Theodor Adorno (1903-1969, philosopher)
"Order, however, is not good in itself. It would be so only as a good order." (Culture Industry Reconsidered, 1963)
Antisthenes (c. 446 - 366 BC, philosopher)
"The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education." (Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus)
Buddha (c. 6th - 5th centuries BC, religious leader)
"Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace." (Dhammapada)
Kenneth Burke (1897-1993, poet)
"You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his." (A Rhetoric of Motives, 1969)
Cicero (106 - 43 BC, statesman)
"For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions." (On the Laws)
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758, theologian)
"Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead." (Quoted in Burning Words of Brilliant Writers by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert)
Empedocles (c. 494 - 434 BC, philosopher)
"...learning improves the sprit." (On Nature)
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814, philosopher)
"Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent..." (The Vocation of the Scholar, 1794)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, activist)
"Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between two communities in South Africa can be removed." (Indian Opinion, 1903)
Gorgias (c. 483 - 375 BC, philosopher)
"Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pain." (AZQuotes.com)
R. M. Hare (1919-2002, philosopher)
"What the principle of utility requires of me is to for each man affected by my actions what I wish were done for me in the hypothetical circumstances that I were in precisely his situation..." (Ethical Theory and Utilitarianism, 1982)
Heraclitus (c. 500 BC, philosopher)
"Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know." (Numbered Fragments)
Hypatia (c. 350 - 415 AD, philosopher)
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." (AZQuotes.com)
Isocrates (436 - 338 BC, rhetorician)
"For just as we see the bee settling on the all the flowers, and sipping the best from each, so also those who aspire to culture ought not to leave anything untasted, but should gather useful knowledge from every source." (To Demonicus)
Jesus (c. 6 BC - 33 AD, religious leader)
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first great commandment. And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." (Matthew 22:37-40, KJV)
Laozi (c. 6th - 4th centuries BC, philosopher)
"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is." (Tao Te Ching)
Jeremy Lent (writer)
"If you think other humans are inherently cooperative, you'll approach a person differently than if you think that, ultimately, everyone is selfish and competitive." (Adopting a New Worldview That Is Intellectually Sound, 2021)
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013, activist)
"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner." (Long Walk to Freedom, 1995)
Mozi (c. 475 - 221 BC, philosopher)
"The wise man who has charge of governing the empire should know the cause of disorder before he can put it in order. Unless he knows its cause, he cannot regulate it." (Mozi)
Protagoras (490 - 420 BC, philosopher)
"There are two sides to every question." (Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius)
Mother Teresa (1910-1997, saint)
"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted." (Quoted in Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge)
Muhammad (570 - 632 AD, religious leader)
"Do not turn away a poor man... Even if you can give is half a date. If you love the poor and bring them near you... God will bring you near him on the Day of Resurrection." (Al-Timidhi, Sunni Hadith)
Philo (c. 20 BC - 50 AD, philosopher)
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle." (AZQuotes.com)
Xenophanes (c. 570 - 478 BC, philosopher)
"Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances." (AZQuotes.com)
Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC - 65 AD, statesman)
"All art is but imitation of nature." (Moral Letters to Lucilius)
Sextus Empiricus (2nd century BC)
"To every argument, an equal argument is opposed." (AZQuotes.com)
Malala Yousafzai (1997-now, activist)
"Education is one of the blessings of life - and one of its necessities." (Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, 2014)
Zeno of Citium (c. 334 - 262 BC, philosopher)
"That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason." (Quoted in De Nature Deorum by Cicero)
