名人名言和谚语

1. Challenging Authorities

(1). “Authority is quite degrading.”

Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

(2). “Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.”

Seneca quotes (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)

(3). “The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.”

Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)

2. Perfectionism

(1). “The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings”

James Matthew Barrie quotes (Scottish Dramatist and Novelist best known as the creator of Peter Pan, 1860-1937)

(2). \"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”

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James Matthew Barrie quotes (Scottish Dramatist and Novelist best known as the creator of Peter Pan, 1860-1937)

(3). “What is genius?- It is the power to be a boy again at will”

James Matthew Barrie quotes (Scottish Dramatist and Novelist best known as the creator of Peter Pan, 1860-1937)

3. Failure and Success / Past and Present

(1). Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it. (Horace, ancient Roman poet)

(2). Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. (H. J. Kaier, American businessman)

(3). No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. (William Penn, British admiral)

4. Idealism and Reality / Cooperation and Competition

(1). Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction, there is no life. (Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer)

(2). Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar. (Edmond Burke, British statesman)

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(3). The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. (Franklin Roosevelt, American president)

5. Individual Values and Impacts (Saying without Source)

(1). Circumstances are the rulers of the week, instruments of the wise.

(2). Times change and we change with them.

(3). Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.

6. Subjective and Objective (Saying without Source)

(1). Every cloud has a silver lining.

(2). Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth discover virtue.

(3). Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.

7. Science and Technology (Environmental Protection VS Pollution)

(1). Punishment is justice for the unjust. (Augustine, British writer)

(2).The more we exploit nature, the more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. (Morris K. Udall, American Congressman)

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(3). In nature there are no rewards or punishments; ther are consequences (Horacle Annexley Vachell, British writer)

8. Heroes and Celebrities

(1). Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. (Albert Einstein, American physicist)

(2). Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted. (R. Peters, American jurist)

(3). Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. (Samuel Johnson, British writer and critic)

9. Lies and White Lies

(1). Lies have short legs. (saying without resource)

(2). We all tell lies-little lies, big lies, necessity lies in order to insure social and psychological peace and comfort. (Howard Mel, USA writer)

(3). Personality is to man what perfumes is to a flower. (C C Schwab, USA Businessman)

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