Criminal Mind Quotes - Page 5

• The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspirational, Wise, Memories

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.14, Counterpoint Press

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• Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

  Albert Einstein

  Humorous, Men, Enemy

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.28, Broadway Books

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• There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

  Voltaire

  Political, Purpose

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• A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Philosophical

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• The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

  Voltaire

  Dream, Men, Reality

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• The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Names are not always what they seem.

  Mark Twain

  Names, Labyrinth, Open Mind

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.317, Courier Corporation

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• Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

  Mark Twain

  Insanity, Insane, Riddle

  Mark Twain (2010). “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg: And Other Stories”, p.161, The Floating Press

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• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Fear, Cancer

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• Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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• I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Happiness, Reality

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (Volume I)". Book by Christian Nestell Bovee, 1862.

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• Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

  Anthony Brandt

  Change, Family, Grandparent

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• Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

  Andre Maurois

  Inspirational, Family, Men

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• Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Badass, Anger

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

  Rose Kennedy

  Adversity, Bird, Singing

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• Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

  William Shakespeare

  Wish, Criminals, Common

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• The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

  Robert Bolt

  Believe, Ideas, Mind

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• The healthy man does not torture others.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Healthy, Doe

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The Symbolic life”

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  The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Relationship, Happiness, Sympathy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

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• When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

  Euripides

  Hurt, Character, Men

  Euripides, Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald (1936). “The Alcestis of Euripides: An English Version”

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• Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Lying, Animal

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• A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Albert Einstein: a documentary biography". Book by Carl Seelig translated by Mervyn Savill (p. 194), 1956.

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