Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-12-18 Dec 17, 2007All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.~ Albert EinsteinIn a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.~ Alexander HamiltonAnyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.~ Eleanor RooseveltGod requireth not a uniformity of religion.~ Roger WilliamsReligious liberty is the chief cornerstone of the American system of government, and provisions for its security are embedded in the written charter and interwoven in the moral fabric of its laws. Anything that tends to invade a right so essential and sacred must be carefully guarded against, and I am satisfied that my countrymen, ever mindful of the suffering and sacrifices necessary to obtain it, will never consent to its impairment for any reason or under any pretext whatsoever.~ Thomas F. Bayard Dec 14, 2007The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.~ PlutarchOne's first step in wisdom is to question everything -- and one's last is to come to terms with everything.~ Georg Christoph LichtenbergThe elegance of honesty needs no adornment.~ Merry Browne Dec 13, 2007Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.~ Herman HesseIt is not white hair that engenders wisdom.~ MenanderThere is no wisdom without knowledge.~ Tom Braun Dec 12, 2007To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.~ Theodore RooseveltWithout doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.~ Lord Herbert Louis SamuelIt is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.~ William Kingdon Clifford Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print