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1 Open minded [back to top]
• "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." —Thomas Watson
• "Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." —Pierre Pachet
• A belief that stops search is dangerous indeed. —
• A good listener is usually thinking about something else. —Kin Hubbard
• A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. —William James
• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. —Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author
• Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist. —David Ben-Gurion, Israeli leader
• Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. —Andre Gidé, novelist and critic
• Don’t be in the know, be in the mystery. —
• Don’t just think about yourself, but keep an eye on the thread of the universe which runs through yourself and all things. —RalphWaldo Emerson (1803–1882)
• He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated. —Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)
• I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. —Winston Churchill
• I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything. —T(homas) H(enry) Huxley (1825–1895)
• I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. —Clarence Darrow
• I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. —Wilson Mizner
• If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. —John StuartMill (1806–1873)
• If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. —Albert Einstein, physicist
• If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. —Rene Descartes, philosopher
• It's not what they know for sure, but what they know for sure that just ain't so that's bothersome. —
• Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places. —
• My dear Kepler, what do you say to the leading philosophers here to whom I have offered a thousand times of my own accord to show my studies, but who, with the lazy obstinacy of a serpent who has eaten his fill, have never consented to look at the planets, or moon, or telescope? Just as serpents close their eyes, so do men close their eyes to the light of truth. —Galileo Galilei, 1630
• No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew. —Albert Einstein, physicist
• Not only does God play dice with the Universe. He sometimes throws the dice where you cannot find them. —Stephen Hawking, physicist
• Once the mind is expanded to the dimensions of a new idea, it never returns to its original size. —
• Psychosclerosis (hardening of the intellect) and "neophobia" (fear of new ideas) are at epidemic levels and they always have been. —
• Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
• That is the precondition for real learning - to realize that you don't know anything. —Socrates
• The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. —Hungarian proverb
• The mind is like a parachute, it functions only when open. —
• The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. —Albert Einstein, physicist
• The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. —John F. Kennedy, U.S. president
• They know enough who know how to learn. —Henry Adams
• TRUTH> A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. —
• We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. —John StuartMill (1806–1873)
• We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed. —Charles Caleb Colton
• When I grow up, I want to be a little boy. —Joseph Heller, novelist
• When in doubt, take it as a compliment. —Angie Lyman
• You cannot exclude the explanation you have not considered. —
• You cannot exclude the explanation you have not considered. —
• Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. —Niels Bohr, physicist
2 Change, willingness to [back to top]
• “The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.” —R.D. Laing
• A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment. —Willis Player
• A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. Alexander Pope (1688–1744) There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
• All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." —Arthur Schopenhauer (1778-1860)
• Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. —Laurence J. Peter
• Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. —Oscar Wilde
• Creativity is a fluctuation from sclerosed equilibrium. —Dr. Ilya Prigogine
• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. —Howard Aiken
• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. —Tolstoy
• I much prefer a compliment, insincere or not, to sincere criticism. —TitusMaccius Plautus (254–184 B.C.)
