Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.