"The highest thinkers of the ages, the..." - Quote by Helen Keller
The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
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“There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.”
“I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.”
“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”
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“A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.”
“Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits and ways of thinking is like writing instructions in the snow during a snowstorm. Every twenty minutes the instructions must be rewritten, unless ownership is given along with instructions.”
“George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon.”