Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
- Thomas Paine - In Art
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
- Thomas Carlyle - In Business
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
- Thomas Carlyle - In Business
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
- Thomas A. Edison - In Business
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Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas A. Edison - In Business
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Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
- Thomas J. Watson - In Business
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If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
- Thomas J. Watson - In Business
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Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
- Thomas J. Watson - In Business
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A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann - In Mortality
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If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes - In Dreams
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
- Thomas Edward Lawrence - In Dreams
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I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
- Debi Thomas - In Dreams
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One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
- Marlo Thomas - In Equality
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
- Thomas Fuller - In Forgiveness
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas - In Friendship
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison - In Friendship
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
- Thomas Jefferson - In Friendship
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That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
- Thomas Jefferson - In Government
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson - In Government
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
- Thomas Paine - In Government
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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
- Thomas Paine - In Government
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That government is best which governs least.
- Thomas Paine - In Government
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson - In History
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There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
- Thomas W. Higginson - In Humor
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When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
- Thomas W. Higginson - In Humor
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
- Thomas W. Higginson - In Humor
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
- Thomas W. Higginson - In Humor
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Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas - In Love
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
- Thomas Carlyle - In Love
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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
- Lord Thomas Dewar - In Love
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The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.
- Edward Thomas - In Love
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
- Thomas Carlyle - In Music
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
- Thomas Browne - In Nature
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By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
- Thomas Merton - In Nature
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Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back.
- Gwyn Thomas - In Nature
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Thomas Jefferson - In Peace
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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
- Thomas Gray - In Poetry
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
- Thomas Hardy - In Poetry
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
- Thomas B. Macaulay - In Poetry
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You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.
- Dylan Thomas - In Poetry
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
- Thomas Hobbes - In Politics
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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
- Thomas Jefferson - In Politics
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
- Thomas Jefferson - In Politics
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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
- Thomas B. Macaulay - In Politics
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You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
- Thomas P. O'Neill - In Politics
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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine - In Politics
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson - In Religion
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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Henry Huxley - In Science
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Henry Huxley - In Science
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
- Thomas Henry Huxley - In Science
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The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
- Lewis Thomas - In Science
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The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.
- Lewis Thomas - In Science
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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
- Lewis Thomas - In Science
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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
- Thomas Szasz - In Society
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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
- Thomas Szasz - In Society
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas J. Watson - In Technology
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
- Thomas A. Edison - In War
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- Thomas Mann - In War
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
- Thomas Carlyle - In Workplace
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas A. Edison - In Workplace
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
- Thomas A. Edison - In Workplace
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There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas A. Edison - In Workplace
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
- Thomas A. Edison - In Workplace
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
- Thomas A. Edison - In Workplace
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas A. Edison - In Workplace
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All things are difficult before they are easy.
- Thomas Fuller - In Workplace
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