# Quote of the Day for October 2, 2026

> Twelve hand-picked inspirational quotes for October 2, 2026, refreshed every morning.

Friday, October 2, 2026 · twelve hand-picked quotes for today.

## Quote of the day

> “A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!”

Lewis Black

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## Eleven more for today

1. “Dreams are the touchstones of our character.” — Henry David Thoreau · Dreams Quotes

2. “Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.” — Usher · Dreams Quotes

3. “Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.” — H. P. Lovecraft · Dreams Quotes

4. “At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.” — Christopher Reeve · Dreams Quotes

5. “If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.” — Galileo Galilei · Learning Quotes

6. “The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.” — Michelle Obama · Learning Quotes

7. “Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.” — P. J. O'Rourke · Learning Quotes

8. “You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.” — Albert Camus · Wisdom

9. “Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.” — Benjamin Franklin · Wisdom

10. “Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.” — Leonardo da Vinci · Wisdom

11. “I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.” — Jimmy Carter · Wisdom

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