"We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge."

-- Abdullah ibn Mubarak

#Character Quotes #People Quotes #Needs Quotes

“The sixth commandment - 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' - fascinated me . . . I always knew that some day I should defy it.”
“Science brings men nearer to God.”
“Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.”
“From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume”

Source : Eric Jensen (2005). “Teaching with the Brain in Mind”, p.11, ASCD
“Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live in a world of differing opinions. Philosophical disputes don't often affect the price of fish or wine.”

Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow
“What I had later learned was that the FBI knew I was going to New York a couple days after the raid.”
“Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans. Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they've been fixed, then they are happy and sedate. They are contented and cheerful. They don't go around peeing on the furniture and such.”

Source : "Feingold Rides the Zeitgeist Over Eleanor Clift" by Digby, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.
“There was a man. And it happened--as such things often so happen--that this man we went back into his days that were gone. Again and again and again he went back. Even as every man, even as you and I, so this man went back into his Yesterdays.”

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