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If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac NewtonLetter to Robert Hooke

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others.

Adam SmithThe Theory of Moral Sentiments

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam SmithThe Wealth of Nations

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Adam SmithThe Wealth of Nations

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world.

John LockeLetter to Anthony Collins

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

John LockeSecond Treatise of Government

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan SwiftThoughts on Various Subjects

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan SwiftThoughts on Various Subjects

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Jonathan SwiftVarious attributed

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel JohnsonRasselas

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel JohnsonVarious attributed

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Samuel JohnsonConversation recorded by Boswell

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Alexander PopeAn Essay on Criticism

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Alexander PopeAn Essay on Man

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Alexander PopeAn Essay on Criticism

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas JeffersonVarious letters

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas JeffersonVarious writings

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.

Thomas JeffersonDeclaration of Independence

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham LincolnGettysburg Address

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