top of page
.png){kind=small}
Exlpore more Earth quotes
"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."
"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."
Explore more quotes by Matthew Simpson
"Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age."
"Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known."
"Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended."
"There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part."
"Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state."
"If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world."
"We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others."
"If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources."
bottom of page