NAIVETE : Dare to be naive. (Buckminster Fuller: U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983)
NAIVETE : Every true genius is bound to be naive. (J.C.F Von Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright, 1864-1937)
NAIVETE : 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)
NAIVETE : Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. (Unknown Source: )
NAMES : The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. (Katherine Paterson: U.S. writer, best known for children's novels, Born 1932)
NAMES : 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)
NAPPING : You know you’ve grown up when a nap is no longer a punishment but a reward. (Unknown Source: )
NARCOTICS : Two great European narcotics: alcohol and Christianity. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
NARROW-MINDEDNESS : Blind zeal can only do harm. (Magnus G. Lichter: German writer, known mostly for his four books of fables, 1719-1783)
NARROW-MINDEDNESS : You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know. (Jerry Garcia: U.S. singer-songwriter, and lead vocalist and guitarist with the rock band the ‘Grateful Dead,’ 1942-1995)
NATIIONHOOD : Were I able to make the ballads of a nation, I need not write its laws. Songs . . . of a period reflect what happened more accurately and honestly. (Andrew Fletcher: Scottish Lord of Saltoun, writer, judge, and politician who was an opponent of England’s incorporation of Scotland, 1655-1716)
NATIONALISM : 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)
NATIONALISM : I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)
NATIONALISM : Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. Never do anything against conscience—even if the state demands it. (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)
NATIONALISM : Patriotism is like the love that a parent has for a child; nationalism is akin to believing that one's child can do no wrong. (Robin Givhan: U.S. fashion editor and Pulitzer Prize winning writer, Born 1964)
NATIONALISM : Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first. Nationalism is when hate for people other than your own comes first. (Charles De Gaulle: French military general and statesman who founded France's Fifth Republic and was elected as the President of France, 1890-1970)
NATIONALISM : 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)
NATIONALISM : The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. (George Orwell: English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, known for his outspoken support of democratic socialism, 1903-1950)
NATIONALITY : Our true nationality is mankind. (H. G. Wells: English writer in many genres, but is now best remembered as the 'Father of Science Fiction,' 1866-1946))
NATIONHOOD : The only real nation is humanity. (Tracy Kidder: U.S. writer of nonfiction books and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Born 1945)
NATURALNESS : Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction. (Somerset W. Maugham: English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, 18874-1965)
NATURE : A natural environment is good for the soul. (Unknown Source: )
NATURE : Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
NATURE : After a debauch of thundershower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow. (Thomas B. Aldrich: U.S. writer, poet, critic, and long-term editor of 'The Atlantic Monthly,' 1836-1907)
NATURE : All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. (Alexander Pope: English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)
NATURE : Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)
NATURE : Art is man's nature; nature is God's art. (Unknown Source: )
NATURE : Choose only one master— Nature. (Rembrandt: Dutch draftsman, painter, and printmaker, who is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art, 1606-1669)
NATURE : Color is the smiles of nature. (Leigh Hunt: English critic, essayist, and poet, 1784-1859)
NATURE : Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)
NATURE : Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. (Douglas W. Jerrold: English dramatist and writer, 1803-1857)
NATURE : Earth laughs in flowers. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
NATURE : Even the lion has to defend himself against flies. (German Proverb: )
NATURE : Everything in nature acts in conformity with law. (Immanuel Kant: German philosopher whose views continue to have a major influence on contemporary philosophy, 1724-1804)
NATURE : Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)
NATURE : Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)
NATURE : Grass is the forgiveness of nature—her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal. (Unknown Source: )
NATURE : He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, explore the glen, stem the torrent, and dare the precipice. (Washington Irving: U.S. short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat, 1783-1859)
NATURE : How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour / And gather honey all the day from every opening flower. (Isaac Watts: English Christian minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician, 1674-1748)
NATURE : I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey—work of the stars. (Walt Whitman: U.S. essayist, journalist, and poet, known as the 'Father of Free Verse,' 1819-1992)
NATURE : I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. (Frank L. Wright: U.S. architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, 1867-1959)
NATURE : I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order. (John Burroughs: U.S. naturalist and nature essayist, 1837-1921)
NATURE : I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. (Willa Cather: U.S. writer of frontier life and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, 1873-1947)
NATURE : I realize there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go. (Jeffrey McDaniel: U.S. poet who is the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Born 1967)
NATURE : I would feel more optimistic about man . . . if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. (E. B. White: U.S. writer and author of the highly acclaimed children's book, "Charlotte'sWeb," 1899-1985)
NATURE : If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages. (Isak Dinesen (Pen name-Karen Blixen): Danish author who wrote in both Danish and English, 1885-1962)
NATURE : If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn. (Bernie S. Siegel: U.S. writer and retired pediatric surgeon, Born 1932)
NATURE : In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. (Robert Ingersoll: U.S. attorney, writer and orator who campaigned in defense of agnosticism and who was nicknamed 'The Great Agnostic,' 1833-1899)
