Norbert Wiener Quotes

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.

We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.

We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well survive - survive the condemnations, survive the halter, by Jove! And there are things - they look small enough sometimes too - by which some of us are totally and completely undone.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.

The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.

And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

Shakespeare said it best,' Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish, misshapen head. 'Something along these lines: if we die today, we do not have to die tomorrow, so let us look to the best in each other

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

Do well and right and let the world sink.

Let us strive for personal, practical integrity in every endeavor, regardless of how mundane or inconsequential it may seem.

All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back.

You may not be where you want to be, but you can look back and be thankful you're not where you used to be.

I don't want to be like you. I look for the pure of heart, and the ones that have made a start.

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.