Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer French philosopher & physician (1875 - 1965)


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- Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

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- Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

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- Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

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- A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

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- A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

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- Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

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- Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

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- Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

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- Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

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- Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

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- An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.

Albert Schweitzer -
- Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always.

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- Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

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- There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

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- Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

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- The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

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- Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

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- the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.

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- Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.