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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert EinsteinFrom LIFE, 2 May 1955.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein1932 response quoted in The New York Times

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert EinsteinMilitant Pacifism

Summer grasses— all that remains of warriors’ dreams.

Matsuo BashoOku no Hosomichi

Departing spring— birds cry, and in the eyes of fish are tears.

Matsuo BashoOku no Hosomichi

The months and days are travelers through the ages, and the years that come and go are also wayfarers.

Matsuo BashoOku no Hosomichi

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

Anna SewellBlack Beauty

But still I say, do your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.

Anna SewellBlack Beauty

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Jane AddamsNewer Ideals of Peace

In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.

Jane AddamsTwenty Years at Hull-House

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Jane AddamsHow Would You Uplift the Masses?

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Anna SewellBlack Beauty

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Jane AddamsDemocracy and Social Ethics

Let the elderly, women, and children lie by the roadside without fear of harm.

Kamehameha IKānāwai Māmalahoe (1797)

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint ExuperyThe Little Prince

The greatest gift a doctor can give is not just skill, but presence—to be there when needed, without hesitation.

Antoine De Saint ExuperyThe Little Prince

Dear Commander Nie, I feel really unwell today. Perhaps I have to bid farewell to you all... Thousands of heartfelt thanks to you and to all our dear comrades.

Antoine De Saint ExuperyThe Little Prince

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

L. Frank BaumThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

L. Frank BaumThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.

Norman BethuneThe Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune’s Writing and Art

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