R. B. Thomas Quotes

The action of Mind (thought) plants that nucleus which, if allowed to grow undisturbed, will eventually attract to itself all the conditions necessary for its manifestation in outward visible form.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole.

A military without political training is a potential criminal.

Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.

I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.

The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

The secret to enjoying life is to take an interest in it.

The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.

God will provide the food, but he will not cook the dinner.

Don't think about what can happen in a month. Don't think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be!

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow.

Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides.

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.

The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Anyone who sacrifices his dreams to reality is forever beaten.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain.

What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.