My Favourite Quotations
“Vox populi, vox dei” (the voice of the people is the voice of God)
“Other men live to eat, while I eat to live” – Socrates (Diogenes Laertius)
“A fool oftens fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy, & a wise man because he thinks what is easy is difficult” – Churton Collins (Aphorism)
“FEAR NOT” – Genesis
“Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is the fear itself!” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1st Inaugural Address.March 4, 1933)
“I can forgive but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying ‘I cannot forgive’ ” – Henry Ward Beecher (Life Thoughts)
“The larger part of goodness is the will to become good (itaque pars magna bonitatis est velle fieri bonum) – Seneca (Epistulae ad Lucilium Epis)
“Das Erste und Letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahrheitsliebe” (The first and the last thing required of genius is the love of Thruth) – Goethe (Sprueche in Prosa)
“Experience teaches slowly, & at the cost of mistakes” – James Anthony Froude (Short Studies on Great Subjects “Party Politics”)
“I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bossoms, until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal” -Abraham Lincoln (Speech. July 10,1858)
“He that would govern others, first should be the Master of Himself” – Phillip Massinger (The Bondman)
“Carpediem! (Rebut hari ini!)”
“Cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am)” – Rene Descartes
“Satu-satunya yang pasti di dunia adalah ketidakpastian” – Albert Einstein
“A life without a risk is a life unlived”
“All my life changing everyday in every possible way”
“Kita enggak akan pernah tahu KAPAN, DI MANA, SIAPA, MENGAPA, & DARI MANA keindahan sebuah hati berawal” – 5 CM
‘Think outside the box!”
“Orang yang paling bijaksana adalah orang yang mengetahui bahwa dirinya tidak tahu” – Socrates
“ WOMAN was created from the ribs of a man…
Not from his head to be above him,
Nor from his feet to be walk upon him.
But from his side to be equal,
Near to his arm to be protected,
and close to his heart to be loved”