NATURE : In nature, nothing exists alone. (Rachel Carson: U.S. marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose work advanced the global environmental movement, 1907-1964)
NATURE : In nature, there is no such thing as death. From each sad moment of decay, some forms of life arise. (Charles Mackay: Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter, 1814-1889)
NATURE : In the hopes of reaching the moon, men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965)
NATURE : It costs absolutely nothing in nature's way to one day blow us all off the face of the earth or flood the waters of the ocean with her single breath, just to remind man once again that he is not as all-powerful as he still foolishly thinks. (Ray Bradbury: U.S. author and screenwriter who wrote in a variety of genres, 1920-2012)
NATURE : Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. (Hal Borland: U.S. author and journalist, 1900-1978)
NATURE : Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. (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)
NATURE : Nature has inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind, and tide. I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)
NATURE : Nature is not human-hearted. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)
NATURE : Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure. (Patch Adams: U.S. physician, comedian, activist, and author, Born 1945)
NATURE : Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. (Richard Feynman: U.S. theoretical physicist, 1918-1988)
NATURE : Nature's mighty law is change. (Robert Burns: Scottish poet and lyricist who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide, 1759-1796)
NATURE : Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)
NATURE : Nature’s laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. (Luther Burbank: U.S. botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants, 1849-1926)
NATURE : No matter how exalted we think ourselves, how high we have risen, we nevertheless bear the indelible stamp of our lowly origin . . . from so simple a beginning—endless forms, most beautiful, most wonderful, have been or are being evolved. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)
NATURE : Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)
NATURE : Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. (Walt Whitman: U.S. essayist, journalist, and poet, known as the 'Father of Free Verse,' 1819-1992)
NATURE : One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)
NATURE : Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves. But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)
NATURE : Pick a flower on earth and you move the farthest star. (Paul Dirac: English theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics and electrodynamics 1902-1984)
NATURE : Plants know how to make food and medicine from light and water, and then they give it away. (Robin W. Kimmerer: U.S. Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology; Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, Born 1953)
NATURE : The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
NATURE : The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. (Barry Commoner: U.S. cellular biologist, college professor, and politician, 1917-2012)
NATURE : The manuscript of nature is the true scripture. (Unknown Source: )
NATURE : The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
NATURE : The soil, in return for her service, keeps the tree tied to her; the sky asks nothing and leaves it free. (Rabindranath Tagore: a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)
NATURE : The sun is pure communism everywhere except in cities, where it's private property. (Malcolm de Chazal: Mauritian writer and painter, 1902-1981)
NATURE : There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. (J. H. Vincent: U.S. bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1832-1920)
NATURE : To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. (Auguste Rodin: French sculptor, 1840-1917)
NATURE : Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)
NATURE : We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)
NATURE : Western man has no need of more superiority over nature . . . . He must learn that he may not do exactly as he wills. If he does not learn this, his own nature will destroy him. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)
NATURE : When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)
NATURE : Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. (Unknown Source: )
NAYSAYERS : Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)
NEARSIGHTEDNESS : Nearsightedness of the eyes is bad, but not nearly as bad as nearsightedness of the heart. (Unknown Source: )
NEATNESS : Treat your wastebaskets like babies; keep them within reach at all times, feed them frequently, and change them often. (Unknown Source: )
NECESSITY : Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
NECESSITY : Necessity is often the spur to genius. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850)
NECESSITY : Necessity is the mother of invention. (English proverb: )
NECESSITY : Necessity makes even the timid brave. (Unknown Source: )
NECESSITY : Urgent necessity prompts many to do things. (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)
NEED : A friend is never known till a man has need. (Unknown Source: )
NEEDS : Make yourself necessary to somebody. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
NEEDS : The life of the law has not been logic, it has been experience. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.: U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)
NEEDS : Widowers are often looking for "a nurse with a purse." (Unknown Source: )
NEGATIVISM : Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. (George Meredith: English novelist and poet of the Victorian era who was a seven-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1828-1909)
NEGATIVISM : Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence. (Bruce Lee: Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor whose career spanned Hong Kong and the United States, 1940-1973)
NEGATIVISM : Do not let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out. (Annetta Powell: U.S. social media contributor)
NEGATIVISM : Losing money makes us feel worse than gaining money makes us feel better; bad news spreads faster than good news. (Edna O'Brien: Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet, and short-story writer, Born 1930)
NEGATIVISM : Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right. (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)
NEGATIVITY : An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you. (Goi Nasu: Japanese author)
