Thoughtful Thursday

"Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it."
- Kenneth Bancroft Clark

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
- Helen Keller

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
- Aristotle

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
- James Baldwin

"How often in life it is a truth that we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies."
- Leon Uris

"The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment not of sentiment, but of history."
- Woodrow Wilson

"I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work."
- Neil Armstrong