• If we don't change direction we will end up where we are going. —
• If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong. —Mo Udal
• If you create light, expect some heat. —Hawaiian Kahuna
• It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage that the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who might gain by the new. Machiavelli —
• It's a good thing the vagina closes and we can't get back in, because people would go clear back into the womb if they could get back into it. —
• It's not enough to rage against the lie...you've got to replace it with the truth. —Bono
• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. —Orson Welles
• Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory, and, when successful, finds none. New and unsuspected phenomena are, however, repeatedly uncovered by scientific research, and radical new theories have again and again been invented by scientists. —Thomas S. Huhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Peer review is actually political review designed to determine whether the work alienates the monopoly. —
• Progress is not by convincing skeptics, but by funerals. —
• The basis of optimism is sheer terror. —Oscar Wilde
• The prime condition of progress is to think the unthinkable. Indeed, all progress depends on the skeptic, the questioner, the person who does not wholly conform. The greatest threat to the progress of medicine is thus enforced conformity. Most doctors (like everyone else) naturally feel comfortable in conformity, and our organizational structures depend on it.–Lloyd Morgan —
• The prime condition of progress is to think the unthinkable. Indeed, all progress depends on the skeptic, the questioner, the person who does not wholly conform. The greatest threat to the progress of medicine is thus enforced conformity. Most doctors (like everyone else) naturally feel comfortable in conformity, and our organizational structures depend on it. —Lloyd Morgan
• The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change, until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. —Howard Laing
• The secrets of the universe are discovered when you break things. —Game Players Blog
• This is the kind of phenomena I wouldn't believe, even if it were true. —Anonymous to Margaret Mead
• We must expand our zones of comfort —
• We name what we observe and create stories. —Robert Lanza
• We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed. —Charles Caleb Colton
• We will end up where we are going if we don't change directions. —Chinese proverb, 6th Century
• We will end up where we are going if we don't change directions. —Chinese proverb, 6th Century
• What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? —Vincent van Gogh
• What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? —Vincent van Gogh
• When men smile and agree, progress weeps. —RT Morris
• Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. —Mark Twain
• You either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety. —Abraham Maslow
3 Doing good [back to top]
• “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. —Emily Dickinson, poet
• Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest. —Mark Twain
• And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. —Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180)
• Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built. —James Allen (1864–1912)
• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. —Plato
• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank, author, The Diary of Anne Frank
• 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 sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. —Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727)
• I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. —Stephen Greliet (1773–1855)
• If suffer we must, let’s suffer on the heights. —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
• If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. —Alan Simpson, U.S. Senator
• If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
• In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body. —
• Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. —Will Rogers
• Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. —Buddha
• Neitherman nor nation can exist without a sublime idea. —Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821–1881)
• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. —Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader
• The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love." —Red Auerbach
• The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. —RalphWaldo Emerson (1803–1882)
• The only freedom deserving the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs... Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest. —John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
• True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it. —Pliny the Elder (23–79)
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. —Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
• What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. —Albert Pike
• When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad, I feel bad. —Abraham Lincoln
• When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self. —Confucius (551–479 B.C.)
4 Mind behind the universe [back to top]
• And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels. —Walt Whitman, poet, Leaves of Grass
• Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. —Pablo Picasso, artist
• God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. —Paul Valery, poet and critic
• I have been made victorious through terror. —
• If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. —Woody Allen, actor, director, screenwriter, and producer
• Mechanism is not the answer —
• On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind. —Sir William Hamilton (1788–1856)
• The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. —Henry Miller
• They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? —Jeanette Winterson
5 Nutrition [back to top]
• Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth. —French proverb
• If God didn't make it, don't eat it. —Dorothy Gault-McNemee, author, God's Diet
• If the doctors of today do not become the nutritionists of tomorrow, then the nutritionists of today will become the doctors of tomorrow. —
• Many modern processed foods give us too much of too little. —
• —Only man refines and purifies. Nature knows no such thing; never has, never will. —R. Wysong
6 Achievement [back to top]
• ’Tis better to have fought and lost, Than never to have fought at all. —Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)
• A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. —Harvey Mackay
• A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. —Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
• All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. —John StuartMill (1806–1873)
• All kids are gifted. Some just open their packages earlier than others. —Michael Carr
• Always do what you are afraid to do. —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
• Do the little things well now. In time great things will be presented to you. —Persian proverb
• Don't believe there's plenty of time for everything. There isn't. —Lillian Hellman, playwright
• Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. —
• Every artist was first an amateur. —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
• Every great achievement is preceded by a period of fanatical dedication. —Jim Cathcart
• Every great achievement is preceded by a period of fanatical dedication. —Jim Cathcart
• Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
• Figure out what sucks. Don't do that. —Agency.com motto
• Great men never feel great; small men never feel small. —Chinese proverb
• Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too —Joseph Storey
• Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too. —Joseph Storey
• I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing. —Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
• 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 (1817–1862)
• I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have. —Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
• If I had my life to live over again, I'd live over a saloon. —W.C. Fields, actor and comedian
• If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. —Buddhist proverb
• If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work? —
• It is never too late to be what you might have been —
• It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. —Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
• Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been. I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell. —Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)
• MOTIVATION> Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now. —
• No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday. —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
• Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. —Friedrich Hegel
• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
• Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. —Bruce Barton, advertising executive
• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. —Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915)
• Only those who risk going too far will ever know how far they can go. —
• Show, don’t tell. —Henry James (1843–1916)
• So little done, so much to do. —Cecil John Rhodes (1853–1902)
• The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. —Linus Pauling
• The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. —James Allen, author, As a Man Thinketh
• The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and that we miss it, but that our aim is too low and we reach it —
• The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds. —Voltaire (1694–1778)
• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. —Mark Twain (1835–1910)
• This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good. What I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. —Bob Tupes
• Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. —Benjamin Franklin
• Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. —Benjamin Franklin
• We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things. —Herb Kelleher, founder, Southwest Airlines
• When you pray, move your feet. —African proverb
• You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. —Wayne Gretzky, hockey player
7 Money [back to top]
• “Marketing is the misuse and overuse of words and images until they lose all meaning.” —R. Wysong
• OPTIMISM> Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back. —
• To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together. —Bette Davis, actress, The Lonely Life
8 Perseverance [back to top]
• All morning I worked on the proof of one of my poems, and took out a comma; in the afternoon I put it back. —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
• Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. —Alexander Graham Bell
• ERROR> If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. —
• Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. —Will Rogers
• Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success. —Samuel Goldwyn, Movie Producer and King of Malapropisms
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. —Thomas Alva Edison, inventor
• If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time. —Linda Ellerbee, TV journalist
• Inspiration comes from working everyday. —Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821–1867)
• It is easy to finish things. Nothing is simpler. Never does one lie so cleverly as then. —Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901)
• MOTIVATION> The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. —
• Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. —
• Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. —T(homas) H(enry) Huxley (1825–1895)
• Success is not final, failure it not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. —Winston Churchill
9 Death [back to top]
• DEATH> I intend to live forever; so far, so good. —
• If only we could have two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them. —D. H. Lawrence, novelist
• The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
10 Love [back to top]
• Love is how you stay alive, even after you're gone... Death ends a life, not a relationship. —Mitch Albom, author
• The more you notice the love, the miracles and the beauty around you, the more love comes into your life. —Betty Eadie
• There is no greater power than the power of love. It can melt the rocks. —Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, guru
11 Words/Statistics [back to top]
• A room without books is like a body without a soul. —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
• All words are pegs to hang ideas on. —Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)
• If 75% of all accidents happen within 5 miles of home, why not move 10 miles away? —bumper sticker
• If you live to the age of a hundred, you have it made, because very few people die past the age of a hundred. —George Burns, comedian
• It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. —Woody Allen, actor, director, screenwriter, and producer
• It is only by language that we rise above them [the lower animals] —by language, which is the parent, not the child, of thought.
• Language is the autobiography of the human mind. —Max Muller (1823–1900)
• Language is the dress of thought. —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
• Language is the formative organ of thought. —Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835)
• No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. —Henry Brook Adams (1838–1918)
• STATISTIC> Half the people you know are below average. —
• STATISTICS> 42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot. —
• The essence of language lies in the intentional conveyance of ideas from one living being to another through the instrumentality of arbitrary tokens or symbols agreed upon and understood by both as being associated with the particular ideas in question. —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
• Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. —George Carlin, comedian
• We judge and reason with words, just as we calculate with nume6rals; and languages are for ordinary people what algebra is for geometricians. —Étienne Bonnott de Condillac (1715–1780)
• Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. —Confucius (551–479 B.C.)
• Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. —Joseph Joubert (1754–1824)
12 Majority is usually wrong [back to top]
• A lie can be half-way round the world before the truth —
• Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty. —Stanislaw J. Lec, science fiction novelist
• Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in aminority of one. —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
• If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. —James Earl Carter, Jr., U.S. President
• Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdomin minds attentive to their own. —William Cowper (1731–1800)
• Society is now one polish’d horde, Form’d of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. —Lord [George Gordon] Byron (1788–1824)
• When people cease to complain, they cease to think. —Napoleon I [Napoleon Bonaparte] (1769–1821)
13 Difficulty of life [back to top]
• Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. —
• If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. —
• If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. —James A(bram) Garfield (1831–1881)
• In order to profit from your mistakes you must get out and make some. —
• Life saves us from crises by giving us a bigger one to worry about —
• MURPHEYS LAW> When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. —
• My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. —Louis Adamic
• One out of fifty shopping carts has a wobbly wheel, and you'll manage to find it every time. —Lisa Cofield, Debbie Dingerson, and Lea Rush, authors, Mrs. Murphy's Laws
• Redeem thy mis-spent time that’s past; Live this day, as if ’twere thy last. —Thomas Ken (1637–1711)
• That is the road we all have to take —over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity.
• Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. —Napoleon Hill, author
• Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. —Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
14 Listen [back to top]
• Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing. —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
• Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. —John Ruskin (1819–1900)
• But far more numerous was the Herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much. —John Dryden (1631–1700)
• Do you wish people to believe good of you? Don’t speak. —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
• Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. —Socrates (470–399 B.C.)
• Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do. —William Ellery Channing (1780–1842)
• For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stirmen’s blood; I only speak right on. —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
• I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying. —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
• If I had read as much as other men I should have known no more than they. —Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
• Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. —Dionysius the Elder (432–367 B.C.)
• Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf. —Cherokee proverb
• One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. —Will Durant, historian
• One of the reasons that we find so few persons rational and agreeable in conversation is that there is hardly a person who does not think more of what he wants to say than of his answer to what is said. —François, Duc de Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
• The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. —
• The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less. —Zeno of Citium (333–264 B.C.)
• There is but one art, to omit! —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
• They never taste who always drink; They always talk, who never think. —Matthew Prior (1664–1721)
• True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only. —François, Duc de Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
• Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
• When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is that always in the book? —Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799)
• When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people. —Marcus Annaues Seneca (4 B.C. – A.D. 65)
• When roused by passion, I can sometimes find the right words to say, but in ordinary conversation I can find none, none at all. I find conversation unbearable owing to the very fact that I am obliged to speak. —Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
• When you have nothing to say, say nothing. —Charles Caleb Colton (1780–1832)
15 Health and Prevention [back to top]
• By living in a synthetic world, we confuse our origins. —
• I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead. —Jimmy Buffett, singer and songwriter
• If you don't live to get old, you die young. —Cool Papa Bell, musician
• In seeking health we look for an easily identifiable enemy-like a germ, self discipline does not qualify. —
• It lies within your power to prevent practically 100% of all your potential disease. —
• Management of illness rather than the promotion of health is not good medicine. —
• One in thirty died of cancer in 1900. Today, one in five does. —
• Physicians graduating at the turn of the century did not even hear of coronary thrombosis. Today it is responsible for 50% of all deaths. —
• Preservation of health is a duty. Few people seem to be conscious of such a thing as physical morality. —Hippocrates
• Read labels, question, think for yourself- and remember that nature is rarely, if ever, improved upon. —
• Self control is not as limiting as is disease. —
• Stay young-exercise, eat well, work hard, relax, and lie about your age. —
• Take good care of your body, if you don't, where else will you live? Good medicine is helping people die young as old as possible. —
• To stay well is less costly than to get well, to prevent is more rational than to cure. —
16 Change is life [back to top]
• 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, U.S. president
• If you're in a bad situation, don't worry, it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry, it'll change. —John A. Simone
• The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat have gotten to be really good friends. —
• You can’t step into the same river twice. —Heraclitus (535–475 B.C.)
