I.B. George Quotes

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

My main concern is with the world order

We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

You can make your marriage a little bit of heaven on earth by following God's plan of teamwork.

Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

Nothing burns like the cold.

Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

At my age flowers scare me.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.

I can't see for the life of me how an attempt to understand the universe, which I believe comes from God, can alienate us from God.

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.

Real talent is a mystery, and people who've got it, know it.

The best work in the world was always done by members of the aristocracy.

I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't allow this life - the only thing I know to exist - to be wasted.

I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my 20s and 30s. No Botox for me.

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.

The transcendent importance of love and good-will in all human relationships is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and upon society.

Honor the ocean of love.

I was never a pipe or bong man. That's California stuff. I was an Eastern roller.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).

Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.