

IGNORANCE : 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)

IGNORANCE : Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. (Alfred N. Whitehead: English mathematician and philosopher whose studies have found application to a wide variety of disciplines, 1861-1947)

IGNORANCE : Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. (: )

IGNORANCE : Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

IGNORANCE : One can be ignorant without being bigoted, but one can't be bigoted without being ignorant. (Robert Greenley: U.S. microbiologist, Born 1946))

IGNORANCE : Prejudice is the child of ignorance. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

IGNORANCE : Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them. (Louis Nizer: U.S. lawyer, author, artist, lecturer, and advisor to those in the worlds of politics, business, and entertainment, 1902-1994)

IGNORANCE : The darkest thing about Africa is America's ignorance of it. (George H. Kimble: British-born geographer, professor at McGill University, and secretary of the International Geographical Union, 1908-2004)

IGNORANCE : The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel. (John Lyly: English playwright, poet, dramatist, and courtier, 1554-1606)

IGNORANCE : 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)

IGNORANCE : The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

IGNORANCE : The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism. (William Osler: Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1849-1887)

IGNORANCE : The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. (Daniel J. Boorstin: U.S. historian, professor, attorney, and writer, 1914-2004)

IGNORANCE : The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

IGNORANCE : The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

IGNORANCE : The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled land with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and impoverished lives. (Florence Luscomb: U.S. women's suffrage activist and architect who was one of the first ten women to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with her degrees in architecture, 1887-1985)

IGNORANCE : The trouble ain't that people are ignorant. It's that they know so much that ain't so. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

IGNORANCE : The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

IGNORANCE : There is a cult of ignorance in the United States . . . nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’ (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

IGNORANCE : There is no wealth like knowledge and no poverty like ignorance. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

IGNORANCE : There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

IGNORANCE : To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

IGNORANCE : Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

IGNORANCE : Vessels never give so great a sound as when they are empty. (John Jewell: English Bishop of Salisbury and a key figure in the Christian Reformation movement, 1522-1571)

IGNORANCE : We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

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

ILLEGITIMACY : There are no illegitimate children—only illegitimate parents. (Leon R. Yankwich: U.S. Federal judge, 1888-1975)

ILLITERACY : A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

ILLNESS : Illness comes on horseback, but goes away on foot. (Dutch Proverb: )

ILLNESS : Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. (Jean-Martin Charcot: French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology, best known today for his work on hypnosis and hysteria, 1825-1893)

ILLNESS : When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance. (Luc de Clapiers: French writer and moralist, 1715-1747)

ILLUMINATION : Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. (Anne Frank: German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945)

ILLUMINATION : We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb. (Bill Bryson: U.S. author, Born 1951)

ILLUSIONS : The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. (Daniel J. Boorstin: U.S. historian, professor, attorney, and writer, 1914-2004)

ILLUSIONS : The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. (Alexander Pushkin: Russian poet, playwright, and novelist who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, 1799-1837)

ILLUSIONS : The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. (Arthur Miller: U.S. playwright and essayist, 1915-2005)

ILLUSIONS : There is no greater illusion than fear. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

IMAGE : In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. (S. J. Hayakawa: Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry, who served as U.S. Senator from California, 1906-1992)

IMAGES : Will we . . . become too easily accustomed to verisimilar rather than true things, preferring appearance to reality? (Christine Rosen: U.S. senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advance Studies in Culture, Born 1973)

IMAGINATION : 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)

IMAGINATION : All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination. (Unknown Source: )

IMAGINATION : An idea is salvation by imagination. (Frank L. Wright: U.S. architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, 1867-1959)

IMAGINATION : Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

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

IMAGINATION : Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

IMAGINATION : Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. (John Dewey: U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952)

IMAGINATION : Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. (German Proverb: )

IMAGINATION : He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. (Joseph Joubert: French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

IMAGINATION : How do you look for life that may not be life as we know it? (Ken Farley: U.S. geochemist and chair of the Division of Geological and Planetary sciences at the California Institute of Technology, Born 1964)

IMAGINATION : I am certain of . . . the truth of imagination. (John Keats: English Romantic poet, 1795-1821)

IMAGINATION : Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match. (Ingrid Bengis: U.S. teacher, business woman, and writer about love, hate, and sexuality, 1944-2017)

IMAGINATION : Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. (Gilbert Parker: Canadian novelist and British politician, 1862-1932)

IMAGINATION : Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the world. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

IMAGINATION : Imagination is the eye of the soul. (Joseph Joubert: French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

IMAGINATION : Live out of your imagination, not your history. (Stephen Covey: U.S. educator, author, and businessman, 1932-2012)

IMAGINATION : Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

IMAGINATION : Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. (Mae C. Jemison: U.S. engineer, physician, former NASA astronaut when she became the first African-American woman to travel into space on the Space Shuttle Endeavor, Born, 1956)

IMAGINATION : One trains one's mind to go visiting. (Hannah Arendt: German-born, U.S. political theorist who is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, 1906-1975)

IMAGINATION : 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)

IMAGINATION : The human race is governed by its imagination. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

IMAGINATION : The man who has no imagination has no wings. (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016)

IMAGINATION : 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)

IMAGINATION : The power of imagination makes us infinite. (John Muir: Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness, 1838-1914)

IMAGINATION : 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)

IMAGINATION : The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

IMAGINATION : There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977)

IMAGINATION : 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)

IMAGINATION : What you can imagine depends on what you know. (Dan Dennett: U.S. philosopher and cognitive scientist, 1942-2024)

IMAGINATION : You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

IMITATION : A good imitation is the most perfect originality. (Unknown Source: )

IMITATION : Imitation is a necessity of human nature. (Oliver W. Holmes Sr.: U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)

IMITATION : Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery. (Walter Colton: U.S. naval chaplain, author, and co-publisher of California's first newspaper, 1797-1851)

IMITATION : Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

IMITATION : Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. (Charles C. Colton: English cleric, writer, and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832)

IMITATION : It is better to fail in originality than to success in imitation. (Herman Melville: U.S. novelist, short-story writer, 1819-1891)

IMITATION : To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation. (George C. Lichtenberg: German experimental physicist, satirist, and Anglophile, 1742-1799,)

IMITATION : We are, in truth, more than a half of what we are by imitation. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)

