Quotes To Make you Think



Quotes To Make you Think

For each of the following quotes you are to write a reflection to become part of your journal you will be handing in throughout the semester. You are to tell me what you think the quote means and also how it can help us become better human beings. Remember, use examples to support your answers.

Quote #1

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

Quote #2

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

American Author (1817 -1862)

Quote # 3

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Pearl S. Buck

American Writer (1892 - 1973)

Quote # 4

It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1874 - 1965)

Quote #5

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei

Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (1564-1642)

Quote # 6

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people 
will find a way around the laws.

Plato

Greek Philosopher, mentor to Aristotle, student of Socrates (434-327 BC)

Quote #7

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Charles Edwin Anson Markham

American poet (April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940)

Quote #8

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

Pope John Paul II

265th Pope and the first Polish Pope (May 18, 1920 - April 5, 2005)

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