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David Ben Gurion
Israeli
Statesman
About the author
If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.
David Ben Gurion,
Israeli
Statesman
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
David Ben Gurion,
Israeli
Statesman
#Europe
#America
#Scientists
#Generations
Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
David Ben Gurion,
Israeli
Statesman
#Fear
#Knowledge
#Courage
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
David Ben Gurion,
Israeli
Statesman
#Fear
#Knowledge
#Courage
Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.
David Ben Gurion,
Israeli
Statesman
#Time
#People
#Will
#World
#Suffering
There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.
David Ben Gurion,
Israeli
Statesman
#Will
#World
#State
Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.
David Ben Gurion,
Israeli
Statesman
#Art
#Practice
#Thought
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.
David Ben Gurion,
Israeli
Statesman
#People
#Will
#Country
#Faith
#America
#France
#Russia
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
David Ben Gurion,
Israeli
Statesman
#History
#Change
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
David Ben Gurion,
Israeli
Statesman
#Independence
Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.
David Ben Gurion,
Israeli
Statesman
#Miracles
In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
David Ben Gurion,
Israeli
Statesman
#Miracles
#Israel
#Order