IMMEASURABILITY : 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)

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

IMMIGRANTS : They wanted to bury us, but they didn't know we were seeds. (Paola S. Valdez: U.S. postgraduate researcher with the Brené Brown Education and Research Group promoting racial justice)

IMMIGRATION : A harbor . . . is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return. (Sarah O. Jewett: U.S. poet and novelist, 1849-1909)

IMMIGRATION : Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. (Robert Orben: U.S. professional comedy writer, magician, and presidential speech writer, Born 1927)

IMMIGRATION : The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square. (Unknown Source: )

IMMIGRATION (U.S.A.) : The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau. (Unknown Source: )

IMMORALITY : If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

IMMORALITY : There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. (Paul Bourget: French novelist, critic, and a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1852-1935))

IMMORTALITY : He [Shakespeare] was not of an age but for all time. (Ben Jonson: English playwright and poet, who is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, 1572-1637)

IMMORTALITY : I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying. (Woody Allen: U.S. director, writer, actor, and comedian who's been highly ranked as a great stand-up comedian, Born, 1935)

IMMORTALITY : Life is the childhood of our immortality. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

IMMORTALITY : Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

IMMORTALITY : One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

IMMORTALITY : The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. (John Q. Adams: U.S. politician who served as the sixth President of the United States, 1767-1848)

IMMORTALITY : The key to immorality is first living a life worth remembering. (Bruce Lee: Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor whose career spanned Hong Kong and the United States, 1940-1973)

IMPACT : Be not simply good; be good for something. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

IMPACT : 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)

IMPACT : If you aren't making waves, you aren't kicking hard enough. (Unknown Source: )

IMPACT : 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)

IMPACT : If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960)

IMPACT : Life is about making an impact, not making an income. (Kevin Kruse: U.S. historian and professor at Princeton University, Born 1972)

IMPACT : No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. (Robin Williams: U.S. actor and comedian, 1951-2014)

IMPACT : People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it. (Terry Pratchett: English author of fantasy novels, 1948-2015)

IMPACT : Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. (Roy T. Bennett: U.S. inspirational author, 1957-2018)

IMPACT : What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. (Pericles: Greek statesman and general of Athens during its golden age, c.495—c.406 B.C.E.)

IMPACT : When you say ignorant things about women in power, they don’t hear you. But your daughters do. Your mother does. Your sisters and nieces hear you too. (Unknown Source: )

IMPARTIALITY : He who experiences the unity of life, sees his own Self in all beings, all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

IMPATIENCE : 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)

IMPEACHMENT : 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)

IMPERIALISM : There isn't a single square inch of the world that hasn't been stolen. In other words, there is no place in the world that has not been stolen or taken from someone else. Countries talk about hereditary borders, but such talk is nonsense There has always been someone else there before. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

Impermanence : By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. (Rabindranath Tagore: a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)

IMPLEMENTATION : In the sales profession, the real work begins after the sale is made. (Brian Tracy: Canadian-U.S. motivational public speaker and self-development author, Born 1944)

IMPOSSIBILITY : All things are possible until they are proved impossible--and even the impossible may only be so as of now. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

IMPOSSIBILITY : An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were. (Henry S. Haskins: U.S. stockbroker and man of letters, 1875-1957)

IMPOSSIBILITY : I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. (Werner Von Braun: German-American aerospace engineer and space architect, 1912-1977)

IMPOSSIBILITY : If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable. (Murray Bookchin: U.S. libertarian socialist author, historian, and political theorist, who was a pioneer in the ecology movement, 1921-2006)

IMPOSSIBILITY : Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible’! (Audrey Hepburn: British actress and humanitarian who was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Golden Age of Hollywood, 1929-1993)

IMPOSSIBILITY : The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. (Dorothea Brande: U.S. writer and editor, 1893-1948)

IMPOSSIBILITY : What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four. (Unknown Source: )

IMPROBABILITY : Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense. (George Ade: U.S. writer, 1866-1944)

IMPROVEMENT : Better is the enemy of good. (Voltaire: )

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

IMPROVEMENT : The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. (Dan Reeves: U.S. Athlete and head coach of the National Football League, 1944-2022)

IMPROVEMENT : To change and to improve are two different things. (German Proverb: )

IMPROVISATION : If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor. (Joseph Campbell: U.S. mythologist, writer, and lecturer, 1904-l987)

IMPROVISATION : Life is a lot like jazz . . . . it's best when you improvise. (George Gershwin: U.S. composer and pianist, 1898-1937)

IMPULSE : False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859)

INACCURACIES : 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)

INACTION : A man of words and not of deeds / Is like a garden full of weeds. (Unknown Source: )

INACTION : A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. (Percy B. Green: Writer and author of "A History of Nursery Rhymes," 1897-1977)

INACTION : A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. (John S. Mill: British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873)

INACTION : After all is said and done, more is said than done (Aesop Fable: )

INACTION : Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. (Italian Proverb: )

INACTION : Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. (Christina Rossetti: English children's poet, 1830-1894)

INACTION : 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.)

INACTION : If we rest, we rust! (Ann Richards: U.S. politician and governor of the state of Texas, 1933-2006)

INACTION : In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

INACTION : It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. (Moliere: French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature and whose plays have been translated into every major living language, 1622-1673)

INACTION : It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. (Joanna Field: British author and psychoanalyst, 1900-1998)

INACTION : The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. (Unknown Source: )

INACTION : 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)

INACTION : What you don't do can be a destructive force. (Eleanor Roosevelt: U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)

INACTIVISM : 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)

INACTIVITY : The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

INCARCERATION : The U.S. incarcerates more people than China—an authoritarian state—with 4 times the U.S. population. (Mike Lofgren: U.S congressional aide for 28 years and author of "The Deep State")

INCLUSION : America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. (Louis Brandeis: U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the 'People's Lawyer,' 1856-1941)

INCLUSION : Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance. (Verna Myers: U.S. diversity consultant, author, speaker, lawyer, and corporate executive)

INCLUSION : Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. (Wendell Berry: U.S. farmer, environmental activist, and cultural critic, Born 1934)

