TABOOS : Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos. (Havelock Ellis: English physician, writer, and progressivesocial reformer who studied human sexuality, 1859-1939)
TACT : Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)
TACT : Tact is the intelligence of the heart. (Unknown Source: )
TACT : Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact. (Ambrose Bierce: U.S. Civil War soldier, wit, writer, and editor, 1842-1914)
TACTICS : There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another. (Emma Goldman: Russian-American writer and lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, 1869-1940)
TALENT : Concealed talent brings no reputation. (Epicurus: Greek philosopher, sage, and prolific writer who founded a highly influential school of philosophy now called 'Epicureanism,' 341—270 B.C.E.)
TALENT : Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. (Henri F. Amiel: Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic, 1821-1881)
TALENT : Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out. (Marguerite Gardiner: Countess of Blessington, Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess, 1789-1849)
TALENT : Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. (Robert Half: U.S. career consultant)
TALENT : Native talent is the most evenly distributed resource in the world. It is a resource that can be tapped wherever it is. (Unknown Source: )
TALENT : Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
TALENT : Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860)
TALENT : Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)
TALENT : Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships (Michael Jordan: U.S. businessman and former professional basketball player, Born 2963)
TALENT : The crowning blessing of life—to be born with a bias to some pursuit (S.C. Tallentyre: )
TALENT : The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. (Hector Berlioz: French Romantic composer and symphony conductor, 1803-1869)
TALENT : There are so many gifts still unopened from the day of your birth. (Khajeh Hafiz: Persian poet and philosopher, c.1320-1389)
TALENT : Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. (Edward de Bono: Maltese physician, psychologist, author, and inventor, Born 1933)
TALENT : 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)
TALENT : Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” (Lou Holtz: former U.S. football player, coach, and analyst, Born 1937)
TALENTS : Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. (Horace: Roman lyric poet, 65 B.C.E.- 8 B.C.E)
TALENTS : I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)
TALKING : Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. (Joseph Joubert: French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)
TALKING : The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet. (Ann Landers: U.S. syndicated advice-columnist whose work was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America and led to her becoming a cultural icon, 1918-2002)
TARGETS : One arrow does not bring down two birds. (Turkish Proverb: )
TASTE : One man's meat is another's poison. (Unknown Source: )
TASTE : Taste cannot be controlled by law. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)
TASTE : Taste is the finer impulse of our nature. (Friedrich Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805)
TASTE : What is food to one is to others bitter poison. (Lucretius: Roman poet and philosopher, 99-55 B.C.E.)
TASTE : What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. (English proverb: )
TASTE : Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. (Unknown Source: )
TAXATION : Death and taxes are inevitable. (Thomas C. Haliburton: Nova Scotian politician, member of the British Parliament, judge, author, and the first international best-selling author of fiction from what is now Canada, 1796-1865)
TAXATION : Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. (Bernard Berenson: U.S. art historian, known for his drawings of the Florentine painters, 1865-1959)
TAXATION : 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.)
TAXATION : Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. (F. J. Raymond: U.S. author of puns and quotes, newspaper columnist, and editorial cartoonist, 1929-2011)
TAXATION : Taxation is how the sheep are shorn. (Edward Abbey: U.S. naturalist, author, and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, 1927-1989)
TAXATION : Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society. (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)
TAXATION : The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. (John S. Coleman: U.S. television weatherman who founded the 'Weather Channel,' 1934-2018)
TAXATION : The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. (MacKenzie King: Canadian political leader who served as the tenth prime minister of Canada, the longest-serving prime minister in Canadian history, 1874-1960)
TAXATION : The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on earth. (Wilfred Grenfell: British medical missionary to Newfoundland, 1865-1940)
TAXATION : The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. (Charles D. Warner: U.S. essayist and novelist, 1820-1900)
TAXATION : Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. (Charles F. Kettering: U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, the holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering Foundation for research, 1876-1958)
TAXATION (U.S.A.) : The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. (Will Rogers: U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)
Taxes : I just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream. (Conan O'Brien: U.S. television host, comedian, writer, podcaster, and producer, Born 1963)
TEACHERS : A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (Henry B. Adams: U.S. historian and descendant of two U.S. presidents, 1838-1918)
TEACHERS : Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. (Unknown Source: )
TEACHERS : By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away. (Wayne W. Dyer: U.S. author and motivational speaker, 1940-2015)
TEACHERS : If some of us have seen stars, it is often because a teacher tilted our heads toward the heavens. (Unknown Source: )
TEACHERS : If we don’t feed the teachers, they’ll eat the children. (Lisa Delpit: U.S. educator, award- winning author, and professor)
TEACHERS : Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of. (John Wolfenden: British educationalist who supported the decriminalization of homosexuality, 1906-1985)