17 Environmental responsibility [back to top]
• Environmental responsibility means: reducing, reusing, recycling, increased efficiency, restoration, world-wide environmental audits, environmental taxes, "green" education of developing economies, prices based upon environmental costs, elimination of debt-based financing, ethics given precedence over demand, and human sustainability given precedence of short term profits —
• Humanity is rapidly growing in size, in its use of resources, and in its production of waste; at rates that are not sustainable.. The longer this continues, the lower the sustainable population and the lower the quality of life that will be possible. D. Meadows. —
• Humans are like every other species in being able to reproduce beyond the carrying capacity of any finite habitat. Humans are like no other species in that they are capable of thinking about this fact and discovering its consequences. W. Catton, Jr. —
• Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. —Buckminster Fuller
• Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money. —Cree Indian saying
• People are saving trees by annoying electrons. —
• The sustainable state would make fewer demands on our environmental resources, but much greater demands on our moral resources. —Herman Daly
• There is only one evident "master plan" in operation today, that is to consume as much as we can as quickly as possible until there is nothing left to consume. —
• We can't save any of these problems, we can only solve all of them. We can't save ourselves, we can only save everyone. —John Enright
• We have an addiction to growth, deadlines and profits, to the extent that these processes have taken over our lives in ways we cannot control. Addictions cover up for emptiness and sprititual loss, and create focus on a false communion with substitutes for being in the ‘here and now.' This, in turn, leads to dulling routines and increasing incompatibilities with natural harmonies. J. Adams —
18 Conscience [back to top]
• Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage... to listen to his own goodness. —Pablo Casals, cellist
• ETHICS> A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. —
• ETHICS> A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
• In the courtroom of the conscience, a case is always in progress. —Dutch proverb
• Man - a being in search of meaning. —Plato (427–347 B.C.)
• Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. —Lord Acton (1834–1902)
• Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe —the starry heavens above me, and the moral law within me.
19 Being yourself [back to top]
• A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
• It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. —e. e. cummings, poet
20 Children [back to top]
• “I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” —Harry S. Truman
• A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist
• Children need models rather than critics. —Joseph Joubert, moralist
• Having a baby changes everything. —Johnson & Johnson TV commercial
• Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. —Michael Levine, publicist, Lessons from the Halfway Point
• The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe. —Lawrence Kutner, author
• When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. —Rodney Dangerfield, comedian
21 Humility [back to top]
• All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
• Be the center of your universe. Make all of your decisions based on how they affect you. Live every day as if you are the intergalactic emperor. But don't tell anyone. Especially your wife. —Red Green, newspaper columnist
• Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. —Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694–1773)
• Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all. —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
• If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. —Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727)
• If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself. —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
• The graveyards are full of indispensable men. —Charles De Gaulle, French President
• Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
22 Thinking/intelligence [back to top]
• A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again. —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
• How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die —but asleep!
