Categories Starting with “R”

“The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.”

— René Descartes

“What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.”

— David Hume

“Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.”

— Montesquieu

“When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.”

— Horace

“It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.”

— Thomas Paine

“Fatigue is the best pillow.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.”

— Tom Stoppard

“Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.”

— Bill Gates