TEACHERS : Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best (Bob Talbert: U.S. sportswriter, editor, and columnist, 1936-1999)
TEACHERS : The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. (William A. Ward: U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)
TEACHERS : The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself. (Giovanni Ruffini: Italian poet, 1807-1881)
TEACHERS : The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)
TEACHERS : True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own. (Nikos Kazantzakis: Greek writer and nine-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1883-1957)
TEACHERS : We are the best teachers when we are active learners. (Unknown Source: )
TEACHING : A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859)
TEACHING : Better untaught than ill taught. (English proverb: )
TEACHING : By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. (Latin Proverb: )
TEACHING : Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. (Anton Chekhov: Russian short-story writer and dramatist, 1860-1904)
TEACHING : Every student needs someone who says, simply, 'You mean something, You count.' (Tony Kushner: U.S. playwright, screenwriter, and recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Born 1956)
TEACHING : Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. (Unknown Source: )
TEACHING : Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. (Gail Godwin: U.S. author whose novels have included five best-sellers, 1937)
TEACHING : I am not a teacher but an awakener. (Unknown Source: )
TEACHING : I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. (Unknown Source: )
TEACHING : I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. (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)
TEACHING : If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure. (Lisa Delpit: U.S. educator, award- winning author, and professor)
TEACHING : If you are okay with having Muslim, Jewish, and Hindu students sit through Christian prayer in public school, and not okay with having Christian students sit through a Muslim, Jewish, or Hindu prayer, then it’s NOT religious freedom — it’s religious oppression. (Nicholas Ferroni: U.S. award-winning, nationally recognized educator and activist)
TEACHING : If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. (Margaret Fuller: U.S. author, critic, and women's rights advocate, 1810-1850)
TEACHING : Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. (Unknown Source: )
TEACHING : Men learn while they teach. (Unknown Source: )
TEACHING : Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. (John W. Gardner: U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1912-2002)
TEACHING : Nature fits all her children with something to do. He who would write and can't write, can surely review. (James R. Lowell: U.S,. poet, critic, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)
TEACHING : Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. (Maria Montessori: Italian physician and educator, 1870-1952)
TEACHING : One of the best ways to learn something is to teach it to someone else. (Unknown Source: )
TEACHING : Sometimes I think war is God’s way of teaching us geography. (Unknown Source: )
TEACHING : Students tend not to care about how much a professor knows until they know how much he/she cares. (David Sanfilippo: U.S. college administrator)
TEACHING : Teachers make all other professions possible. (Unknown Source: )
TEACHING : Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. (Jacques Barzun: French-American historian whose work influenced the training of schoolteachers in the United States, 1907-2012)
TEACHING : Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. (Unknown Source: )
TEACHING : Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
TEACHING : Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand. (Native American Proverb: )
TEACHING : The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." (Maria Montessori: Italian physician and educator, 1870-1952)
TEACHING : The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly. (David Ausubel: U.S. pioneer of cognitive psychology, 1918-2008)
TEACHING : The rifle fires the bullet, but the wind carries it. (Russian Proverb: )
TEACHING : There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. (Edith Wharton: Novelist, short story writer, and designer, whose work portrayed the lives and morals of the Gilded Age, 1862-1937)
TEACHING : To teach is to learn twice. (Joseph Joubert: French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)
TEACHING : Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. (Diogenes Laertius: c.180-240 A..D.)
TEACHING : What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. (Karl A. Menninger: U.S. psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation, 1893-1990)
TEACHING : You cannot teach a man anything: you can only help him find it within himself. (GALILEI GALILEO: Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer who has been called the ‘father of observational astronomy,’ and the ‘father of modern physics,’ 1564-1642)
TEAMWORK : A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing his/her own way. (Swahili Proverb: )
TEAMWORK : A single leaf working alone provides no shade.” (Unknown Source: )
TEAMWORK : Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. (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)
TEAMWORK : If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. (African Proverb: )
TEAMWORK : Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. (Ryunosuke Satoro: Japanese writer who is regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story", 1892-1927)
TEAMWORK : Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships (Michael Jordan: U.S. businessman and former professional basketball player, Born 2963)
TEAMWORK : United we stand, divided we fall. (Aesop Fable: )
TEARS : Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)
TEARS : Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of water. (Antoine de Rivarol: Royalist French writer and translator, 1753-1801)
TEARS : I do believe there is many a tear in the heart that never reaches the eyes. (Norman MacEwan: U.S. writer, Born 1943)
TEARS : If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. (Rabindranath Tagore: a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)
TEARS : It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears. (Ovid: Roman poet and a contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature, 43 B.C.E.—17 A.D.)