NEGATIVITY : Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. (Shirley MacLaine: U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author, Born 1934)
NEGATIVITY : Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty. (Dorothy Parker: U.S. writer, satirist, social critic, 1893-1967)
NEGATIVITY : The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)
NEGLECT : A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld: French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)
NEGLECT : He who repairs not his gutter repairs his whole house. (John Ruskin: English art critic, as well as art patron, prominent social thinker, and philanthropist. 1819-1900)
NEGLECT : How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
NEGLECT : Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. (Unknown Source: )
NEGOTIATION : A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war. (Henry Van Dyke: U.S. poet, 1852-1933)
NEGOTIATION : Ask much to have a little. (Desiderius Erasmus: Dutch philosopher and scholar, considered to have been one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance. (1466-1536))
NEGOTIATION : Freedom is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way. (David Graeber: U.S.-born British anthropologist and anti-anarchist, Born 1961)
NEGOTIATION : If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. (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)
NEGOTIATION : Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)
NEGOTIATION : Only when all other methods fail is it proper to hold the sword in hand. (Gobind Singh: Indian spiritual master, warrior, poet, philosopher. and leader of the Sikhs, Born 1666)
NEGOTIATION : Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)
NEGOTIATION : Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. It leads us to a wondrous path of being able to negotiate, to engage in dialogue, and to make compromises on a daily basis. (Unknown Source: )
NEGOTIATION : The art of negotiation is better than the strategy of war. (St. Francis of Assisi: Italian Catholic deacon, preacher, and as a saint is one of the most venerated religious figures in history, 1181-1226)
NEGOTIATION : The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. (Maureen Dowd: U.S. columnist and Pultizer Prize recipient, Born 1952)
NEGOTIATION : There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. (E. B. White: U.S. writer and author of the highly acclaimed children's book, "Charlotte'sWeb," 1899-1985)
NEGOTIATION : You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. (James Thurber: U.S. cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, and playwright, 1894-1961)
NEGOTIATIONS : Speak softly and carry a big stick. (Theodore Roosevelt: U.S. statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th U.S. president, 1858-1919)
NEGOTIATIONS : The bargain is ill made where neither party gains. (Unknown Source: )
NEGOTIATIONS : The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations. (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)
NEGROES : The Negro knows nothing of Africa [said to have been expressed with pain and distress] (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)
NEIGHBORS : A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. (Hesiod: Greek poet, along with Homer, whose writings serve as a major source on Greek mythology, ca. 750—650 B.C.E.)
NEIGHBORS : Good fences make good neighbors. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)
NEIGHBORS : Love your neighbor as yourself, but don't take down the fence. (Carl Sandburg: U.S. poet, biographer, journalist, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967)
NEIGHBORS : Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. (George Herbert: English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)
NET NEUTRALITY : Protect net neutrality. I want to see the explosion of innovations happening out there on the Web—so diverse and so exciting—continue unabated. (Tim Berners-Lee: British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the 'World Wide Web' and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Born 1955)
NETWORKING : Networking is just one letter away from ’not working.’ (Kerry Hannon: U.S. finance advisor, columnist, and author, Born 1960)
NETWORKING : We all act as hinges—fortuitous links between other people. (Penelope Lively: British writer and recipient of both the Booker Prize and the Carnegie Medal for British books, Born 1933)
NEUROSES : A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you’re keeping. (Kenneth Tynan: English theater critic and writer, 1927-1980)
NEUROSIS : Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)
NEUTRALITY : A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both, as his honest interest leads him. (William Penn: U.S. writer, Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania, known for his advocacy of democracy and religious freedom, and notable for his good relations with the Lenape Native Americans, 1644-1718)
NEUTRALITY : He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides. (George P. Shultz: U.S. economist, businessman, diplomat, and statesman, 1920-2021)
NEUTRALITY : If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. (Desmond Tutu: South African Anglican Archbishop known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist and the first black African to hold the position, Born 1931)
NEUTRALITY : Neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong. (Theodore Roosevelt: U.S. statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th U.S. president, 1858-1919)
NEUTRALITY : Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. (Elie Wiesel: Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, 1928-2016)
NEUTRALITY : Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. (Lajos Kossuth: Hungarian statesman who served as Governor-President of Hungary during the 1848-49 revolution, 1802-1894)
NEUTRALITY : People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. (Max Eastman: U.S. journalist and poet, 1883-19691)
NEUTRALITY : 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)
NEUTRALITY : The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. (Unknown Source: )
NEVER : I've learned only that you never say never. (Marina von Neumann Whitman: U.S. economist, writer, automobile executive, and a professor of business administration and public policy at the University of Michigan, 1935-2025)
NEW BEGINNINGS : What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it from happening again. (Anne Frank: German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945)
NEWS BROADCASTS : Evening news is where they begin with "Good evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't. (Unknown Source: )
NEWSPAPERS : A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself. (Arthur Miller: U.S. playwright and essayist, 1915-2005)
