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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

Quote by Charles W. Eliot about books, teachers

Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. "

Quote by Charles W. Eliot about world

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion...

Quote by Charles W. Eliot about opinion, evolution, happiness, thinking

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Quote by Ray Charles about fame

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

Quote by Ray Charles about love, word, use

What is a soul( soul misic)? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

Quote by Ray Charles about music, soul, force, police, light

I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.

Quote by Ray Charles about opinion

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Quote by Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord about life

A problem well started is a problem half solved.

Quote by Charles F. Kettering about problems

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Quote by Charles F. Kettering about ignorance, people

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Quote by Charles F. Kettering about reliability, impossible

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Quote by Charles F. Kettering about opinion

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

Quote by Charles F. Kettering about opinion, salary, progress, present, time

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Quote by Charles F. Kettering about future, interest, life

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Quote by Charles F. Kettering about invention, use, need

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Quote by Charles F. Kettering about imagination, limits, future, hope

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Quote by Charles F. Kettering about future, thinking, time

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Quote by Charles F. Kettering about thinking, things

Is a melancolic truth that even the greatest men have humble relatives.

Quote by Charles Dickens about truth, man

When I told the people of Northen Ireland that I was atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said: Yes, but it is the God of the Catholicsor the God of Protestants in whom you don't belive.

Quote by Quentin Crisp about god, woman, people