Isaltino Gomes Quotes & Sayings

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self. — Novalis

Tyranny seldom announces itself ... In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical. — Joseph Sobran

Fearlessness is an accounting trick. You feel the fear; you just defer it. I could stand on the cliff immobile, feeling terrified, or I could leap and feel the terror while falling. — Elizabeth McCracken

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. — Charles De Gaulle

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits. — Jack Kilby

As when astronaut Mike Mulhane was asked by a NASA psychiatrist what epitaph he'd like to have on his gravestone, Mulhane answered, "A loving husband and devoted father," though in reality, he jokes in "Riding Rockets," "I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space. — Mary Roach

There are two sorts of sick conciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon. — J.I. Packer