TEARS : Tears are the silent language of grief. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)
TEARS : There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
TEARS : There’s a sacredness in tears. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
TEARS : What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. (Unknown Source: )
TECHNIQUES : The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. (Pablo Casals: Spanish cellist, conductor, and composer, 1876-1973)
TECHNOLOGY : Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Arthur C. Clarke: U.S. science fiction writer and undersea explorer, 1917-2008)
TECHNOLOGY : Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. (Edsger Dijkstra: Dutch computer scientist, 1930-2002)
TECHNOLOGY : Ethics in technology is essential in the decades to come. (Kumail Nanjiani: Pakistani-American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and podcast host., Born 1978)
TECHNOLOGY : Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism. (Susan Sontag: U.S. writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist, 1933-2004)
TECHNOLOGY : It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. (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)
TECHNOLOGY : Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road. (Stewart Brand: U.S. project developer and writer, best known as the co-founder and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, Born 1938)
TECHNOLOGY : Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)
TECHNOLOGY : Technology . . . the knack of so arranging the world so that we don’t have to experience it. (Max Frisch: Swiss architect, playwright, and novelist, 1911-1991)
TECHNOLOGY : Technology is literally an extension of man, as the ax is an extension of the hand, the wheel as an extension of the foot. Communications technology, on the other hand, is an extension of thought, of consciousness, of man's unique perceptual capacities. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)
TECHNOLOGY : We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)
TECHNOLOGY : Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. (Unknown Source: )
TECHNOLOGY : Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view? (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)
TECHNOLOGY : 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)
TECHNOLOGY : You can use books to install new software into your brain. (Unknown Source: )
TELEGRAPHY : 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)
TELEGRAPHY : What hath God wrought? (TELEGRAPHY: The official first Morse code message transmitted in the U.S., May 24, 1844)
TELEVISION : 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)
TELEVISION : Television is chewing gum for the eyes. (Frank L. Wright: U.S. architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, 1867-1959)
TELEVISION : Television is the first truly democratic culture—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. (Clive Barnes: English writer, and dance and theater critic for 'The New York Times,' 1927-2008)
TEMPERAMENT : It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy. (Unknown Source: )
TEMPERANCE : Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow. (John Neale: Former British professional footballer who also played for the Republic of Ireland where he finished top scorer, Born 1966)
TEMPTATION : 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)
TEMPTATION : I can resist everything except temptation. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
TEMPTATION : Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. (Rita M. Brown: U.S. writer and feminist, Born 1944)
TEMPTATION : Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. (W. M. Taylor: )
TEMPTATION : The biggest temptation is to settle for too little. (Thomas Merton: U.S. theologian, social activist, and student of comparative religion, 1915-1968)
TEMPTATION : There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
TEMPTATION : Things forbidden have a secret charm. (Tacitus: Roman senator and historian, known for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics, 56—117 A.D.)
TENACITY : If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. (William E. Hickson: British educational writer, 1803-1870)
TENACITY : Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. (Louis Pasteur: French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, 1822-1895)
TENACITY : The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. (Amelia Earhart: U.S. aviation pioneer [the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean] and author, 1897-1937)
TENDERNESS : Sometimes you find people who have sun inside them. They have an internal being that shines so bright it feels like sun warming your soul. (Unknown Source: )
TERMINOLOGY : Knowledge of terminology often passes for knowledge of the subject. (Henry Rhodes: U. S. scientific glass-blower for the U.S. govt.’s Manhattan Atomic Bomb project, 1919-2005)
TERRORISM : No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. Edward R. Murrow, journalist (Edward R. Murrow: U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965)
TERRORISM : War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times. (Howard Zinn: U.S. political science professor, author, and social activist, 1922-2010)
TERRORISTS : The conventional army loses if it does not win. The terrorist wins if he does not lose. (Henry Kissinger: politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, Born 1923)
THE ARTS : The arts speak to what we share, what we hold in common, rather than what pries us apart. (David L. Ulin: U.S. author and Guggenheim Fellow, Born 1961)
THEATER : We do not go to the theatre . . . to escape the pressures of reality so much as to confirm our experience of it. (Charles Lamb: English poet and essayist, 1775-1834)
THEORIES : A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. (Edgar W. Howe: U.S. novelist and newspaper and magazine editor 1853-1937)
THEORIES : It is a capital mistake to . . . twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. (Unknown Source: )
THEORIES : Stories unite people: theories divide them. (Unknown Source: )
THEORY : Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve. (Tehyl Hsieh: Chinese patriot, lecturer, and writer, 1884-1972)
THEORY : An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. (Friedrich Engels: German philosopher, political theorist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist who was Karl Marx’s closest friend and collaborator, 1820-1895))
THEORY : 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)
THIEVERY : He who steals an egg would steal a cow. (French Proverb: )
THIEVERY : Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. (Pablo Casals: Spanish cellist, conductor, and composer, 1876-1973)
THIEVERY : Set a thief to catch a thief. (Unknown Source: )
THIEVERY : Steal the hog, and give the feet for alms. (George Herbert: English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)
THINKERS : The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion—these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. (Jerome Bruner: U.S. psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory, 1915-2016)
THINKING : All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you brings up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)
THINKING : Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)
THINKING : Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. (Thomas Szasz: Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, 1920-2012)
THINKING : Every thought we think is creating our future. (Louise L. Hay: U,S. motivational speaker and author of self-help books, 1926-2017)
THINKING : Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias—the ability to use them in men's heads. (Fogg Brackell: )
THINKING : The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it. (Stanley Kubrick: U.S. film director, screenwriter, and producer, 1928-1999)
THINKING : Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. (Charles F. Kettering: U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, the holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering Foundation for research, 1876-1958)
THINKING : We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think. (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.)
THORNS : The prickly thorn often bears soft roses. (Ovid: Roman poet and a contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature, 43 B.C.E.—17 A.D.)