NEWSPAPERS : I always turn first to the sports page which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but people's failures. (Unknown Source: )
NEWSPAPERS : I always turn to the sports page first which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but people's failures. (Earl Warren: U.S. politician and jurist, who served as the Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States, 1891-1974)
NEWSPAPERS : 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)
NEWSPAPERS : If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today,' we sigh. (Paul Valery: French poet, essayist, and philosopher, 1871-1945)
NEWSPAPERS : If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
NEWSPAPERS : It's my duty to see that they get the truth in newspapers; but that's not enough. I've got to put it before them briefly so that they will read it, clearly so that they will understand it, forcibly so that they will appreciate it, picturesquely so that they will remember it, and, above all, accurately so that they may be wisely guided by its light. (Joseph Pulitzer: Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher, 1847-1911)
NEWSPAPERS : Newspapers are the world's mirrors. (Unknown Source: )
NEWSPAPERS (U.S.A.) : Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. (Gore Vidal: U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)
NEWSPAPERS (U.S.A.) : Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer 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)
NIGHT : Night is the mother of thoughts. (John Florio: British linguist, lexicographer, and a royal language tutor at the Court of James I, 1553-1625)
NIGHT TIME : I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars. (Stephenie Meyer: U.S. novelist and film producer, Born 1973)
NIGHTMARES : Unfortunately, a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. (Peter Ustinov: British actor, writer, filmmaker, columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter, 1921-2004)
NIMBLENESS : Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016)
NIMBLENESS : If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it — then I can achieve it (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016)
NOBILITY : There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. (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)
NOISE : He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. (William D. Howells: U.S. novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed ‘The Dean of American Letters,’ 1837-1920)
NON-AWARENESS : One thing a person cannot do, no matter how rigorous his analysis or heroic his imagination, is to draw up a list of things that would never occur to him. (Thomas Schelling: U.S. economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control, 1921-2016)
Non-conformists : Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. (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)
NON-CONFORMITY : 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)
NON-CONFORMITY : 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)
NON-CONFORMITY : If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. (Juan R. Jimenez: Spanish poet who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1881-1958)
NON-CONFORMITY : My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)
NON-CONFORMITY : The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace, and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human freedom . . . have always been nonconformists. (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)
NON-CONFORMITY : Unity does not mean conformity. (Wes Annac: U.S. writer and editor)
NON-CONFORMITY : What’s madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? (Theodore Roethke: U.S. poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1908-1963)
NON-ESSENTIALS : Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. (Lin Yutang: Chinese writer, translator, linguist, philosopher, and inventor, 1895-1976)
NON-FICTION : The only difference between fiction and non-fiction is that fiction should be completely believable. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
NON-INTENTIONS : Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take. (Angela N. Blount: U.S. author and memoirist, Born 1931)
NON-PARTISANSHIP : He serves his party best who serves the country best. (Rutherford B. Hayes: U.S. politician. abolitionist, and governor of the state of Ohio who later served as the 19th president of the United States, 1822-1893)
NON-PARTISANSHIP : Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? (Lillian Hellman: U.S. dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism, 1905-1984)
NON-PROFITS : Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. (Arthur Miller: U.S. playwright and essayist, 1915-2005)
NON-RISK : In investing, what is comfortable is rarely what is profitable. (Robert Arnott: U.S. entrepreneur, investor, editor, and writer, Born 1954)
NON-VIOLENCE : Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)
NON-VIOLENCE : Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence, but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. (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)
NONVIOLENCE : Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong. (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)
NOSTALGIA : Nostalgia is a seductive liar. (George W. Ball: U.S. diplomat and banker who also served in the management of the U.S. State Department, 1909-1994)
NOTABILITY : The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (Thomas Gray: English poet, 1716-1771)
NOURISHMENT : There are many kinds of food—Music for the hearing, Painting for the seeing, Books for the soul, and Loving other people for the spirit. (Fred Rogers: U.S. television personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, and minister, 1928-1993)
NOVELTY : A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. (H. L. Mencken: U.S. journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, 1880-1956)
NOVELTY : Better to suffer in a novel situation than to be comfortable in the same old rut. (Unknown Source: )
NOVELTY : The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind. (Diane Comtesse: French aristocrat, writer, courtier, and a lady-in-waiting to Princess Élisabeth of France, 1829-1899)
NOW : Forever is composed of nows. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886)
NUDITY : The best contraceptive for old people is nudity. (Phyllis Diller: U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012)
NUMBERS : Numbers constitute the only universal language. (Unknown Source: )
NURSES : Every woman is a nurse. (Florence Nightingale: English social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing, 1820-1910)