Excellent Quotes for SAT Essays

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney (1901-1966)

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."

- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."

- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

- Walt Disney (1901-1966)

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."

- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil, that takes religion."

- Steven Weinberg (1933-)

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."

- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."

"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest."

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."

"Sometimes it is not enough that we do our best; we must do what is required."

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"Wit is educated insolence."

- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

  

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

"Well done is better than well said."

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."

- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."

- definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."

- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it."

- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

- Walt Disney (1901-1966)

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault."

- Henry Kissinger (1923-)

"It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."

- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I would have made a good Pope."

- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)

"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."

- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"Logic is in the eye of the logician."

- Gloria Steinem

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."

- Goethe (1749-1832)

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."

- Walt Disney (1901-1966)

"I am not young enough to know everything."

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"The gods too are fond of a joke."

- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."

- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday."

- Woody Allen (1935-)

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."

- Woody Allen (1935-)

"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest."

- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."

- Lao-Tzu (570?-490? BC)

"Never mistake motion for action."

- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"Sometimes it is not enough that we do our best; we must do what is required."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I think it would be a good idea."

- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), 

when asked what he thought of Western civilization

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."

- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."

- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Write drunk; edit sober."

- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"Love is friendship set on fire."

- Jeremy Taylor

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."

- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

- Paul Valery (1871-1945)

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."

- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)

"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil, that takes religion."

- Steven Weinberg (1933-)

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."

- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)