Thoroughness : Errors like straws upon the surface flow / Who would search for pearls must dive below. (John Dryden: English poet, literary critic, translator, playwright, and England's first Poet Laureate, 1631-1700)
THOUGHT : My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)
THOUGHT : 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)
THOUGHT : Style is the dress of thoughts. (Lord Stanhope: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)
THOUGHT : The power of Thought—the magic of the Mind! (Lord Byron: English poet and politician who has been recognized as one of the greatest English poets whose work remains widely read and influential, 1788-1824)
THOUGHT : The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. (John Locke: English philosopher, 1632-1704)
THOUGHT : Thought flies and words go on foot. (Julien Green: French-American writer of somber psychological novels and an elected member of the Académie Française, 1900-1998)
THOUGHTFULNESS : The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. (William Wordsworth: English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature, 1770-1850)
THOUGHTS : Night is the mother of thoughts. (John Florio: British linguist, lexicographer, and a royal language tutor at the Court of James I, 1553-1625)
THOUGHTS : The heaviest burden that we carry are the thoughts in our head. (Tamara Kulish: )
THREAT : If you cannot bite, never show your teeth. (Danish Proverb: )
THREATS : 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)
THRIFT : He who will not economize will have to agonize. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)
TIME : 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)
TIME : Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved. (Brian Dyson: U.S. businessman and CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises, Born 1935)
TIME : 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)
TIME : How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. (Theodore Seuss: U.S. political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books [with pen name of Dr. Seuss], 1904-1991)
TIME : It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. (Douglas Hofstadter: U.S. scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature, Born 1945)
TIME : It takes time to save time. (Unknown Source: )
TIME : Lord, how the day passes! It’s like a life—so quickly when we don’t watch it and so slowly if we do. (John Steinbeck: U.S. author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1968)
TIME : Lost time is never found again. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
TIME : Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)
TIME : Most butterflies live only 8–10 days but they count not months but moments, And have time enough. (Rabindranath Tagore: a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)
TIME : My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. (Steve Jobs: U.S. business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor, 1955-2011)
TIME : Never a tear bedims the eye / That time and patience will not dry. (Bret Harte: U.S. short-story writer and poet, best known for his short fiction featuring miners and gamblers of the California Gold Rush, 1836-1902)
TIME : Never let yesterday use up too much of today. (Will Rogers: U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)
TIME : Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense. (George Ade: U.S. writer, 1866-1944)
TIME : Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)
TIME : Procrastination is the thief of time. (Edward Young: English poet, critic, and theologian, 1683-1765)
TIME : Sadness flies away on the wings of time. (Jean de la Fontaine: French fable writer and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, 1621-1695)
TIME : That was then, this is now. (Chinese Proverb: )
TIME : The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. (Michael Altschuler: U.S. business man and motivational speaker)
TIME : The strongest of all warriors are these two—Time and Patience. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)
TIME : The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)
TIME : This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past. (Agathon: Greek tragic poet, 448—400 B.C.E.)
TIME : Time changes all things: there is no reason why language should escape this universal law. (Ferdinand de Saussure: Swiss linguist and semiotician, 1857-1913)
TIME : Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. (Thomas Mann: German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1875-1955)
TIME : Time gives good advice. (Unknown Source: )
TIME : Time goes by like the current of a river, never to come back. (Bengali Proverb: )
TIME : Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go. (Henry Dobson: English poet and essayist, 1840-1921)
TIME : Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. (Richard B. Sapir: U.S. novelist, 1936-1987)
TIME : Time is money. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton: English writer and politician who coined the phrases 'the great unwashed,' 'the pursuit of the almighty dollar,' and 'the pen is mightier than the sword,' 1803-1873)
TIME : Time is the coin of your life. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. (Carl Sandburg: U.S. poet, biographer, journalist, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967)
TIME : Time is the fairest and toughest judge. (Edgar Quinet: French historian and intellectual, 1803-1875)
TIME : Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. (Theophrastus: Greek philosopher and student of Aristotle who credited Theophrastus for his ‘divine style of expression,’ Died 278 B.C.E.)
TIME : Time trieth truth. (Unknown Source: )
TIME : Time, the devourer of all things. (Ovid: Roman poet and a contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature, 43 B.C.E.—17 A.D.)
TIME : Tomorrow life is too late: live today. (Unknown Source: )
TIME : Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time. (Pericles: Greek statesman and general of Athens during its golden age, c.495—c.406 B.C.E.)
