195 Quotes by Charles Lindbergh

I don’t believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn’t worth living.

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man’s potentialities appear to be unbounded.

Life’s values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

And if at times you renounce experience and mind’s heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit, leaving you alone flying above a forgotten cloud bank, somewhere in the solitude of interstellar space.

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?

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life’s progress would be ended.

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct’s wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

I don’t believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don’t take any chances at all.

Accuracy means something to me. It’s vital to my sense of values. I’ve learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate, aircraft crash. If pilots are inaccurate, they get lost-sometimes killed. In my profession life itself depends on accuracy.