Quotes - 13 July, 2009

• I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
• I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
• To escape criticism—say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
• It takes two to speak the truth—one to speak, and another to hear.
• If suffer we must, let’s suffer on the heights.
• All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
• The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
• A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
• You must render: never report.
• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
• Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
• Ninety percent of inspiration is perspiration.
• We must speak to the eyes, if we wish to affect the mind.
• Language. . . is not outside the mind, but is the outside of the mind.