• If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? —T(homas) H(enry) Huxley (1825–1895)
• If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks. —Frederick the Great, German King
• If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do >read the newspaper you are misinformed. —Mark Twain
• Ignorant sincerity is a daily spectacle —
• It is the mark of intelligence to live with conscious intent rather than on unconscious autopilot —
• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
• Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them. —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
• One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
• Some people read because they are too lazy to think. —Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799)
• That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
• The Lord gave us two ends-one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most. —Ann Landers, advice columnist
• There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions. —Sir John William Lubbock, 3rd Baronet (1803–1865)
• Vague forms of speech have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard words mistaken for deep learning, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but a hindrance to true knowledge. —John Locke (1632–1704)
• Wear the old coat and buy the new book. —Austin Phelps (1820–1890)
23 Opinion, no right to [back to top]
• I have got no further than this: Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
• the fact that an opinion has been widely held doesn't mean that it's not utterly absurd. Bertrand Russell. —
• The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
• The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. —Hubert H. Humphrey, U.S. Senator and Vice President
24 Long view/extrapolation [back to top]
• Doing the right thing requires reflection and a sustained conscious effort —
• First aid management and ten o'clock deadlines stifle internally driven, big picture intiative and creativity, reinforce the status quo, and drive out the long range smart things —
• In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. —Iroquois Great Law
• Sow with ignorance, reap with tears. —
• The unintelligent are fixated on short cycles, the intelligent have their eyes on the horizon. —
• Thinking means to create a future using conscious intent, in contrast to the unconscious autopilot reflexes of thinking and acting that get us by day-to-day. —
• "We all continue to worship short term economic health as our ‘deity in use' —J. D. Adams
Western society is characterized as holding a short term, impatient, greedy, cynical, and superficial outlook.""" —J. D. Adams
• We don't shift our consciousnesses; we cling to the familiar and try harder and harder to make our failures work. —
• We must continually ask ourselves, "Would it be right if everyone did it?" —
25 God [back to top]
• A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The girl replied, 'I'm drawing God.' The teacher paused and said, 'But no one knows what God looks like.' Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, 'They will in a minute.' —
• Beyond any reasonable doubt, we each share the ancient name of God in our bodies in the most intimate way imaginable. Each fiber of muscle, each crystal of bone, the tears that we shed-all are God. —Gregg Braden, spiritual philosopher
• God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun. —R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor and architect
• There is no God but reality. —
• Until we know that God lives in us and we can see him there, a great poverty we suffer. —Rabia
• What’s a man’s first duty? The answer’s brief: To be himself. —Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828–1906)
26 Happiness [back to top]
• A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. —Maya Angelou, poet
• Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything and everyone you have right now, and then, somehow got everything back again. —Kobi Yamada
• Not the owner of many possessions will you be right to call happy: he more rightly deserves the name of happy who knows how to use the gods’ gifts wisely and to put up with rough poverty, and who fears dishonor more than death. —Horace(65–8 B.C.)
• One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness —simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.
27 Free will [back to top]
• To have a choice at all is to be free-even when the choice is between two terrible things. —Orson Scott Card, science fiction author, The Working Saga
28 Experience [back to top]
• A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. —Robert Heinlein, science fiction author
• A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. —Jeremy Collier (1650–1726)
• A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. —Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616)
• At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
• Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses; we read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author. —John Keats (1795–1821)
• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. —Albert Schweitzer
• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. —Henry James (1843–1916)
• Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it —Steven Wright
• EXPERIENCE> Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. —
• Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement —
• If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us! —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
• We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. —Samuel Smiles (1812–1904)
• When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel. —Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)
29 Oneness [back to top]
• When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. —John Muir, naturalist
• "Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them." —Rita Levi Montalcini (at 100)
30 Adversity is good [back to top]
• A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
• Adversity introduces you to yourself —
• Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it. —Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)
• Life is just one damned thing after another. —Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915)
• My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
• Tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune. —Lois McMaster Bujold, science fiction author, Shards of Honor
• The difference between greatness and mediocrity is how an individual views a mistake. —Nelson Boswell
• The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. —Edward John Phelps (1822–1900)
• The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. —M. Scott Peck, psychologist
• To escape criticism —say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
• You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, —sayeth Rahm
31 Work [back to top]
• “I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.” —Rita Mae Brown, playwright
• Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
• If you are not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. —Vince Lombardi
• When you love what you do, you're alive. —Jobs.com
32 Marriage [back to top]
• Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. —Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress
• When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life. —Richard Lewis, comedian and actor
33 Truth [back to top]
• “Live and make decisions based on reality, not hopes and dreams; If you don’t like your reality, change it, not your hopes and dreams.” —R. Wysong
• A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose. —Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781)
• Beauty is truth, truth beauty, —that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
• If we can get to the truth, we can change anything. —Anthony Robbins
• If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? – Dogen Richard Lewis, comedian and actor —
• If you create light expect some heat. —Hawaiian Kahuna.