INCLUSION : Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

INCLUSION : He drew a circle that shut me out / But love and I had the wit to win / We drew a circle that took him in. (Edwin Markham: U.S. social protest poet and Poet Laureate of the state of Oregon, 1852-1940)

INCLUSION : It takes all sorts of people to make a world. (Douglas W. Jerrold: English dramatist and writer, 1803-1857)

Income : Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

Income : Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip. (John Locke: English philosopher, 1632-1704)

INCOMPETENCY : O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen. (: )

INCOMPLETENESS : Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. (Christina Rossetti: English children's poet, 1830-1894)

INCONSISTENCY : Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent. (Unknown Source: )

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

INCONVENIENCE : Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better (Richard Hooker: U.S. writer and surgeon , 1924-1997)

INDEBTEDNESS : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch—free from the past or un-indebted to others—could not conceivably be more wrong. (Unknown Source: )

INDEBTEDNESS : We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. (John Buchan: Scottish poet, novelist, historian, and politician, 1875-1940)

INDECISION : Not to decide is to decide. (Harvey Cox: U.S. theologian who served as the Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, Born 1929)

INDECISION : Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. (Laurence J. Peter: Canadian educator best known for the formulation of the 'Peter Principle- managers rise to the level of their incompetence,' 1919-1990)

INDEPENDENCE : I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

INDEPENDENCE : Independence is happiness. (Susan B. Anthony: U.S. Quaker social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement, 1820-1906)

INDEPENDENCE : Two roads diverged in the wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

INDICATIONS : Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. (Unknown Source: )

INDIFFERENCE : Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else? (Golda Meir: Israeli teacher, kibbutznik, stateswoman, politician, and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel — Israel’s first and only woman to hold the office, known as the ‘Iron Lady’ of Israeli politics, 1917-1951)

INDIFFERENCE : He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound. (Unknown Source: )

INDIFFERENCE : 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.)

INDIFFERENCE : I can accept failure. But I can’t accept not trying. (Michael Jordan: U.S. businessman and former professional basketball player, Born 2963)

INDIFFERENCE : In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. (Elie Wiesel: Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, 1928-2016)

INDIFFERENCE : It is not opposition but indifference which separates men (Mary P. Follett: U.S. social worker, pioneer in the fields of organizational theory, who has been called the 'Mother of Modern Management', 1868-1933)

INDIFFERENCE : The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. (Beth Myerson: U.S. politician, model, and television actress who in 1945 became the first Jewish Miss America, 1924-2014)

INDIFFERENCE : The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. (Alighieri Dante: Italian poet of the Middle Ages, 1265-1321)

INDIFFERENCE : The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived. (Ann Patchett: U.S. Prize-winning author, Born, 1963)

INDIFFERENCE : The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent. (Unknown Source: )

INDIFFERENCE : The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

INDIFFERENCE : 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)

INDIFFERENCE : There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. (Charles Curtis: U.S. attorney and politician who served as the 31st U.S. vice-president, 1860-1936)

INDIFFERENCE : Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful. (Paulo Freire: Brazilian educator and philosopher who authored "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," 1921-1997)

INDIFFERENCE : 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)

INDIVIDUALISM : Each and every one of us is a unique musical instrument that echoes her/his distinctive melody. Together we construct the world’s orchestra that makes the universe work. (Unknown Source: )

INDIVIDUALISM : Each living creature is a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars of heaven. (Unknown Source: )

INDIVIDUALISM : If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

INDIVIDUALISM : The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

INDIVIDUALISM : Think for yourself and let others enjoy the right to do the same. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

INDIVIDUALISM : To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. (Rudyard Kipling: English journalist, short-story writer, poet, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1865-1936)

INDIVIDUALITY : Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you. (Margaret Thatcher: British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office - nicknamed the 'Iron Lady,' 1925-2013)

INDIVIDUALITY : 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)

INDUSTRIALISTS : I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers. (Paul Getty: U.S.-born British petrol-industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company and who in 1957 was named by 'Forbes' magazine as the world’s richest private citizen, 1892-1976)

INEFFICIENCY : A filing cabinet is a place where you can lose things systematically. (Unknown Source: )

INEFFICIENCY : There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005)

INEQUALITY : Inequality asphyxiates hope! (Darren Walker: U.S. nonprofit executive who serves as president of the Ford Foundation, Born 1959)

INEQUALITY : It is said you can try to leave your caste, but caste never leaves you. (Unknown Source: )

INEQUALITY : Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why, as men do on land, do the great fish eat up the little ones? (Unknown Source: )

INEQUALITY : The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world. (: )

INEQUALITY : The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept. (Thucydides: Athenian historian and military general, c. 460 B.C.E.—400 B.C.E.)

INEQUALITY : We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. (Konrad Adenauer: German statesman, 1876-1967)

INEQUALITY (U.S.A.) : The Constitution does not provide for first- and second-class citizens. (Wendell L. Wilkie: U.S. lawyer, politician, and corporate executive, 1892-1944)

INEQUITY : Enhancing the freedom of some usually means depriving the freedom of others. (Unknown Source: )

INEQUITY : How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy. (Terence: Roman playwright during the Roman Republic, of Berber descent, c. 170—160 B.C.E.)

INEQUITY : I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. (Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

INEQUITY : In the field of public education, the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. (Earl Warren: U.S. politician and jurist, who served as the Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States, 1891-1974)

INEQUITY : Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. (Oliver Goldsmith: Anglo-Irish writer and physician, 1730-1774)

INEQUITY : The future is already here; it's just not evenly distributed. (William Gibson: U.S.-Canadian speculative fiction writer who is widely credited with pioneering modern science fiction by exploring the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans, Born 1948)

INEQUITY : The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

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

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

INEVITABILITY : When its time has come, the prey goes to the hunter. (Persian Proverb: )

INFECTION : Bacteria and other microorganisms find it easier to infect people who worry and fret. (Leo Rangell: U.S. psychoanalyst and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, 1913-2011)

INFIDEL : Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor" -- infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. (Wendell Phillips: U.S. attorney, abolitionist, and advocate for Native Americans, 1811-1884)

INFIDELITY : One man; two loves. No good ever comes of that. (Euripides: One of the three ancient Greek tragedians, Aeschylus and Sophocles, who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, c.485—406 B.C.E.)

