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When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.

- Alex Haley

 

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

- Lord Halifax

 

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

- Lord Halifax

 

It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.

- Louis J. Halle

 

Never 'for the sake of peace and quiet' deny your own experience or convictions.

- Dag Hammarskjold

 

You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give and possess the light as the lens does... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.

- Dag Hammarskjold

 

Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with truth.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

 

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

 

My parents always told me that people will never know how long it takes you to do something. They will only know how well it is done.

- Nancy Hanks

 

Suppose that tomorrow a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth, beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals. Would they have the right to treat you as you treat the animals you breed, keep and kill for food?

- John Harris

 

The 3 hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong."

- Sydney Harris

 

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

- Benjamin Harrison

 

We must do all in our power to educate the public, for I believe that in the end only a change of heart is really effective.

- Ruth Harrison

 

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

- B.H. Liddell Hart

 

In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.

- B.H. Liddell Hart

 

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

- B.H. Liddell Hart

 

A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.

- Moss Hart

 

The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

- Moss Hart

 

Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!

- Moss Hart

 

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

- Bret Harte

 

Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

- Vaclav Havel

 

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

- Vaclav Havel

 

The tragedy of medern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

- Vaclav Havel

 

Hope is not the conviction that everything will turn out but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

- Vaclav Havel

 

A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

- S.I. Hayakawa

 

Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that which the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.

- Fredrich August von Hayek

 

The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.

- Fredrich August von Hayek

 

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

- Fredrich August von Hayek

 

It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.

- Fredrich August von Hayek

 

Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand.

- Fredrich August von Hayek

 

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

- Fredrich August von Hayek

 

Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and practices. And each change in the actions of those affected in the first instance will require further adjustments that will gradually extend through the whole of society. Every change thus in a sense creates a "problem" for society, even though no single individual perceives it as such; it is gradually "solved" by the establishment of a new overall adjustment.

- Fredrich August von Hayek

 

...it is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.

- Fredrich August von Hayek

 

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

- Hazlitt

 

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

- Hazlitt

 

A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.

- Donald O. Hebb

 

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

- Friedrich Hebbel

 

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

- Joe E. Hedges

 

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

- Jascha Heifetz

 

There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgment.

- Malcolm Hein

 

One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.

- Heinrich Heine

 

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

- Heinrich Heine

 

God will forgive me; that's his business.

- Heinrich Heine

 

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

- Werner Heisenberg

 

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

- Lilliam Hellman

 

Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

- Lilliam Hellman

 

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. Letter to the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

- Lilliam Hellman

 

I do not believe in recovery. The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

- Lilliam Hellman

 

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

- Lilliam Hellman

 

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

- Claude Adrien Helvetius

 

But in modern war..you die like a dog for no good reason.

- Ernest Hemingway

 

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

- Ernest Hemingway

 

If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

- Ernest Hemingway

 

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

- Ernest Hemingway

 

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

- Ernest Hemingway

 

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

- Ernest Hemingway

 

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

- Ernest Hemingway

 

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

- Heraclitus

 

Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language.

- Heraclitus

 

He that knows nothing doubts nothing.

- Herbert

 

Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me, I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

- Bene Gesserit litany from "Dune" by Frank Herbert

 

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often.

- Oliver Herford

 

All man's gains are fruit of venturing.

- Herodotus

 

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

- Hermann Hesse

 

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

- Hermann Hesse

 

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

- Hermann Hesse

 

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.

- George T. Hewitt

 

We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.

- Cullen Hightower

 

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

- Napoleon Hill

 

What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.

- Hillel

 

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

- James Hilton

 

When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.

- Hindu proverb

 

Seeing a murder on television...will help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

- Alfred Hitchcock

 

Good men extend their pity, even unto the most des able animals. The moon doth not withhold the light, even from the cottage of a Chandala (outcast).

- Hitopadesa (Hindu)

 

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

- Eric Hoffer

 

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

- Josiah G. Holland

 

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion; while nothing is so foolish and baseless.

- Josiah G. Holland

 

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.

- Nicole Hollander

 

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

- John Andrew Holmes

 

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

- John Andrew Holmes

 

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

Take a music-bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

- Bob Hope

 

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

- Jane Hopkins

 

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

- Horace

 

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

- Horace

 

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The records do not show that Adam and Eve were married.

- Edgar Watson Howe

 

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

- Edgar Watson Howe

 

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

- Edgar Watson Howe

 

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

- Mary Howitt

 

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

- Fred Hoyle

 

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.

- Elbert Hubbard

 

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

- Elbert Hubbard

 

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

- Elbert Hubbard

 

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

- Elbert Hubbard

 

If you can't answer a man's agrument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

- Elbert Hubbard

 

Formal religion was organized for slaves; it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

- Elbert Hubbard

 

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough for some people.

- F.M. Hubbard

 

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

- Kin Hubbard

 

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

- Kin Hubbard

 

Beauty is only skin deep, but it is a valuable asset if you are poor or have not any sense.

- Kin Hubbard

 

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

- Kin Hubbard

 

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.

- Kin Hubbard

 

So far, I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.

- Kin Hubbard

 

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He's got to keep on delivering as he goes along.

- Carl Hubbell

 

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

- Langston Hughes

 

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.

- Victor Hugo

 

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

- Victor Hugo

 

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

- Victor Hugo

 

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

- Victor Hugo

 

What is love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.

- Victor Hugo

 

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

- Victor Hugo

 

As the purpose is emptied the heart is filled.

- Victor Hugo

 

The freedoms of self-sufficiency and independence taste especially sweet, especially after one has felt the yoke of nepotism... and the knife of hypocrisy.

- Gordon Hull

 

Just as 'a picture is worth a thousand words,' the cropping of the picture will determine what those words shall be.

- Gordon Hull

 

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

- David Hume

 

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

- Hubert Humphrey

 

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

- Hubert Humphrey

 

Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

- Zora Neale Hurston

 

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

 

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.

- Aldous Huxley

 

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

- Aldous Huxley

 

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

- Aldous Huxley

 

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

- Aldous Huxley

 

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

- Thomas Henry Huxley

 

In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.

- Thomas Henry Huxley

 

The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.

- Thomas Henry Huxley