Charles Lindbergh Quotes
Top 66 wise famous quotes and sayings by Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.
Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.
We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction,
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values ... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?
I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.
Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.
We found a water pipe, tied the flag to it and put it up. Then all hell broke loose below. Troops cheered, ships blew whistles, some men openly wept.
Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.
I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.
Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership
When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.
[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.
I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?
Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.
Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.
To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.
Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.
If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.
Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.
At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.
There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.
We Americans are a primitive people ... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.
No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.
What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.