Quote of the dayAugust 25
Quotes for August 2544 quotes · 39 authors
The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every August 25: the anniversary does not move.
- Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.Robert Bresson
Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century
4.3 · 45 votes · 18 reads
- It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Isaac NewtonMathematicianEnglish1643 · 17th century
5.0 · 46 votes · 48 reads
- My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.
Barack ObamaPoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century
3.9 · 36 votes · 8 reads
- Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Thomas HobbesPhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century
3.6 · 38 votes · 61 reads
- Nothing preaches better than the act.
3.5 · 18 votes · 44 reads
- That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
SenecaPhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC
4.3 · 16 votes · 150 reads
- The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in fMontaigne
PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century
3.3 · 26 votes · 113 reads
- There are no second acts in American lives.
4.0 · 59 votes · 132 reads
- We build too many walls and not enough bridges.Isaac Newton
MathematicianEnglish1643 · 17th century
3.7 · 46 votes · 90 reads
- We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.
Peter AbelardTheologianFrench1079 · 11th century
4.8 · 32 votes · 187 reads
- Where liberty is, there is my country.
3.8 · 18 votes · 66 reads
- Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
3.9 · 41 votes · 33 reads