TIME : We wanderers begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)
TIME : Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery and . . . Today is a gift: that's why we call it The Present. (Brian Dyson: U.S. businessman and CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises, Born 1935)
TIME : You will never find time for anything. You must make it. (Charles Buxton: English brewer, philanthropist, and member of Parliament, 1823-1871)
TIMELESSNESS : If eternity is understood not as endless duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. (Ludwig Wittgenstein: Austrian-British philosopher, 1889-1951)
TIMIDITY : A timid question will always receive a confident answer. (Charles J. Darling: English lawyer, judge, and politician, 1849-1936)
TIMIDITY : As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery. (Norman Mailer: U.S. novelist, journalist, and liberal political activist, 1923-2007)
TIMING : Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time. (Brendan Francis: Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964)
TIMING : Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse in when he is leaping. (Augustus W. Hare: British writer who authored a history of Germany, 1792-1834)
TIMING : No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)
TIMING : Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season. (Bette B. Lord: Chinese-born American writer and civic activist for human rights, Born 1938)
TIMING : The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. (Chinese Proverb: )
TIMING : The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. (Unknown Source: )
TIMING : The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)
TITLES : 'Vice-President' is the title given to a corporate manager instead of a raise. (James Humes: U.S. author and former presidential speechwriter, known for his extensive knowledge of the political landscape, Born 1934)
TOBACCO : For thy sake, tobacco, I Would do anything but die. (Charles Lamb: English poet and essayist, 1775-1834)
TODAY : Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
TODAY : There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935)
TODAY : Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. (Bill Keane: U.S. cartoonist best known for the newspaper comic strip 'The Family Circus', 1922-2011)
TOGETHERNESS : Constant togetherness is fine—but only for Siamese twins. (Victoria Billings: U.S. journalist, Born 1945))
TOGETHERNESS : Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. (Simone Signoret: French cinema actress who won a U.S. Academy Award, 1921-1985)
TOGETHERNESS : The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. (Maria L. Rame: English author who wrote more than 40 novels, as well as short stories [pen name of Ouida], 1828-1909)
TOGETHERNESS : There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other. (Ivy Compton-Burnett: English novelist, 1884-1969)
TOLERANCE : Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace. (Benito Juarez: Mexican politician, military commander, and lawyer who served as the 26th president of Mexico from 1858 until his death in office in 1872, 1806-18872)
TOLERANCE : Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance. (Bill Maher: U,S. comedian, political commentator, and television host, Born 1956)
TOLERANCE : I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them. (Charles De Gaulle: French military general and statesman who founded France's Fifth Republic and was elected as the President of France, 1890-1970)
TOLERANCE : In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. (: )
TOLERANCE : Live and let live. (Unknown Source: )
TOLERANCE : Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant. (H. L. Mencken: U.S. journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, 1880-1956)
TOLERANCE : The highest result of education is tolerance. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)
TOLERANCE : The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit 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)
TOLERANCE : Tolerance is a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. (James Goldsmith: Anglo-French financier and politician, 1933-1997)
TOLERANCE : Tolerance is the only real test of civilization. (Arthur Helps: English writer, 1813-1875)
TOLERANCE : 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)
TOLERATION : 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)
TOLERATION : The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895)
TOLERATION : Tolerance is a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. (James Goldsmith: Anglo-French financier and politician, 1933-1997)
TOLERATION : Toleration is the best religion. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)
TOMBSTONE : You only live once. You don’t want your tombstone to read: 'Played it safe.' (Rosario Dawson: U.S. actress, producer, voice actress, and activist, Born 1979)
TOMORROW : Life gives everyone a second chance; it's called tomorrow. (Unknown Source: )
TOMORROW : Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
TOMORROW : There are two days about which nobody should ever worry, and these are ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow.’ (Robert J. Burdette: U.S. humorist and clergyman, 1844-1914)
TOMORROW : Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year. (Spanish Proverb: )
TOOLS : A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. (Joyce Meyer: U.S. Christian author, speaker, and president of Joyce Meyer Ministries, Born 1943)
TOOLS : We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)
TORTURE : The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)
TOTALITARIANISM : The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction . . . no longer exist(s). (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)
TOUCHING : Skin is the largest organ of the human body. (Sally Warwick: U.S. physical therapist, Born 1938)
TRACKING : Follow the money. (Jeppe G. Gram: Danish screenwriter and co-creator of a Danish television financial crime thriller , Born 1976)
TRADE : Money and trade are as much contraband of war as powder. (William T. Sherman: U.S. Civil War general and a major architect of modern warfare, 1820-1891)
TRADITION : Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. (Somerset W. Maugham: English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer who was among the most popular writers of his era, 1874-1965)
TRADITION : We don’t inherit the earth, we borrow it from our children. (Chief Seattle: Suquamish and Duwamish Indian chief who was a leading figure among his people who pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers, for which the city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington, was named, Died 1866)
TRAGEDY : A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. (Joseph Stalin: Georgian revolutionary and political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death, 1878-1953)
TRAGEDY : Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696)
TRAGEDY : The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)
TRAINING : Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. (Anna Freud: Austrian-British psychoanalyst, 1895-1982)
TRAINING : I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016)
TRAINING : If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
TRAITOR : 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)
TRAITS : The apple never falls far from the tree. (English proverb: )
TRANSCENDENCE : Be melting snow / Wash yourself of yourself. (Rumi: 13th-century Persian 13th century poet, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic, 1207-1273)
TRANSFORMATIONS : We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)
TRANSFORMATIONS : What the Caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly (Richard Bach: U.S. author who has written numerous works of fiction and also non-fiction flight-related titles, Born 1936)
TRANSITIONS : Ends and beginnings — there are no such things. There are only middles. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)
TRANSLATION : Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization. (Alexander Pushkin: Russian poet, playwright, and novelist who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, 1799-1837)
TRANSPARENCY : It’s difficult to really fix what you aren’t being transparent about. (Barbara Whyte: U.S. Intelligence Committee's chief diversity and inclusion officer)
TRANSPLANTATION : Trees often transplanted seldom prosper. (Flemish Proverb: )
TRANSPORTATION : A railroad is a big iron needle stitching the country together. (Jessamyn West: U.S. author of short stories and novels, who was of Quaker background and a Founder of the Palmer Society, 1902-1984)
TRANSPORTATION : Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. (H. G. Wells: )
TRANSPORTATION : Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic, and more time to drive to the office. (Unknown Source: )
TRAUMA : A wounded deer leaps the highest. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886)
TRAVEL : A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)
TRAVEL : 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)
TRAVEL : 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)
TRAVEL : Barr The great difference between voyages rests not in ships but in the people you meet on them.- (Amelia Barr: British teacher and novelist who wrote about the capacity of women to be successful, 1831-1919)
TRAVEL : Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled. (Muhammad (Prophet): )
TRAVEL : He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. (Carlo Goldoni: Italian playwright and librettist whose works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays, 1707-1793)
TRAVEL : I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. (Mary A. Radmacher: U.S. author, artist, and professional speaker.)
