Life
and Reality - Quotations
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Experience,
Living, Creating
Science, Mind, Ideas, Reality
Mathematics
Communication,
Community
Be
very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but
common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's
weakness, thousands have been destroyed by false appreciation of their own
strength.
Charles
C. Colton
Wisdom
is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison
S. Marden
Imagination
is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you
imagine; and at last you create what you will.
George
Bernard Shaw
Think
like a man of action and act like a man of thought.
Henri
Bergson
Imagination
is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you
imagine; and at last you create what you will.
George
Bernard Shaw
It
is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman
Melville
The
only source of knowledge is experience.
Einstein
Necessity,
who is the mother of invention.
Plato,
The Republic. Book II. 369C Aphorisms, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
I
am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more
important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert
Einstein
Failures
are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who
did and never thought.
John
Charles Salak
To
regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development.
Oscar
Wilde
To
live is to have problems and to solve problems is to grow intellectually.
J.
P. Guilford, Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
We
never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
William
Hazlitt
In
the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a
bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond
his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the
mixture he makes a work of art.
E.
M. Forster Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
The
greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter
Bagehot
What
helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but
restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail
to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Victor
Cherbuliez
I
find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas
Jefferson (1743-1826)
Only
the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
Confucius
We
cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Max
De Pree
I
can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always
reach my destination.
Jimmy
Dean
Change
is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain
to miss the future.
John
F. Kennedy, 1917-63
Life
consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
Ralph
W. Emerson (1847)
I
have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in
the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has
imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry
David Thoreau
Love
is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H.
L. Mencken
A
new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed
to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Charlie
Brower
Not
everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted
counts.
Sign
hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton
One
of the most valuable things I did learn while in college was that practice does
not make perfect. Practice makes -permanent-. If I practice inking techniques
and application wrong, I'll get it permanently wrong.
Brian
Douglas Ahern
One
should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as
the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life
is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of
the result to the community.
Albert
Einstein,"On Education"
Some
of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. The
error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Tyron
Edwards
Success
is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston
Churchill
If
I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah
Bankhead, actress
Failure
is an event, never a person.
William
D. Brown
Success
is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl
Wilson (1907-1987)
We
learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will
do by finding out what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake
never made a discovery.
Samuel
Smiles
History
has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking
obstacles before they triumphed. They finally won by their defeats.
B.
C. Forbes
You
win only if you aren't afraid to lose.
Rocky
Aoki
To
win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre
Corneille
Twenty
years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by
the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark
Twain
You
never really lose until you quit trying.
Mike
Ditka
Experience
is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Dan
Stanford
At
twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the
judgment.
Grattan
I
do nothing that a man of unlimited funds, superb physical endurance and maximum
scientific knowledge could not do.
Batman
To
be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit, call it the
target.
"To
be or not to be" is not the question; it is the answer.
Fred
Wolf
We
find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.
Frank
A Clark
Genius
is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas
Alva Edison (1847-1931) U. S. inventor
Reality
is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
Phillip
K. Dick
Life
is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Siren
Kierkegaard
Who
controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the
past.
George
Orwell
Time
is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils
Hector
Berlioz
When
all else is lost, the future still remains.
Christian
N. Bovee
Life
can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
Siren
Kierkegaard
You
wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four
hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is
the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one
receives either more or less than you receive.
Dr.
Thomas Arnold Bennett
Everything
has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
To
be a philosopher is to recognize the True, to desire the Beautiful, to establish
the Good. This is wisdom; all else is folly.
George
Santayana
Fundamental
progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Alfred
North Whitehead, W.H. Auden and L. Kronenberger The Viking Book of Aphorisms,
New York: Viking Press, 1966.
To
know that you know what you know, and that you do not know what you do not know,
that is true wisdom.
Confucious
The
wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the
foolish man, because it is different from his own.
Leo
Stein, Journey into the Self
One
measure of the power of a new idea is the resistance it meets.
Leroy
Jack Syrop
The
test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in
mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for
example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make
them otherwise.
F.
Scott Fitzgerald
My
work has always tried to unite the true with the beautiful and when I had to
choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
Hermann
Weyl, (1885 - 1955) In an obituary by Freeman J. Dyson in Nature, March 10,
1956.
In
science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone,
something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Paul
Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902- ) In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Adieu, Boston:
Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1977.
Let
us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us consider the two
possibilities. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing.
Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.
Blaise
Pascal, (1623-1662) Pensees. 1670.