• Our work is to present things that are as they are. —Frederick the Great [Frederick II] (1712–1786)
• Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it, and above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. —Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911)
• The formula ‘Two and two makes five’ is not without its attractions. —Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821–1881)
• The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth. —Yuan-Sou
34 Government [back to top]
• A penny saved is a government oversight. —
• Equality means equal opportunity, not equal results. —
• Europe, is almost certainly a goner. The future, if the West has one, belongs to ("evil") America alone-with maybe its cousins in brave Australia. But America can still survive, prosper, and defend its freedom only if it continues to believe in itself, in the sturdier virtues of self-reliance (not government), in the centrality of family, and in the conviction that ethics, intelligence, and rationality is really the world's last best hope. —Steyn
• I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. —
• LEGAL> 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. —
• Liberal paternalism seeks to bring us the nanny state —
• One morning, the husband returns the boat to their lakeside cottage after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap. Although not familiar with the lake, the wife decides to take the boat out. She motors out a short distance, anchors, puts her feet up, and begins to read her book. The peace and solitude are magnificent. Along comes a Fish and Game Warden in his boat. He pulls up alongside the woman and says, "Good morning, Ma'am. What are you doing?" "Reading a book," she replies, (thinking, "Isn't that obvious?") You're in a Restricted Fishing Area," he informs her. "I'm sorry, officer, but I'm not fishing. I'm reading." Yes, but I see you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment. I'll have to take you in and write you up." "If you do that, I'll have to charge you with sexual assault, "says the woman. "But I haven't even touched you," says the Game Warden. "That's true, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment." "Have a nice day ma'am," and he left. —
• The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. —Thomas Jefferson.
• The future belongs to the fecund and the confident. And the Islamists are both, while the West - wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and self-indulgence, and a childlessness that consigns it to oblivion - is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization. —
• The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. —William H. Borah
• There is nothing so sacred as facts. —
• Those who really run the USA must hide somewhere, far from this moromic lot and maddening circus —
• Unfortunately our fate lies in the hands of ignorant voters. Today, I heard several people on the street interviewed with questions. One thought McCain was going to be Obama's vice president. None knew what the big three are (automakers). None could name one right in the Bill of Rights. Some did not know what the Constitution was. All voted for Obama but could not give a rational reason why. —
• What can be asserted without evidence, can also be rejected without evidence. —Christopher Hitchens
35 Materialism [back to top]
• Life should be about being, not doing and having. —
• Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise. —William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
36 Obesity [back to top]
37 Aging [back to top]
• Aging: Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it. —
• Ah, being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable. —
• First you forget names, then you forget faces. Then you forget to pull up your zipper. It's worse when you forget to pull it down. —
• One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it is such a nice change from being young. —
• The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for. —
• There's always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it. For example I am sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt. —
• When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra. —
• You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks. —
38 38. History [back to top]
• Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. —Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress
• If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. —Baruch de Spinoza (1632–1677)
• Man is the only animal that has the intelligence to keep a written record of his history, yet is not smart enough to learn from it. —Carl Jung
• Study the past, if you would divine the future. —Confucius (551–479 B.C.)