INFIDELITY : Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

INFINITY : The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. (Ivy B. Priest: U.S. politician who served as U.S. Treasurer and California State Treasurer, 1905-1975)

INFIRMITIES : 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)

INFLATION : Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. (Milton Friedman: U.S. economist who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1912-2006)

INFLUENCE : Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force. (Angela Merici: Italian religious educator who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. 1474-1540)

INFLUENCE : For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. (Ingrid Bengis: U.S. teacher, business woman, and writer about love, hate, and sexuality, 1944-2017)

INFLUENCE : I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. (Mother Teresa: Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent most of her life in Calcutta, India, 1910-1997)

INFLUENCE : 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)

INFLUENCE : The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. (John Q. Adams: U.S. politician who served as the sixth President of the United States, 1767-1848)

INFLUENCE : You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time. (John Knox: Scottish theologian and writer who was a leader of the Protestant Reformation, 1514-1572)

INFLUENCERS : 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)

INFORMATION : A man's opinion is no better than his information. (Lyndon B. Johnson: U.S. politician who served as the 36th President of the United States, 1908-1973)

INFORMATION : I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. (Woodrow Wilson: U.S. politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States, 1856-1924)

INFORMATION : Those things that hurt, instruct. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

INFORMATION : Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? (T. S. Eliot: U.S.- born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature who at age 39 became a British subject, subsequently renouncing his U.S. passport, 1888-1965)

INGENUITY : Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something. (Michael Lopp: U.S. software engineering manager, and webcomic author. Born 1970)

INGENUITY : 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)

INGENUITY : To venture is to cause anxiety, but not to venture is to lose oneself. (Soren Kierkegaard: Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author, 1813-1855)

INHERITANCE : Misers aren't fun to live without they make wonderful ancestors. (David Brenner: U.S. stand-up comedian, actor, and author, 1936-2014)

INHERITANCE : Some people make money the old-fashioned way. They inherit it. (Unknown Source: )

INHERITANCE : Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971)

INHERITANCE : The only foolproof path to weather is inheritance. (Unknown Source: )

INHERITANCE : When leaving an inheritance to one's heirs, the perfect amount is enough money so they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing. (Warren Buffett: U.S. business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, Born 1930)

INHERITANCE : When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is to die at once. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

INHERITANCE : Where there's a will, I want to be in it. (Unknown Source: )

INIQUITY : Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. (Thorstein Veblen: Norwegian-American economist and sociologist who emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism and coined the concept of 'Conspicuous consumption,' 1857-1929)

INITIATIVE : A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. (Chinese Proverb: )

INITIATIVE : All serious daring starts from within. (Eudora Welty: U.S. short-story writer, novelist, and photographer who wrote about the American South, 1909-2001)

INITIATIVE : As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come. (Ernest Hemingway: U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)

INITIATIVE : 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)

INITIATIVE : Experience is not what happens to people; it is what they do with what happens to them. (Unknown Source: )

INITIATIVE : Gather ye rose-buds while ye may / Old Time is still a-flying / And this same flower that smiles today / Tomorrow will be dying. (Robert Herrick: English lyric poet and cleric, 1591-1674)

INITIATIVE : Go to where the silence is and say something. (Unknown Source: )

INITIATIVE : Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt. (James Northcote: English actor and producer, Born 1987)

INITIATIVE : Happiness depends upon ourselves. (Unknown Source: )

INITIATIVE : 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)

INITIATIVE : Have the courage to act instead of react. (Unknown Source: )

INITIATIVE : He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. (Unknown Source: )

INITIATIVE : He that would have fruit must climb the tree. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

INITIATIVE : He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him. (Dutch Proverb: )

INITIATIVE : I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. (Pablo Picasso: Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

INITIATIVE : Ideas won’t keep; something needs to be done about them. (Alfred N. Whitehead: English mathematician and philosopher whose studies have found application to a wide variety of disciplines, 1861-1947)

INITIATIVE : If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. (Milton Berle: U.S. comedian, actor. and the first major U.S. television star, known as 'Uncle Miltie,' 1908-2002)

INITIATIVE : If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one. (Dolly Parton: U.S. singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music, Born 1946)

INITIATIVE : If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. (J. M. Power: British author)

INITIATIVE : If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. (Jonathan Winters: U.S. comedian, actor, author, television host, and artist, 1925-2013)

INITIATIVE : Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. (Brendan F. Behan: Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964)

INITIATIVE : It is a never ending battle — the struggle to be fully alive. (Nell Dunn: English playwright, screenwriter and author, Born 1936)

INITIATIVE : It's never too late to be what you might have been. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

INITIATIVE : Jump and the net will appear. (Mick Ebeling: U.S. film, television producer, author, and entrepreneur, Born 1973)

INITIATIVE : Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. (Bruce Lee: Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor whose career spanned Hong Kong and the United States, 1940-1973)

INITIATIVE : Life is a dance between making it happen . . . and letting it happen. (Arianna Huffington: Greek- American author, columnist, and co-founder and chief editor of 'The Huffington Post,' Born 1950)

INITIATIVE : Look around for a place to sow a few seeds. (Henry Van Dyke: U.S. poet, 1852-1933)

INITIATIVE : Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. (Ray Kroc: U.S businessman who purchased the fast food company McDonald's in 1961, and is credited with having turned it into the most successful fast food corporation in the world, 1902-1984)

INITIATIVE : Motivation triggers luck. (Mike Wallace: U.S. journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality, 1918-2012)

INITIATIVE : No one can build you a bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

INITIATIVE : 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.)

