Quotes About Legacy

A thinker will die, but his profound ideas have wings that fly forever.

I don't mind writing philosophical thoughts. If I don't want to die like one.

The whole purpose of education is to transfer and transform knowledge for the future generations so that they can transcend their lives and humanity as a whole.

We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo we didn't light itBut we tried to fight it

We are the children of gods and angels.

I write to reach eternity

Remember to have a little faith. When you die, I believe, God isn't going to ask you what you published. God's going to ask you what you wrote.

I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!

Only your children's grandchildren may remember our stories, but the stories are not what makes a life. It's living with a smile and a free spirit that will ripple throughout the stars.

I don't fear death, I fear I haven't done enough before it happens

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

I make intelligence cool. I make spirituality cool. If we can make one's devotion to God cool, then I think I did a great thing. I can rest in peace.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.

The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.

The jealousy of the dead is lasting!

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

I want to be like the air. The good-hearted person whose kindness overflows and people realize how important she was to them, once she is gone. I want to be that kind of person.

Let me, tonight look back across the span Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say- Because of some good act to beast or human- The world is better that I lived today.