One
began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was
the physicists' war, World War III (may it never come) will be the
mathematicians' war.
Philip
J. Davis and Reuben Hersh The Mathematical Experience, Boston: Birkhäuser,
1981.
For
a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be
calculated, it is the main source of concepts and principles by means of which
new theories can be created.
Freeman
Dyson, Mathematics in the Physical Sciences.
The
scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he
delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were
not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth
knowing, life would not be worth living. Of course, I do not here speak of that
beauty which strikes the senses, the beauty of qualities and appearances; not
that I undervalue such beauty, far from it, but it has nothing to do with
science; I mean that profounder beauty which comes from the harmonious order of
the parts and which a pure intelligence can grasp. This it is which gives body,
a structure so to speak, to the iridescent appearances which flatter our senses,
and without this support the beauty of these fugitive dreams would be only
imperfect, because it would be vague and always fleeting.
Jules
Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) French mathematician
Men
love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
The
most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of
all true art and science.
Albert
Einstein, (1879-1955) What I Believe.
I
believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very
powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody
feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least
acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and it's not
just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism,
there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and
pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science
establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.
Sagan
The
joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a
hitherto unknown truth are the same to me -- both have the flash of
enlightenment, the almost incredibly enhanced vision, and the ecstasy and
euphoria of released tension.
Paul
R. Halmos, I Want to be a Mathematician, Washington: MAA Spectrum, 1985
When
I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve
the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know
it is wrong.
Richard
Buckminster Fuller
The
whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle,
Metaphysica 10f-1045a
Occam's
Razor: Entities ought not to be multiplied except from necessity.
William
of Occam
To
me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it
means taking pleasure in them.
Jacob
Bronowski
Thinking
is the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
Where
the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face
it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of
Art and Science"
Albert
Einstein (?)
There
are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt
everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred
Korzybski
The
mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution,
which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new
questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires
creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
Albert
Einstein
Problems
that remain persistently insolvable should always be suspected as questions
asked in the wrong way.
Alan
Watts
It
is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not
in circumstances.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Common
sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
Common
sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A
sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive
James
Common
sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert
Einstein, (1879-1955) In E. T. Bell Mathematics, Queen and Servant of the
Sciences. 1952.
People
only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
The
power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not
got it.
George
Bernard Shaw
A
weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot
receive great ones.
Chesterfield
We
do not see the lens through which we look.
Ruth
Benedict
Nothing
else in the world . . . not all the armies . . . is so powerful as an idea whose
time has come.
Victor
Hugo
Ideas
are to our evolving mind what mutations are to our species.
Leroy
Jack Syrop
A
great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their
prejudices."
William
James
Just
because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's
useless.
Thomas
A Edison
Knowledge
is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin
H. Fischer
In
our age... men seem more than ever prone to confuse wisdom with knowledge, and
knowledge with information, and to try to solve problems of life in terms of
engineering.
T.S.
Eliot (1888-1965)
The
desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the
acquisition of it.
Sterne
Wonder
is the desire for knowledge.
St.
Thomas Aquinas
Meaning,
not raw facts, is what humanity seeks, and society is a collection of kits or
codes for processing raw facts into meaning. Ordering is one of the simplest and
most durable human methods for finding or making meaning. Take a variety of
things and put them in some kind of relationship, a simple sequence, a taxonomy,
a hierarchy, or a cause-and-effect pattern, say, and they make sense, apparently
for no better reason than the tautological one that order and relationship are
felt by human beings to be meaningful.
Alvin
Kernan. "The Death of Literature"
Information
anxiety is produced by the ever widening gap between what we understand and what
we think we should understand. It is the black hole between data and knowledge.
Every
great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of
authority.
Thomas
Huxley
If
you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life
doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene
Descartes, Discours de la Méthode. 1637.
Nothing
in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie
Curie
All
the limitative Theorems of metamathematics and the theory of computation suggest
that once the ability to represent your own structure has reached a certain
critical point, that is the kiss of death: it guarantees that you can never
represent yourself totally. Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, Church's
Undecidability Theorem, Turing's Halting Problem, Turski's Truth Theorem-- all
have the flavour of some ancient fairy tale which warns you that "To seek
self-knowledge is to embark on a journey which . . . will always be incomplete,
cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.
Douglas
R. Hofstadter
As
we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more
mysterious.
William
Durant
The
measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less
satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.
C.
