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An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents… What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning. - Max Planck
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come and sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. - C.G. Jung Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. ~ Edward Eggleston A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. - Thomas A. Kempis It may make a difference
to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.- James
Freeman Clarke Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in many places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto. - Gautama Buddha He who puts up with insult invites injury. - English Proverb He that shows passion tells his enemy where he is weak. - Proverb A mole can undermine the strongest rampart. - Chinese Saying Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation. - George Bernard Shaw Parents’ affection is best shown by their teaching their children industry and self-denial. - Burmese Saying Our grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle In response to FOX News efforts to link devastating wildfires in California to Al Qaeda, Jon Stewart of the Daily Show suggested that "perhaps Al Qaeda is trying to infiltrate a cable news channel and staff it with morons." He that marrieth for love has good nights and bad days. - French Proverb You can get all A's and still flunk life. - Marion Wright Edelman Wishing, of all employements, is the worst. - Edward Young For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson He that sips of many arts, drinks of none. - Fuller Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some one talent.—Yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively.—Strive to get clear notions about all,—Give up no science entirely, for all science is one. - Seneca I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. - Emo Philips, as quoted in Simply Enough To comprehend a man's life it is necessary to know not merely what he does, but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best. - John Hall Gladstone I've told you that I take an interest in pretty much everything, and don't mean to fence out any human interests from the private grounds of my intelligence. Then, again, there is a subject, perhaps I may say there is more than one, that I want to exhaust, to know to the very bottom. And besides, of course I must have my literary harem, my pare aux cerfs, where my favorites await my moments of leisure and pleasure,—• my scarce and precious editions, my luxurious typographical masterpieces; my Delilahs, that take my head in their lap: the pleasant story-tellers and the like; the books I love because they are fair to look upon, prized by collectors, endeared by old associations, secret treasures that nobody else knows anything about; books, in short, that I like for insufficient reasons it may be, but peremptorily, and mean to like and to love and to cherish till death us do part. - Oliver Wendell Holmes There is a pleasure in reading; a finer pleasure in reading and marking passages, which strike us with their power of thought or felicity of style ; the finest pleasure consists in re-reading these marked passages. This process condenses an author into a few passages, it may be a few sentences. - Frank Carr Cheap and excellent translations now give us access to all the supreme literatures of ancient Greece and Rome; and to know nothing of them is to know nothing of the intellectual ancestry of our own minds.- Owen Meredith Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other: it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age! - Charles Caleb Colton By going a few minutes sooner or later, by stopping to speak with a friend, on the corner, by meeting this man or that, or by turning this street instead of the other, we may let slip some impending evil, by which the whole current of our lives would have been changed. There is no possible solution in the dark enigma, but the one word, “Providence." ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The abilities of man must fall short on one side or other, like too scanty a blanket when you are a-bed ; if you pull it upon your shoulders, you leave your feet bare; if you thrust it down upon your feet, your shoulders are uncovered. ~ Sir William Temple He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow. ~ Ovid People have recurrent dreams because they haven't gotten the message. - Naomi Eppel At midday either take a short nap or none at all. - Maxim of the College of Salerno Let the greatest order regulate the transactions of your life. - John McDonough Many so-called bright men are drawing small salaries, because they never felt the necessity of settling down to learn any one thing well - Adelaide Proctor Methods are the masters of masters. - Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand Deprive yourself on nothing necessary for your comfort, but live in an honorable simplicity and frugality. - John McDonough Never spend but to produce. ~ John McDonough Study
in the course of your life to do the greatest amount of good. -
John McDonough Each shall follow with cheerfulness the profession he best understands. - Horace The robber passes by the man whose appearance bespeaks poverty. - Seneca It is better to keep children to their duty by a sense of honor, and by kindness, than by fear and punishment. - Terence True religion is a life unfolded within, not something forced on us from without. - William Ellery Channing The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell If a man does not make new acquaintances as he passes through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. - Samuel Johnson The gods use us mortals as footballs. - Plautus Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. - Henry David Thoreau. Check out more cool quotes at Sacred Medicine As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it...you cannot do everything. - Phillip Brooks In all the controversies over what the causes of diversities might be, no one seem to have paid much attention to the factor in the environment that has the most obvious effect on any organism: food. - Michael Crawford & David Marsh, The Driving Force: Food in Evolution and the Future Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. - Alan Coren Dost thou love Life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty. - Friedrich Nietzsche (from Humanism by Joe) God is on everyone's side … and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies. - Jean Anouilh There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley Life transforming ideas have always come to me through books. - Oliver Wendall Holmes
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Alan Poe (and he wrote this wise old saying without ever seeing The Matrix) Beware of little expenses: a small leak will sink a great ship. ~ Benjamin Franklin The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. ~ Michel de Montaigne I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. - Fran Lebowitz After a war, a hero is just a man with one leg. - Anonymous from Anti War Quotes Remember as far as anyone knows, we're a nice normal family. - Homer Simpson We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions. - Richard Steele Our days on earth are as a shadow. - Chronicles 24:15 What you would seem to be, be really. - Benjamin Franklin History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill Right now I have enough money to last me the rest of my life--unless I buy something. - Jackie Mason It is the danger which is least expected that soonest comes to us. - Voltaire The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. - Plato
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