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Please enjoy these inspirational quotes by Charles Darwin.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting
on his past actions and their motives -
of approving of some and disapproving of others.
- Charles Darwin
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
Animals, whom we have made our slaves,
we do not like to consider our equal.
- Charles Darwin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The very essence of instinct is that
it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles Darwin
In the struggle for survival,
the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals
because they succeed in adapting
themselves best to their environment.
- Charles Darwin
On the ordinary view of each species
having been independently created,
we gain no scientific explanation.
- Charles Darwin
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin
What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
I have called this principle,
by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved,
by the term of Natural Selection.
- Charles Darwin
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped,
probably arboreal in its habits.
- Charles Darwin
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare,
and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
- Charles Darwin
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed
in any subject as I am in mine.
- Charles Darwin
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for
grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
- Charles Darwin
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -
a mere heart of stone.
- Charles Darwin
I love fools' experiments.
I am always making them.
- Charles Darwin
I cannot persuade myself that a
beneficent and omnipotent God
would have designedly created parasitic wasps
with the express intention of their feeding
within the living bodies of caterpillars.
- Charles Darwin
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
Man tends to increase at a greater rate
than his means of subsistence.
- Charles Darwin
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts
and grinding out conclusions.
- Charles Darwin
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science,
for they often endure long; but false views,
if supported by some evidence, do little harm,
for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
- Charles Darwin
About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
If we are to go forward, we must go back
and rediscover those precious values -
that all reality hinges on moral foundations
and that all reality has spiritual control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The acceptance of oneself is
the essence of the whole moral problem
and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.
- Carl Jung
Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Increase of material comforts,
it may be generally laid down,
does not in any way whatsoever
conduce to moral growth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
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
The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain
The interests of a nation, when well understood,
will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
- Thomas Jefferson
I am an Epicurean.
I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus
as containing everything rational in moral philosophy
which Greek and Roman leave to us.
- Thomas Jefferson
I look forward to a great future for America -
a future in which our country will match its military strength
with our moral restraint,
its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
- John F. Kennedy
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside,
is that they cannot win and their participants know it.
Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary
because it invites defeat.
It involves an emotional catharsis,
but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come,
not of booky teaching, but of experience.
- Mark Twain
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment,
and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility
in the realm of faith and morals.
- Albert Schweitzer
To educate a person in mind and not in morals
is to educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Every fact is related on one side to sensation,
and, on the other, to morals.
The game of thought is, on the appearance
of one of these two sides,
to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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