W. Churchman
If
I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac
Newton (1642-1727), Letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1676, in H. W. Turnbull
(ed.) Correspondence of Isaac Newton, vol. 1 (1959) p. 416
Stealing
from one source is plagiarism. Stealing from many sources is research.
Laurendo
Almeida
I
do not know what I may appear to the world. But, to myself, I seem to have been
only like a boy playing on the seashore, diverting myself in now and then
finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the
great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Sir
Isaac Newton
Discovery
consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert
von Szent-Gyorgy
When
the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
Abraham
Maslow
Science
knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which
illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation
because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works
of thought and intelligence.
LouisPasteur,
René Dubos, Pasteur and Modern Science, Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1960, p.
145. (1)
If
my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German
and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove
untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a
Jew.
Albert
Einstein, (1879-1955) Address at the Sorbonne, Paris.
In
science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone,
something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Paul
Dirac (1902-1984)
Science
without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Einstein,
Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium (1941) ch. 13
I
believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank
Lloyd Wright
Science
does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon
or a murderer, each will use it differently.
Werner
von Braun
Science
has made gods of us before we were even worthy of being men.
Jean
Rostand
There
is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free to ask any question, to
doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any error. Where
science has been used in the past to erect a new dogmatism, that dogmatism has
found itself incompatible with the progress of science; and in the end, the
dogma has yielded, or science and freedom have perished together.
J.
Robert Oppenheimer
No
great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
Sir
Isaac Newton
Shall
I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?
Oliver
Heaviside (1850-1925) English physicist
[Those]
who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only
poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.
Claude
Bernard (1813-78) French physiologist, 1865
If
any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into
research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead.
Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but
find it in solving the puzzles of nature.
Albert
Szent-Györgi (1893-1986) U. S. biochemist
It
would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to
watch the random dots on untuned television screens.
Marvin
Minsky (1927- ) U. S. computer scientist
All
of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you
understand it, and then it becomes trivial.
Ernest
Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) (1871- 1937) English physicist, born
in New Zealand. Nobel prize for chemistry 1908
Only
one thing is certain--that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it
is also false.
Ancient
paradox
When
you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must
be the truth.
Sherlock
Holmes, The Sign of the Four
We
think in generalities, but we live in details.
Alfred
North Whitehead, W.H. Auden and L. Kronenberger The Viking Book of Aphorisms,
New York: Viking Press, 1966
Reality
is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert
Einstein
An
era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
Arthur
Miller
What
if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely
overpaid for my carpet.
Woody
Allen
[Man]
does not see the real world. The real world is hidden from him by the wall of
imagination.
George
Gurdjieff (1874-1949), Russian mystic, author
All
that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar
Allen Poe
When
the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see reality for what it really
is, infinite.
William
Blake
There
are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your
philosophy.
William
Shakespeare (Hamlet)
Things
are not always what they seem.
Phaedrus
What
Einstein calls a physical quantity is simply a number, and if it does correspond
to a physical reality, that quantity alone yields no suggestion of what that
reality might be... it is a measure not of nature itself, but nature exposed to
our method of detection.
Alan
Wallace, Choosing Reality
We
don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais
Nin
Time
is a philosophical, psychological meaning created by humanity to express in
quantum units the element of change in the universe. Time creates nor does
anything, it is itself created from nothingness.
Put
your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a
pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
That’s
relativity. Einstein
All
truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second it is
violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Schopenhauer
The
open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the
differences.
The
opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a
profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels
Bohr
Opposites
are not contradictory but complementary.
Niels
Bohr
All
extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth
lies between extremes.
Cecil
Science
has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing, and what
is not knowable.
Goethe
...one
of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from
everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters
of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape
from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Einstein
Everything
should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert
Einstein, Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
Scientific
truth is the simplest way to explain observed phenomena. It should be held to be
true until a still simpler explanation is found. Although it is true that the
goal of science to discover rules which permit the association and foretelling
of facts, this is not its only aim. It also seeks to reduce the connections
discovered to the smallest possible number of mutually independent conceptual
elements. It is this striving after the rational unification of the manifold
that it encounters its greatest success, even though it is precisely this
attempt which causes it to run the greatest risk of falling prey to illusion.
But whoever has undergone the intense experience of successful advances made in
this domain is moved by profound reverence for the rationality made manifest in
existence. ...This attitude, however, appears to me to be religious, in the
highest sense of the word. And so it seems to me that science not only purifies
the religious impulse of the dross of anthropomorphism but also contributes to a
religious spiritiualization of our understanding of life.