TRAVEL : I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)
TRAVEL : It is through travel that we catch a glimpse of the unity, the continuous and the discrete, the forest and the trees—the pieces of the mosaic that give us the sum of life. (Richard Bangs: U.S. travel writer, Born 1950)
TRAVEL : It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples . . . and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous. (Rene Descartes: French philosopher and mathematician, 1596-1650)
TRAVEL : It’s the not the destination, It's the journey. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
TRAVEL : One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. (G. K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, literary and art critic, known as the 'Prince of Paradox,' 1874-1936)
TRAVEL : One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. (Henry Miller: U.S. novelist, 1891-1980)
TRAVEL : Own what you can always carry with you; know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your bag. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and who was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, 1918-2008)
TRAVEL : Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)
TRAVEL : Roads were made for journeys not destinations. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)
TRAVEL : Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the grade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
TRAVEL : The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences. (Unknown Source: )
TRAVEL : The more I travel, the more I realize that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. (Shirley MacLaine: U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author, Born 1934)
TRAVEL : The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one’s self to be acquainted with it. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)
TRAVEL : The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page. (St. Augustine: Roman African, early Christian theologian and whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy, 354-430 A.D.)
TRAVEL : The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place. (Chinua Achebe: Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic, 1930-2013)
TRAVEL : 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)
TRAVEL : There are two classes of travel—first class, and with children. (Robert Benchley: U.S. humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor, 1889-1945)
TRAVEL : There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
TRAVEL : Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. (Louis L'Amour: U.S. author of novels and short stories, many of which were made into films, 1908-1988)
TRAVEL : Travel is always both a window and a mirror. Partly what you do is discover another place, and part of what you do is view yourself and your own country differently. (Andrew Solomon: U.S. writer on politics, culture, and psychology, Born 1963)
TRAVEL : Travel is an education rather than an event. (Pallavi Aiyar: Indian journalist and award-winning foreign correspondent)
TRAVEL : Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one corner of the earth all one's lifetime. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
TRAVEL : We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)
TRAVEL : We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us. (Unknown Source: )
TRAVEL : When languages, cultures, and peoples collide, the categories that label and classify us into separateness begin to soften. (Pallavi Aiyar: Indian journalist and award-winning foreign correspondent)
TRAVEL : When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia. (Jiddu Krishnamurti: Indian spiritual writer and speaker, 1895-1986)
TRAVEL : When the familiar has become somewhat strange to you, it’s never quite the same again. (Unknown Source: )
TRAVEL : When traveling, you learn who you are, and are not, when you're splashed up against a foreign environment. (Shirley MacLaine: U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author, Born 1934)
TRAVEL : When you're traveling . . . people don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. (William L. Heat-Moon: U.S. travel writer and historian of English, Irish, and Osage [native American] ancestry, Born 1939)
TRAVEL : While living in a different culture, you may not always have ready access to a mirror, but it’s likely to be one of the most reflective times of your life. (Unknown Source: )
TRAVEL : With travel, we discover inner passageways that remain opaque to us at home. (Pallavi Aiyar: Indian journalist and award-winning foreign correspondent)
TRAVEL MATES : There is no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
TREACHERY : Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. (Titus Livy: Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, 59 B.C.E.—17 A.D.)
