Jan Smuts Quotes

#1. Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#2. Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.

Jan Smuts

#3. Fatigue is the best pillow.

Benjamin Franklin

#4. If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nations mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nations needs.

Jan Smuts

#5. Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

Jan Smuts

#6. Mankind's biggest flaw is the fact that he believes that something needs to change in order for him to feel good; it's his biggest hurdle, his largest demon, his one and only true enemy.

D.S. Luca

#7. In spite of the great advances which have been made in our knowledge, some fundamental gaps remain. Matter, life and mind still remain utter disparate phenomena, yet the concepts of all three arise in experience; and in the human all three meet and intermingle.

Jan Smuts

#8. What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

Jan Smuts

#9. Evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.

Jan Smuts

#10. A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself

Jan Smuts

#11. For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.

Alexander Dubcek

#12. If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

Sebastian Faulks

#13. I wrote it three times - with a Thesaurus.

Gypsy Rose Lee

#14. You should be accumulating really great relationships throughout your career.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#15. Real affection comes from the face. Those political leaders, when they meet, they are always hugging, but not very genuine. Deep, sincerity comes from face and eye.

Dalai Lama

#16. This is a good world. We need not approve of all the items in it, nor of all the individuals in it; but the world itself-which is more than its parts or individuals; which has a soul, a spirit, a fundamental relation to each of us deeper than all other relations-is a friendly world.

Jan Smuts

#17. The more you read the more you realized that you dont know alot of things.

Dra. Hartati Nurwijaya

#18. Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.

Jan Smuts

#19. LIFE is about meeting strangers in half way.

Windy Ariestanty

#20. The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than hands and feet, of which in truth she is but the extension. The emotional appeal of nature is tremendous, sometimes almost more than one can bear.

Jan Smuts

#21. When in doubt, do the courageous thing.

Jan Smuts

#22. I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.

Sarah Dessen

#23. When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart and very motivated and worked very hard, but they were still humans, whereas before they were kind of mythical creatures to me.

George Smoot

#24. History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

Jan Smuts

#25. To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.

Jan Smuts

#26. If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.

Jan Smuts

#27. Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

Jan Smuts