David Ben Gurion Quotes
"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
(Related: Fear, Knowledge, Courage)
"If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert."
- David Ben Gurion
"In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."
- David Ben Gurion
(Related: Israel, Miracles, Order)
"Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism."
- David Ben Gurion
(Related: People, Fight, Heroism, Israel, World)
"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
(Related: 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
(Related: Time, People, Suffering, Will, World)
"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
(Related: State, Will, World)
"Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times."
- David Ben Gurion
(Related: Art, Thought, Practice)
"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
(Related: Faith, People, America, Country, France, Russia, Will)
"Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs."
- David Ben Gurion
(Related: Change, History)
"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence."
- David Ben Gurion
(Related: Independence)
"Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist."
- David Ben Gurion
(Related: Miracles)