TREASON : We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit. (Carl Schurz: German revolutionary who became a U.S. statesman, reformer, and served as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1829-1906)
TREES : Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. (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)
TREES : Be kind to trees, they’re busy saving the world. (Unknown Source: )
TREES : 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)
TREES : Storms make trees take deeper roots. (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)
TREES : The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. (Unknown Source: )
TREES : 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)
TREES : Trees often transplanted seldom prosper. (Flemish Proverb: )
TREES : We can learn a lot from trees: they’re always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward. (Everett Mamor: U.S. author)
TRIALS : To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. (Gail Sheehy: U.S. author, journalist, and lecturer, Born 1937)
TRIANGLES : If triangles had a God, he would have three sides. (Charles de Montesquieu: French judge, historian, and political philosopher who promoted the theory of separation of state, 1689-1755)
TRIBALISM : Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God. (Benjamin Spock: U.S. pediatrician and author, 1903-1998)
TRIBULATION : Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)
TRICKERY : Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)
TRIVIA : A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. (Clifton Fadiman: U.S. editor, critic, radio and television personality, 1904-1999)
TRIVIA : In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become loyal to performing daily trivia until we become enslaved by it. (Robert A. Heinlein: U.S. science-Fiction writer, often called the 'dean of science-fiction writers,' 1907-1988)
TRIVIA : Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. (Richard B. Sapir: U.S. novelist, 1936-1987)
TROUBLEMAKERS : As any farmer knows, it’s usually the brightest goat in the herd that stirs up the most trouble. (Juval Harari: )
TROUBLES : A trouble shared is halved. (Dorothy Sayers: English crime writer and poet, 1893-1957)
TROUBLES : Friends show their love - in times of trouble, not in happiness. (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.)
TROUBLES : In the rubble of your trouble lies the seed of what you need. (Ida O. Donohue: U.S. poet, born 1928)
TROUBLES : Nothing is permanent in this wicked world—not even our troubles. (Charles Chaplin: English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era of silent film, 1889-1977)
TROUBLES : Nothing lasts forever—not even your troubles. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)
TROUBLES : The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. (Bernard Baruch: U.S. financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant, 1870-1965)
TROUBLES : Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. (Soren, Kierkegaard: Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher, 1813-1855)
TROUBLES : Trouble will rain on those who are already wet. (Unknown Source: )
TRUST : A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
TRUST : A promise made is a debt unpaid. (Robert W. Service: British-Canadian poet and writer, often called 'the Bard of the Yukon,' 1874-1958)
TRUST : Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. (George Washington: U.S. politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1732-1799)
TRUST : It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help (Epicurus: Greek philosopher, sage, and prolific writer who founded a highly influential school of philosophy now called 'Epicureanism,' 341—270 B.C.E.)
TRUST : It’s easy to make things hard, but hard to make things easy. (Jos D. BLOK: Dutch founder and CEO of Buurtzorg, a home-based health care community organization, Born 1960)
TRUST : The most expensive thing in the world is trust, which takes years to earn and only a matter of seconds to lose. (Unknown Source: )
TRUST : To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. (George MacDonald: Scottish author, poet , church minister, and a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature, 1824-1905)
TRUST : To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)
TRUST : Trust comes from risk; trust follows having survived a risk . . . successfully (Unknown Source: )
TRUST : Trust is the first step to love. (Munshi Premchand: Indian novelist and poet who was famous for his modern Hindustani literature, 1880-1936)
TRUSTWORTHINESS : He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. (Charles Peguy: French poet, essayist, and editor, 1873-1914)
TRUTH : A lie travels around the world while truth is putting on her boots. (Charles H. Spurgeon: English Particular Baptist preacher who opposed the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day, 1834-1892)
TRUTH : A truth that's told with bad intent . . . beats all the lies you can invent. (William Blake: English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827)
TRUTH : All great truths began as blasphemies. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
TRUTH : As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)
TRUTH : Beauty is truth, truth beauty. (John Keats: English Romantic poet, 1795-1821)
TRUTH : Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)
TRUTH : Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. (Edward Abbey: U.S. naturalist, author, and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, 1927-1989)
TRUTH : Do not veil the truth with falsehood, nor conceal the truth knowingly. (Koran: )
TRUTH : Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions. (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.)
