quotes of day Saturday, September 26, 2026

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.”

“Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.”

“Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.”

“What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.”

“I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.”

“Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.”

“Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk.”

“The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital from static to more dynamic situations, the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth of the economy.”

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”

“The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.”

“The most eloquent seems to stutter.”