Albert Einstein, The
World as I See it,1934
A
scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work
the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same
nature.
Jules
Henri Poincaré, (1854-1912) In N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh
NC:Rome Press Inc., 1988.
As
for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but
not explained.
Arthur
Cayley, In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1956.
Most
of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the
general public. This is because these arts can be experienced by some one or
more of our senses. Such is not true of the art of mathematics; this art can be
appreciated only by mathematicians, and to become a mathematician requires a
long period of intensive training. The community of mathematicians is similar to
an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained
by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.
Cornelius
Lanczos, In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Squared, Boston: Prindle, Weber and
Schmidt, 1972.
God
exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot
prove it.
Andre
Weil, (1906 -?) In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Adieu, Boston: Prindle, Weber
and Schmidt, 1977.
In
mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Johann
von Neumann, (1903 - 1957) In G. Zukav The Dancing Wu Li Masters.
Mathematics
is the art of giving the same name to different things.
Jules
Henri Poincaré, (1854-1912) [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of
giving different names to the same thing].
One
of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our
classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem
that is discussed. This gives students the idea that there is a book somewhere
with all the right answers to all of the interesting questions, and that
teachers know those answers. And if one could get hold of the book, one would
have everything settled. That's so unlike the true nature of mathematics.
Leon
Henkin, L.A. Steen and D.J. Albers, Teaching Teachers, Teaching Students,
Boston: Birkhäuser, 1981, p89.
If
God speaks to man, he undoubtedly uses the language of mathematics.
Henri
Poincare
How
can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought
independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?
Albert
Einstein
Can
human reason without experience discover by pure thinking properties of real
things?
Albert
Einstein
Mathematicians
do not study objects, but relations between objects. Thus, they are free to
replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged.
Content to them is irrelevant: they are interested in form only.
Jules
Henri Poincaré, (1854-1912)
So
far the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far
as they are certain, they are not about reality.
Albert
Einstein
What
do you care what other people think?
Richard
Feynman
These
thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all.
A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward.
Albert
Einstein, (1879-1955) In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Adieu, Boston: Prindle,
Weber and Schmidt, 1977.
We
speak, not only to tell others what we think, but to tell ourselves what we
think.
J.
Hughlings Jackson, Hughlings Jackson on Aphasia and Kindred Affections of Speech
(1915) quoted by Daniel C. Dennett in Consciousness Explained (1991)
You've
got to find some way of saying it without saying it.
Duke
Ellington
The
first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next, good sense, the third, good
humor, and the fourth, wit.
Sir
William Temple
Good
communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep
after.
Anne
Morrow Lindbergh
The
most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Peter
F. Drucker.
Never
express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Niels
Bohr
The
right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly
timed pause.
Mark
Twain
Nothing
is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.
Freeman
Teague, Jr.
Home
is not where you live, but where they understand you.
Christian
Morgenstern
If
you cannot convince them, confuse them.
Harry
S Truman
When
a person with experience meets a person with money, the person with experience
will get the money. And the person with the money will get some experience.
Leonard
Lauder
If
two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the
thinking.
Lyndon
Baines Johnson
If
everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.
General
George S. Patton
Whenever
you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark
Twain
Most
people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives
a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar
Wilde
The
opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
Dr.
Robert Anthony (Self Help Author)
A
person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.
When
you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn
something.
Jared
Sparks (1789-1866)
What's
in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
Juliet/William
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet(Act II, scene ii),
We
worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone
today.
Stacia
Tauscher
Awaken
people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there
just a spark.
Anatole
France
The
whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of
young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole
France,_The Crime of Sylvestyre Bonnard_
I
don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please
everyone.
Bill
Cosby
Wise
men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say
something.
Plato
I
have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be
wise.
Baron
de Montesquieu, Pensees diverses
There
are two rules for success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know.
A
society cannot be both ignorant and free.
Thomas
Jefferson
Words
differently arranged have a different meaning and meanings differently arranged
have a different effect.
Blaise
Pascal, (1623-1662) W. H. Auden and L. Kronenberger (eds.) The Viking Book of
Aphorisms, New York: Viking Press, 1966.
I
am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Marcus
T. Cicero
When
we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Joseph-Louis
LaGrange
You
may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a "realist," he is
preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed of doing.
Sydney
Harris
Never
apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
Benjamin
Disraeli
Cynicism
is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian
Hellman
Everybody
lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
Nick
Diamos
A
lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Edgar
J. Mohn
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