TRUTH : Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and who was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, 1918-2008)
TRUTH : I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as "twas said to me." (Walter Scott: Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian, 1771-1832)
TRUTH : I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell. (Harry S. Truman: U.S. politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States, 1884-1972)
TRUTH : 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)
TRUTH : I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth -- and truth rewarded me. (Simone d. Beauvoir: French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist,1908-1986)
TRUTH : If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859)
TRUTH : 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)
TRUTH : If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. (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)
TRUTH : If you bury the truth, a thousand lies will sprout from the soil. (Unknown Source: )
TRUTH : If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
TRUTH : If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. (Rene Descartes: French philosopher and mathematician, 1596-1650)
TRUTH : In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. (George Orwell: English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, known for his outspoken support of democratic socialism, 1903-1950)
TRUTH : In quarreling, the truth is always lost. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)
TRUTH : It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place, or in the second place. (John Morley: British Liberal statesman, writer, and newspaper editor, 1838-1923)
TRUTH : Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, sometimes it hurts. (Unknown Source: )
TRUTH : Love truth, but pardon error. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)
TRUTH : No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean. (Henry B. Adams: U.S. historian and descendant of two U.S. presidents, 1838-1918)
TRUTH : Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)
TRUTH : On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
TRUTH : One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. (George C. Lichtenberg: German experimental physicist, satirist, and Anglophile, 1742-1799,)
TRUTH : Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. (Meister Eckhart: German theologian, philosopher, and mystic, 1260-1327)
TRUTH : Post-truth is pre-Fascism. (Timothy Snyder: U.S. professor of history at Yale University, Born 1969)
TRUTH : Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. (Unknown Source: )
TRUTH : Seek and keep the company of those who are looking for the truth, and run away from those who have found it. (Vaclav Havel: Czech writer, political dissident, and politician who first served as the last president of Czechoslovakia and then as the first president of the Czech Republic after the Czech-Slovak split, 1936-2011)
TRUTH : Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. (Martin Luther: German professor of theology, composer, priest, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, 1483-1546)
TRUTH : Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries. (Henry Wotton: English author, diplomat, and politician, 1568-1639)
TRUTH : The attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. (Alan Watts: British philosopher who interpreted and popularized Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. 1915-1973)
TRUTH : The first casualty when war comes is truth. (Hiram Johnson: U.S. governor and senator 1866-1945)
TRUTH : The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction . . . no longer exist(s). (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)
TRUTH : The man who speaks the truth is always at ease. (Unknown Source: )
TRUTH : The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. (Niels Bohr: Danish physicist and leader in understanding atomic structure and quantum theory for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1885-1962)
TRUTH : The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. (Niels Bohr: Danish physicist and leader in understanding atomic structure and quantum theory for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1885-1962)
TRUTH : The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. (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)
TRUTH : The reason facts don’t change most people’s opinions is because most people don’t use facts to form their opinion. They use their opinions to form their ‘facts’. (Neil Strauss: U.S. author, journalist, and ghost writer, Born 1969)
TRUTH : The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
TRUTH : The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. (Nadine Gordimer: South African writer, political activist, and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1923-2014)
TRUTH : The truth that makes men free is, for the most part, the truth which people prefer not to hear. (Herbert Agar: U.S. journalist and historian, 1897-1980)
TRUTH : The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)
TRUTH : The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it. (Agatha Christie: English author known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections, 1890-1976)
TRUTH : The well of true wit is truth itself. (George Meredith: English novelist and poet of the Victorian era who was a seven-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1828-1909)
TRUTH : There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
TRUTH : There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)
TRUTH : Time trieth truth. (Unknown Source: )
TRUTH : 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)
TRUTH : Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)
TRUTH : Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech. (Amelia Barr: British teacher and novelist who wrote about the capacity of women to be successful, 1831-1919)
TRUTH : Truth cannot emerge unless it is subjected to the utmost scrutiny; will you not agree that a society which has lost sight of that, cannot survive? (Learned Hand: U.S. jurist, lawyer, and judicial philosopher, 1872-1961)
TRUTH : Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)
TRUTH : Truth ever lovely—since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man. (Thomas Campbell: Scottish poet, co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, and an initiator of what became the University College London, 1777-1844)
TRUTH : Truth exists; only lies are invented. (George Braque: French painter, collagist, draughtsman, sculptor, printmaker, and a key figure in the development of Cubism, along with his colleague, Picasso, 1882-1963)
TRUTH : Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments. (Unknown Source: )
TRUTH : Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. (Henri F. Amiel: Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic, 1821-1881)
TRUTH : Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else. (Unknown Source: )
TRUTH : Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. (Unknown Source: )
TRUTH : Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history. (John Dalberg-Acton: English Catholic historian, politician, and writer, 1834-1902)
TRUTH : Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)
TRUTH : We can sing the truth and name the liars.... We must work to overturn the false narrative of tyrants. (Salman Rushdie: British Indian novelist and essayist, Born 1947)
TRUTH : Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. (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)
TRUTH : 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)
TRUTHS : A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
TRUTHS : Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. (Edward R. Murrow: U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965)
TRUTHS : There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie. (Cornel West: U.S. philosopher, political activist, social critic, and author, Born 1953)
TURBULENCE : Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change. (Ramsey Clark: U.S. lawyer, activist, and federal government official, 1927-2021)
TYRANNY : Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. (Aeschylus: Ancient Greek tragedian who is often described as the ‘Father of Tragedy,' 525—456 B.C.E.)
TYRANNY : Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. (Blaise Pascal: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)
TYRANNY : The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. (Wole Soyinka: Nigerian playwright, poet, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature — the first sub-Saharan to be honored in that category, Born 1934)
TYRANNY : The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. (Bertrand Barere: French politician, freemason, journalist, and one of the most prominent leaders of the French Revolution, 1755-1841)
TYRANNY : Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. (Walter Colton: U.S. naval chaplain, author, and co-publisher of California's first newspaper, 1797-1851)
TYRANNY : Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. (William Pitt Sr.: British statesman of the Whig group who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1708-1788)
TYRANNY : Where law ends, there tyranny begins. (William Pitt Sr.: British statesman of the Whig group who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1708-1788)