INITIATIVE : Start where you are, but don't stay there. (Unknown Source: )

INITIATIVE : 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)

INITIATIVE : Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

INITIATIVE : The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now. (Unknown Source: )

INITIATIVE : The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

INITIATIVE : The secret of getting ahead is getting started. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

INITIATIVE : The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

INITIATIVE : The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape. (Edward de Bono: Maltese physician, psychologist, author, and inventor, Born 1933)

INITIATIVE : The world is only what you shape it to be. (J. K. Rowling: British novelist who is best known for writing the 'Harry Potter' fantasy series., Born 1965)

INITIATIVE : Tomorrow life is too late: live today. (Unknown Source: )

INITIATIVE : Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. (Henry Van Dyke: U.S. poet, 1852-1933)

INITIATIVE : We don't need to see where the staircase leads to take the first step. (Natalia Vie: U.S. Latina fencing champion who competed in the 2012 Olympics, Born 1986)

INITIATIVE : We must each ask ourselves: "What is the right and creative thing for me to do in this hour"—and do it! (Unknown Source: )

INITIATIVE : We're here to put a dent in the universe. (Steve Jobs: U.S. business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor, 1955-2011)

INITIATIVE : When the going gets tough, the tough get going. (Frank Leahy: U.S. football coach and professional sports executive who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach, 1908-1973)

INITIATIVE : You, yourself, must make the effort. The buddhas are only teachers. (Unknown Source: )

INJUSTICE : He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. (Unknown Source: )

INJUSTICE : Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

INJUSTICE : Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

INJUSTICE : That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man. (Henry George: U.S. economist, journalist, and philosopher, 1839-1897)

INJUSTICE : We cannot see injustice and say nothing, do nothing! Not if we are really to be authentically spiritual rather than simply pious actors in the game called ‘church.’ (Joan Chittister: U.S. Benedictine nun, theologian, author, speaker, and co-chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women.)

INNOCENCE : Ignorance is not innocence but sin. (Robert Browning: English poet and playwright, 1812-1889)

INNOCENCE : It is better ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. (William Blackstone: English jurist, judge, and politician who is most noted for writing the 'Commentaries on the Laws of England,' 1728-1780)

INNOCENCE : It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

INNOCENCE : Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. (Mary Astor: U.S. actress who began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies, 1906-1987)

INNOCENCE : She fear’d no danger, for she knew no sin. (John Dryden: English poet, literary critic, translator, playwright, and England's first Poet Laureate, 1631-1700)

INNOCENCE : The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

INNOCENCE : 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.)

INNOCENCE : 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)

INNOVATION : A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. (Steve Jobs: U.S. business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor, 1955-2011)

INNOVATION : As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

INNOVATION : Even if you don't have the perfect idea to begin with, you can likely adapt. (Victoria Ransom: New Zealand entrepreneur who founded founded Wildfire Interactive, a social marketing software company)

INNOVATION : For big disruptive ideas, look for people who have a healthy disregard for the impossible. (Larry Page: U.S. computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin, Born 1973)

INNOVATION : Here’s to the crazy ones — the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. (Steve Jobs: U.S. business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor, 1955-2011)

INNOVATION : I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

INNOVATION : I happened on the idea of fitting an engine to a bicycle simply because I did not want to ride crowded trains and buses. (Soichire Honda: Japanese engineer and industrialist who In 1948 established the Honda Motor Co., 1906-1991)

INNOVATION : If Henry Ford had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)

INNOVATION : If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. (Juan R. Jimenez: Spanish poet who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1881-1958)

INNOVATION : If you aren't making waves, you aren't kicking hard enough. (Unknown Source: )

INNOVATION : New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

INNOVATION : One trains one's mind to go visiting. (Hannah Arendt: German-born, U.S. political theorist who is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, 1906-1975)

INNOVATION : Some of the world's greatest marksmen shoot the arrow and then draw the target. (Unknown Source: )

INNOVATION : Take a simple idea and take it seriously. (Charles Munger: U.S. businessman, investor, and philanthropist who was vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and an outspoken critic of excessive executive pay, 1924-2023)

INNOVATION : The best way to predict the future is to create it. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005)

INNOVATION : The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. (Dennis Gabor: Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics, 1900-1979)

INNOVATION : The man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

INNOVATION : The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

INNOVATION : The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

INNOVATION : There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. (Audre Lorde: U.S. writer, feminist, librarian, and civil rights activist, 1934-1992)

INNOVATION : Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. (James A. Garfield: U.S. politician and 20th president of the United States, serving only six and a half months until his death by assassination, 1831-1881)

INNOVATION : Things that annoy me end up fueling my ideas. (Josh James: U.S. founder and CEO of Domo, a software company, as well as previous co-founder and CEO of Omniture, a web analytics company, Born 1973)

INNOVATION : We have no money, so we will have to think. (Unknown Source: )

INNOVATION : We're here to put a dent in the universe. (Steve Jobs: U.S. business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor, 1955-2011)

INNOVATION : When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts. (Larry Ellison: U.S. business magnate and investor who co-founded and served as the C.E.O. of the Oracle Corporation, Born 1944)

INNOVATION : You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct (Chris Hughes: U.S. Internet entrepreneur entrepreneur and author who co-founded the online social directory and networking site Facebook,Born 19983)

INNOVATION : You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. (Buckminster Fuller: U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983)

INNOVATION : 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)

INQUIRY : It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

INSANITY : Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

INSANITY : Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children. (Sam Levenson: U.S. humorist, television host, and journalist, 1911-1980)

INSANITY : Insanity is relative. It depends on who is locked in what cage. (Ray Bradbury: U.S. author and screenwriter who wrote in a variety of genres, 1920-2012)

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

INSECURITY : 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)

INSECURITY : The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. (Mother Teresa: Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent most of her life in Calcutta, India, 1910-1997)

INSENSITIVITY : Nearsightedness of the eyes is bad, but not nearly as bad as nearsightedness of the heart. (Unknown Source: )

INSIGHT : Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. (William E. Channing: U.S. Unitarian preacher and one of Unitarian's foremost theologians, 1780-1842)

INSIGHT : It takes less courage to be the only one to find fault than to be the only one to find favor. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Austrian writer and nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1830-1916)

INSIGHT : It takes only a little light to put out darkness (Unknown Source: )

INSIGHT : Take a simple idea and take it seriously. (Charles Munger: U.S. businessman, investor, and philanthropist who was vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and an outspoken critic of excessive executive pay, 1924-2023)

INSIGHT : The best vision is insight. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

INSIGHT : The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

INSIGHT : The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Johann (Jean) P. Richter: German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. 1763-1825)

INSIGHT : The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. (Richard Hamming: U.S. mathematician whose work had many implications for computer engineering, 1915-1918)

INSIGHT : This is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. (Doris Lessing: British-Zimbabwean novelist, 1919-2013)

INSIGHT : When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before. (Clifton Fadiman: U.S. editor, critic, radio and television personality, 1904-1999)

