Inspiration Quote by Charles Darwin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

““It is not the strongest of the species that survives,”

“The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.”

“I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, such as the works of Milton, Gray, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, gave me great pleasure, and even as a schoolboy I took intense delight in Shakespeare, especially in the historical plays. I have also said that formerly pictures gave me considerable, and music very great delight. But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry: I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music. Music generally sets me thinking too energetically on what I have been at work on, instead of giving me pleasure. I retain some taste for fine scenery, but it does not cause me the exquisite delight which it formerly did. On the other hand, novels which are works of the imagination, though not of a very high order, have been for years a wonderful relief and pleasure to me, and I often bless all novelists. A surprising number have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily–against which a law ought to be passed. A novel, according to my taste, does not come into the first class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love, and if a pretty woman all the better.”

“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”

“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.”

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”

“If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.”

“You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.”

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

“The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.”