the meaning of this quote:"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present." (Abe Lincoln
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Basically the US had gone through 40 years without any major conflicts, and Abe was trying to say don't reside in the peaceful past, look at what is happening around us today, and be prepared.
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To announce that there must be No Criticism of  the president, \nOr that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, \nis not only unpatriotic and servile, \nbut is morally treasonable to the  American public.\n\n— Theodore   Roosevelt\n\n\nGo Ahead And Fire Me
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Lincoln is describing a way to defeat your enemies.  By 'making friends' or attempting at being nice or civil with your enemies that will make them even more angry and defeat the purpose of them being mean to you. It's kind of like having a little brother. He will tease you to make you mad and respond to him. But if you act nicely back, or ignore him, then he has no point to keep bugging you if you won't ever react in the way he wants you to. The same thing can be said for Lincoln's quote.
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to understand the quote you might need to see the whole thing:\n"[F]reedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."\n\nI think it means that you have the freedom to be different about things that matter to you the most or something I really don't know haha but there's the whole quote maybe that will help
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That is kind of a tricky little quote. Sometimes placing it in context can help. This is a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self Reliance," which discourages basing one's opinions and actions on common opinion in favor of self-trust (see the full essay at http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm). \nI think the point of this quote is that it's very desireable to have one's own original thoughts and opinions, and to live by them.  It's easier to live by one's own convictions and not be persuaded by others when in isolation (that's the "independence of solitude"). However, not so special to isolate oneself from others in order to attain this ideal. Because it's difficult to live by one's own thoughts and opinions while being a part of society, it's something only a "finished man" can truly do. Also, in the essay, Emerson refers to being childlike - unselfish, non-judgmental, open-minded, uncynical, unhesitant - as something to admire. So I think that's where the seemingly misplaced "perfect sweetness" comes in. When a man can remain pure of heart while living in the harsh world and also keeping and living by his own ideals. \nWhat do you think?
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"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."---George Santayana \n\nIt's not quite the quote you gave, but it's close.
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I beleive the quote was:\n"Without the a little rain, there would be no rainbow."\n\nby Jerry Chin
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"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to stand by and do nothing." - Edmund Burke
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"The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is for Good Men to do Nothing." \n-Edmund Burke
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The devil is in the details, although there is a more positive quote not as well known.\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/59/3/devilisinthe.html
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When you realize that all that has happened, is just about the only way it could work out, then you can accept the past, and begin to forgive, and forget. It sounds dogmatic, and implies predestination, but it's true. Go in peace...
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Existentialist angst--man is adrift in a universe he cannot possibly account for, and yet is accountable in.  Accountable to what?  To forces beyond his control; beyond accountability.  And if that is not enough, accountable to his own conscience: "Between our own thoughts, we are accused or excused."
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"It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense." ~Mark Twain\n\n"There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little which one can be certain."  ~W. Somerset Maugham\n\n"Education is the discovery of our own ignorance."  ~Wil Durant\n\n"Courage means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die."  ~ G. K. Chesterton
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The quote is that "The unexamined life is not worth living". What he meant was that we should all question our lives and things in it. If you do not question things, you just go along with everybody else..nothing advances. If you do not question things..there would be no advances in science or anything else......if someone didn't ask how you could improve  writing your report, and figure it all out, we'd still be writing on caves. If you stop asking how, or why etc. you remain the same..nothing changes or gets better...
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"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation."\n     --HERBERT SPENCER
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I've never seen that before, but it's an intriguing statement.  I can see the truth in it in a way.  If you prefer to turn a blind eye to issues or bury your head in the sand, you are doomed to extinction.  The ones who speak up and fight for what they believe in are the ones who will change and shape the world.  There's some good food for thought here.
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The whole quote is: Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts.  It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.  ~William Temple