Abraham Quotes

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.

Always remember: Life is for enjoying.

If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.

Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand.

Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, 'This is mine!'

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

We worship God through our questions.

Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.

To be is to stand for.

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

A soul can create only when alone.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end as long as love is pure and true.

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her