Collection of Quotes – Fall ’25

“To wonder is to begin to understand.”

       Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Where the prize is highest, there, too, will you find the best and the bravest.”

       Pericles

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

       Mae West

“A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”

       James P. Carse

“You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.”

       George Lucas

“The reality is there is no Golden Age. There are simply people with bad memories.”

       Fareed Zakaria

“A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want.”

      Hannah Arendt

“Luck is the residue of design.”

       John Milton

“When you want to test the depths of the stream, don’t use both feet.”

       Chinese Proverb

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

       James Madison

“Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”

       Frantz Fanon

“Maturity requires you to understand where the right to be you ends and your obligation to others begins.”

       Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

“When desire and data are in collision, evidence sometimes loses out to emotion.”

       Brian Keating

“Every next level of life will demand a different you.”

        Leonardo DiCaprio

 

CRM 10/7/25