INSINCERITY : A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. (Percy B. Green: Writer and author of "A History of Nursery Rhymes," 1897-1977)

INSINCERITY : If you want people to think you are wise, agree with them. (Yiddish Proverb: )

INSINCERITY : Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. (James A. Froude: English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor, 1818-1894)

INSINCERITY : 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)

INSINCERITY : The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. (George Orwell: English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, known for his outspoken support of democratic socialism, 1903-1950)

INSINCERITY : The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. (Anne M. Lindbergh: U.S. writer and aviator, 1906-2001)

INSOMNIA : Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals . . . a nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius. (Vladimir Nabokov: Russian-born novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist, 1899-1977)

INSPIRATION : Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. (Stephen King: U.S. author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, horror, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels, Born, 1947)

INSPIRATION : For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

INSPIRATION : If not us, who? If not now, when? (Hillel (the Elder): Jewish religious leader, sage, and scholar, 110 B.C.E.-10 A.D.)

INSPIRATION : If one lights a fire for others, it will also brighten one’s own way. (Buddhist Proverb: )

INSPIRATION : If some of us have seen stars, it is often because a teacher tilted our heads toward the heavens. (Unknown Source: )

INSPIRATION : If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one. (Dolly Parton: U.S. singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music, Born 1946)

INSPIRATION : Inspiration and genius—one and the same. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

INSPIRATION : Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. (Ned Rorem: U.S. composer and diarist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his music, Born 1923)

INSPIRATION : Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. (Brendan F. Behan: Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964)

INSPIRATION : Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly. (Unknown Source: )

INSPIRATION : Openly share and talk to people about your idea. Use their lack of interest or doubt to fuel your motivation to make it happen. (Todd Garland: U.S. founder and CEO of BuySellAds)

INSPIRATION : The best practice is inspired by theory. The best theory is inspired by practice (Donald Knuth: U.S. computer scientist, mathematician, and professor, Born 1938)

INSPIRATION : The measure of power is not based on how many you beat down but how many you lift up. (Unknown Source: )

INSPIRATION : The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well. (John D. Rockefeller Sr.: U.S. business magnate and philanthropist who is widely considered the wealthiest U.S. American of all time, and the richest person in modern history, 1839-1937)

INSPIRATION : To venture is to cause anxiety, but not to venture is to lose oneself. (Soren Kierkegaard: Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author, 1813-1855)

INSPIRATION : 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)

INSTINCT : Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. (Don Marquis: U.S. humorist, journalist, and playwright, 1878-1937)

INSTINCT : If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. (Will Cuppy: U.S. humorist and literary critic. 1884-1949)

INSTINCT : Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence. (Denis Diderot: French Enlightenment philosopher and art critic, 1713-1784)

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

INSTINCT : Instinct is the nose of the mind. (Madame de Girardin: French author, 1804-1855)

INSTINCT : Instinct is untaught ability. (Alexander Bain: Scottish philosopher and educationalist who founded "Mind," the first ever journal of psychology and analytical philosophy, and was the leading figure in establishing and applying the scientific method to psychology, 1818-1903)

INSTINCT : Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

INSTINCT : You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct (Chris Hughes: U.S. Internet entrepreneur entrepreneur and author who co-founded the online social directory and networking site Facebook,Born 19983)

INSTITUTIONS : An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason. (Joseph McCabe: )

INSTITUTIONS : An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

INSTITUTIONS : Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes. (Henry George: U.S. economist, journalist, and philosopher, 1839-1897)

INSTITUTIONS : Sometimes our institutions are like sand dunes in the desert—shaped more by influences than purposes. (John W. Gardner: U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1912-2002)

INSTITUTIONS : The seeds of poverty are with institutions, not individuals. (Unknown Source: )

INSTRUCTION : Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. (Anna Freud: Austrian-British psychoanalyst, 1895-1982)

INSULTS : An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. (Lord Stanhope: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)

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

INTEGRATION : Find some way in your life to be in relationship with working class and poor people. (Deepak Bhargava: Indian-U.S. reform advocate and former director of the nonprofit Center for Community Change, Washington, D.C., Born 1968)

INTEGRITY : A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

INTEGRITY : Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened. (Billy Graham: U.S. religious evangelist and civil rights advocate, 1918-2018)

INTEGRITY : Don't be afraid to admit you were wrong. It's like saying you're wiser today than you were yesterday. (Unknown Source: )

INTEGRITY : Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you. (Ruth B. Ginsburg: U.S. lawyer, jurist, and the second female Associate Justice to be confirmed to the U.S Supreme Court, Born 1933)

INTEGRITY : I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. (Pietro Aretino: Italian satirist and dramatist, 1492-1556)

INTEGRITY : If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake. (Louisa M. Alcott: U.S. novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel "Little Women," 1832-1888)

INTEGRITY : Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide. (Zip Ziglar: U.S. author, salesman, and motivational speaker, 1926-2012)

INTEGRITY : Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity. (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980)

INTEGRITY : It has always seemed to me that the test of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. (Chinua Achebe: Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic, 1930-2013)

INTEGRITY : Know your truth and tell your truth. (Kent Matthies: U.S. psychotherapist)

INTEGRITY : Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. (J. Pettit-Senn: Swiss poet, 1792-1870)

INTEGRITY : One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. (Chinua Achebe: Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic, 1930-2013)

INTEGRITY : The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. (Philo Junius: British writer (Pseudonym) who in the late 18th century wrote a series of controversial and influential letters written anonymously in the Public Advertiser who wrote 1769-1771)

INTEGRITY : The most expensive thing in the world is trust, which takes years to earn and only a matter of seconds to lose. (Unknown Source: )

INTEGRITY : The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

INTEGRITY : The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

INTEGRITY : 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)

INTEGRITY : 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)

INTEGRITY : Try not to become a man of success, rather a man of value. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

INTEGRITY : What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your tongue. (Jewish proverb: )

INTEGRITY : You never go wrong when you take the high road—it's less crowded up there. (Gayle King: U.S. television personality, journalist, and author, Born 1954)

INTEGRITY : 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)

INTELLECTUALITY : Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)

INTELLECTUALS : 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)

INTELLECTUALS : An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. (Charles Bukowski: German–American poet, novelist, and short story writer, 1920-1994)

