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Earth Quotes - Page 22

Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.

William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)”, p.62, Oxford University Press

If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally deranged it would barely be noticed. But what if I am not a fool, and that science itself has erred? Then the tragedy is incalculable!

Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (1999). “The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.95, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery

Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]

If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.

Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.30, Courier Corporation

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

Bertolt Brecht (2015). “The Threepenny Opera”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.121, Random House India

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.

Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.42, Vintage

We are not here on earth to change our destiny, but to fulfill it.

Guy Finley (2007). “365 Days to Let Go: Daily Insights to Change Your Life”, BookBaby