INTELLECTUALS : Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

INTELLIGENCE : A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but a wonderful thing to invest in. (Arthur Fletcher: U.S. government official, widely referred to as the 'Father of Affirmative Action,' 1924-2005)

INTELLIGENCE : A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance. (Niccolo Machiavelli: Italian diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who has often been called the 'Father of modern political philosophy and political science,' 1469-1527)

INTELLIGENCE : If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. (Will Cuppy: U.S. humorist and literary critic. 1884-1949)

INTELLIGENCE : Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. (Stephen Hawking: English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Born 1942)

INTELLIGENCE : Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgment. (Sydney J. Harris: U.S. journalist and columnist, 1917-1986)

INTELLIGENCE : The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that they haven't attempted to contact us. (Bill Watterson: U.S. cartoonist and the author of the comic strip 'Calvin and Hobbes,' Born 1958)

INTENTIONALITY : Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. (John C. Maxwell: U.S. author, speaker, and pastor who has written many books, primarily focusing on leadership, Born 1947)

INTENTIONALITY : There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look. (Henri Matisse: French visual artist, known as a painter, print maker, and sculptor, 1869-1954)

INTENTIONS : 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)

INTENTIONS : In taming our inner dragons, the energy of old—and, often, unconscious habits and personal complexes—may too frequently overpower our fragile intentions. (: )

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

INTENTIONS : Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ. (Moliere: French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature and whose plays have been translated into every major living language, 1622-1673)

INTENTIONS : The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

INTENTIONS : The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. (John Burroughs: U.S. naturalist and nature essayist, 1837-1921)

INTENTIONS : With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

INTER-RELATEDNESS : There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. (Ansel Adams: U.S. landscape photographer and environmentalist, who received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the U.S. Presidential Award of Freedom, 1902-1984)

INTERACTION : 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)

INTERCONNECTIONS : As humans we strain to escape our straightjackets, to bend, and entwine— and thus cross-fertilization occurs in the form of enriched science, literature, food, etc. (Pallavi Aiyar: Indian journalist and award-winning foreign correspondent)

INTERDISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE : 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)

INTERESTS : 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)

INTERESTS : The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest. (Unknown Source: )

INTERNAT'L BORDERS : The situation with international borders is something like living with your wife. Sometimes it is difficult and even irritating to live with her, but it is always impossible to live without her. (Lester B. Pearson: Canadian politician, diplomat, statesman, and scholar who served as the 14th prime minister of Canada, 1897-1972)

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION : 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)

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION : Ask not what international exchanges can do for you as Americans, but what you as Americans overseas can do to contribute to the growing global community and the advancement of peace. (Anne Reynolds: U.S. zoologist and university administrator, the only person to have headed two (CSU and CUNY) of the three largest systems of higher education in the United States, Born 1938)

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION : International education turns nations into people. (William Fulbright: U.S. senator who supported the creation of the United Nations, 1905-1995)

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION : Internationalizing the university involves internationalizing the faculty and curricularizing the international. (Unknown Source: )

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION : The world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it. (Paul Bowles: U.S. expatriate composer and author in Morocco, 1910-1999)

INTERNATIONALISM : I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. (Edith Cavell: British humanitarian and nurse who is celebrated for saving the lives of World War I soldiers from both sides without discrimination, 1865-1915)

INTERNATIONALISM : The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? (Pablo Casals: Spanish cellist, conductor, and composer, 1876-1973)

INTERNATIONALISM : While we all carry a national passport out of necessity, ‘the world is our country’. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

INTERPRETATION : No two persons ever read the same book. (Edmund Wilson: U.S. writer and critic who explored Freudian and Marxist themes and who influenced many U.S. authors, 1895-1972)

INTERPRETATION : Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. (Gustave Flaubert: French novelist and author of "Madame Bovary," 1821-1880)

INTERPRETATION : We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things (Epictetus: Greek Stoic philosopher who was born into slavery and then lived in Rome until his banishment, Died 135 A.D.)

INTERPRETATION : We tell ourselves stories in order to live. (Joan Didion: U.S. writer and nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography, Born 1934)

INTERROGATION : That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning. (John G. Diefenbaker: Canadian politician and Canada's 13th prime minister, 1895-1979)

INTERRUPTING : If there's anything I can't stand it's someone who talks while I'm interrupting. (Unknown Source: )

INTIMACY : If you want to enjoy intimacy, you must learn to enjoy pain. (Marshall Rosenberg: U.S. psychologist, mediator, author, and teacher who developed the Non-violent Communication (NVC) process for helping to resolve conflict, 1934-2015)

INTOLERANCE : Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. (Theodor W. Adorno: German philosopher, sociologist, and composer, 1903-1969)

INTOLERANCE : It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary! (Gabriel Mirabeau: French leader of the early stages of the French Revolution, 1749-1791)

INTRODUCTION : 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)

INTROSPECTION : Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. (Sigmund Freud: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939)

INTRUSIVENESS : The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. (Chinese Proverb: )

INTUITION : I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish. (Buckminster Fuller: U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983)

INTUITION : Intuition and creativity are informed by practice and diligence. (David Kelley: U.S. designer, engineer, professor, and founder of the design firm, Ideo, Born 1951)

INTUITION : The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. (Blaise Pascal: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)

INVENTION : Boredom, like necessity, is very often the mother of invention. (Unknown Source: )

INVENTION : Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer. (Christian Boyee: U.S. writer, 1820-1904)

INVENTION : 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)

INVENTION : New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

INVENTION : Take a simple idea and take it seriously. (Charles Munger: U.S. businessman, investor, and philanthropist who was vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and an outspoken critic of excessive executive pay, 1924-2023)

INVENTION : To venture is to cause anxiety, but not to venture is to lose oneself. (Soren Kierkegaard: Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author, 1813-1855)

INVENTION : Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

INVENTIONS : At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done. Then they begin to hope it can be done. Then they see it can be done. Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. (Frances H. Burnett: British-American novelist and playwright, 1849-1924)

INVENTIONS : Doubt is the father of invention. (GALILEI GALILEO: Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer who has been called the ‘father of observational astronomy,’ and the ‘father of modern physics,’ 1564-1642)

INVENTIONS : Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. (Joyce C. Oates: U.S. author of novels, plays, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction, Born 1938)

INVENTIONS : I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

INVENTIONS : If electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted by electricity. (Samuel Morse: U.S. painter and inventor who contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, 1791-1872)

INVENTIONS : Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science. (Hal Clement: U.S. science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre, 1922-2003)

INVENTIONS : Things that annoy me end up fueling my ideas. (Josh James: U.S. founder and CEO of Domo, a software company, as well as previous co-founder and CEO of Omniture, a web analytics company, Born 1973)

INVENTIONS : Too often we forget that genius ... depends upon the data within its reach, that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions. (Ernest Dimnet: French priest, writer, and lecturer, 1866-1954)

INVENTIONS : What hath God wrought? (TELEGRAPHY: The official first Morse code message transmitted in the U.S., May 24, 1844)

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

INVENTIONS : When 99% of people doubt your idea, you’re either gravely wrong or about to make history. (Scott Belsky: U.S. entrepreneur, author, and early-stage investor best known for co-creating the online portfolio platform, Behance, Inc., Born 1980)

INVENTIONS : When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts. (Larry Ellison: U.S. business magnate and investor who co-founded and served as the C.E.O. of the Oracle Corporation, Born 1944)

INVENTORS : I do not think there is any thrill like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfold into success. Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love—everything. It’s a pity, too, for sometimes we feel so lonely. (Nikola Tesla: Serbian-U.S inventor, engineer, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system, 1856-1943)

INVENTORS : If Henry Ford had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)

INVENTORS : Innovators are inevitably controversial. (Eva L. Gallienne: British-born U.S. stage actress, producer, director, translator, and author, 1899-1991)

INVENTORS : 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)

INVESTIGATION : Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. (G.K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic, who has been referred to as the ‘Prince of Paradox,’ 1874-1936)

INVESTIGATION : Follow the money. (Jeppe G. Gram: Danish screenwriter and co-creator of a Danish television financial crime thriller , Born 1976)

INVESTIGATION : Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM : Democracy dies in the dark. (Unknown Source: )

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM : For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM : Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy. (Wendell L. Wilkie: U.S. lawyer, politician, and corporate executive, 1892-1944)

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM : If I had to choose between a government without newspapers and newspapers without a government, I would unhesitatingly choose the latter. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM : No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM : The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. (George Mason: U.S. planter, politician, and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1725-1792)

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM : The power to investigate is a great public trust. (Emanuel Celler: U.S. statesman, 1888-1981)

INVESTMENT : An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

INVESTMENT : How man millioinaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? (Robert G. Allen: U.S. author and influential investment advisor, Born 1948)

INVESTMENT : If a little money does not go out, great money will not come in. (Chinese Proverb: )

INVESTMENT : If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians. (Warren Buffett: U.S. business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, Born 1930)

INVESTMENT : In investing, what is comfortable is rarely what is profitable. (Robert Arnott: U.S. entrepreneur, investor, editor, and writer, Born 1954)

INVESTMENT : Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

INVESTMENT : Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology. (Seth Klarman: U.S. billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and author, Born 1957)

INVESTMENT : 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)

INVESTMENT : Skin in the game (Nasim Taleb: Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist, Born 1960)

INVESTMENT : 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)

INVESTMENT : You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. (Flip Wilson: U.S. comedian, actor, and host of his television series, for which he earned a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy Awards, 1933-1998)

INVESTMENT : You have to have an egg to make an omelet (Unknown Source: )

INVESTMENTS : Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. (Warren Buffett: U.S. business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, Born 1930)

INVESTMENTS : When 99% of people doubt your idea, you’re either gravely wrong or about to make history. (Scott Belsky: U.S. entrepreneur, author, and early-stage investor best known for co-creating the online portfolio platform, Behance, Inc., Born 1980)

INVINCIBILITY : In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960)

INVOLVEMENT : A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. (Rita M. Brown: U.S. writer and feminist, Born 1944)

INVOLVEMENT : Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

INVOLVEMENT : Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

INVOLVEMENT : Don't count the days, make the days count (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016)

INVOLVEMENT : Get in the water and see what the swim is all about. (Unknown Source: )

INVOLVEMENT : Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. (Emily P. Bissell: U.S. social worker and activist, 1861-1948)

INVOLVEMENT : It is not upon you to finish the task, but you’re not absolved from trying. (Unknown Source: )

INVOLVEMENT : Life is ours to be spent, not something to be saved. (D. H. Lawrence: English writer, novelist, poet, and essayist, 1885-1930)

INVOLVEMENT : Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. (Unknown Source: )

INVOLVEMENT : No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living. (Beynon Ray: U.S. author of self-help books, Died 1969)

INVOLVEMENT : People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. (Unknown Source: )

INVOLVEMENT : Skin in the game (Nasim Taleb: Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist, Born 1960)

INVOLVEMENT : The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. (Alan Watts: British philosopher who interpreted and popularized Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. 1915-1973)

INVOLVEMENT : The proper function of man is to live--not to exist. (Jack London: U.S. novelist, journalist, and activist who earned a large fortune from writing, 1876-1916)

INVOLVEMENT : What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

INVOLVEMENT : When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, say something! Do something! (John Lewis: U.S. civil rights activist and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from Georgia, 1940-2020)

INVOLVEMENT : You can get busy living, or get busy dying. (Frank Darabont: Author and film director of 'The Shawshank Redemption')

INVOLVEMENT : You should make the most of this time and place in your life, for never again will you inhabit an environment so challenging and yet so nurturing, so rigorous and yet so forgiving. (Unknown Source: )

Irrationality : Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth. (Madeleine L'Engle: U.S. writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, 1918-2007)

IRREVERSIBILITY : The die is cast. (Julius Caesar: Roman dictator, politician, and military general who played a critical role in the rise of the Roman Empire, 100—44 B.C.E.)

IRREVOCABILITY : Some things are as irrevocable as a haircut. (Lynwood L. Giacomini: U.S. publishing representative and a bibliophile, 1913-1991)

ITALY : The trouble with eating Italian food is that 5 or 6 days later you’re hungry again. (George Miller: Australian filmmaker best known for his Mad Max franchise, Born 1945)

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