• We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears! —John Ruskin (1819–1900)
• What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. —Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818–1885)
39 Economics/money [back to top]
• “Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent it. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.” —Thomas Edison
• A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. —Thoreau
40 Religion [back to top]
• One's religion is their day to day deity in use, not the beliefs and faith their words espouse —
• 41 Belief, Faith, Opinion [back to top]
• From a psychological perspective, it is true that humans, as conscious conceptual beings, are believing entities. Psychological health is predicated on belief in one's self and in one's capacity to use one's mind to know truth, to reason, to make accurate and beneficial judgments, etc. It is also true that man, as a social being, wants and needs to believe in something larger than himself. These beliefs and abilities are the basis of survival, mental health, community, human advancement of all kinds, and personal happiness and fulfillment. The object of man's belief/faith in something larger than himself does not however have to be based on myth. It should also not be based on the fear caused through learned ignorance. It should rather be based on a set of universal ethical principles that are beneficial to all. [back to top]
• People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like. —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
• We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe. —Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)
42 Medicine [back to top]
• “…one could expect to be bled, leeched, cupped, blistered, amputated, sweated, trepanned, scourged, and purged and flayed to the fare-thee-well." —Courter, Gay
• It all started in the Salerno School of Medicine that flourished around 1000 A.D. Its basic tenets were borrowed from the Greek concept of Four Elements which stated that everything in the universe was made up of four basic elements: fire, air, water, and earth. To the scholars of that period, this made a lot of sense. Therefore, they concluded that the body contained four corresponding "humors:" blood (fire), phlegm (earth), black bile (water) and yellow bile (air). —
• Modern medicine has as its goal, the survival of the sickest —
43 Humor [back to top]
• COURAGE> What happens if you get scared half to death twice? —
• How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink? —
• The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. —Nicolas-Sébastien Chamfort (1741–1794)
44 Paranormal [back to top]
• Every time we move we prove psychokinesis since it is thought that causes the movement —R. Wysong
• PSYCHIC> All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand. —
• PSYCHIC> I almost had a psychic girlfriend, but she left me before we met. —
• PSYCHIC> Why do psychics have to ask you for your name? —
45 Science [back to top]
• GENETICS> The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. —
• OK, so what's the speed of dark? —
• Scientific progress depends upon exposing and explaining anomalies, not ignoring them —R. Wysong
• To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. —
46 Reason [back to top]
47 Courage [back to top]
• One man with courage is a majority. —Andrew Jackson
48 Animals [back to top]
• All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. —Samuel Butler
• Animals are such agreeable friends --they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. —George Elliot
• If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very very few people. —James Thurber
• I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. —Hippolyte Taine
• Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too. —Samuel Butler
• The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. —Mahatma Gandhi
• When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. —Montaigne
• You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!' —Dave Barry
49 Creation [back to top]
• And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels. —Walt Whitman
• Nothing can be created out of nothing. —Lucretius [Titus Lucretius Carus] (99–55 B.C.)
50 Statistics [back to top]
51 Education [back to top]
• ’Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined. —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
• “The person who doesn’t read has no advantage over the person who can’t.” —Mark Twain
• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. —Mark Twain (1835–1910)
52 Hypocrisy [back to top]
• Every man has three characters —that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
• For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone. —John Milton (1608–1674)
• I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time. —Mark Twain (1835–1910)
53 Nature [back to top]
• I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. —Alfred Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918)
55 Extrapolation [back to top]
• A firefly is to lightning as biological change is to evolution —
• Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance of imaginary similarity for real identity. —Viscount [Henry John Temple] Palmerston (1784–1865)
• That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. —Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746)
55 Evolution [back to top]
• “The molecular clock is notoriously unreliable, and it doesn’t get more reliable because you dissociate the trees from their source data. The real problem with the molecular clock is that it’s interpreted as observational data, when in fact it’s a simulation. Not only that, it’s a simulation based on models know to be inaccurate, with the vain hope that adding ever more calibration points will compensate for the inaccuracy of the model.” —Mike Noren, Swedish Museum of Natural history (The Scientist 3-09-16)
• I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can’t help it. I was born sneering. —SirW(illiam) S(chwenk) Gilbert (1836–1911)
56 Genius [back to top]
• “Genius is the force of will to make all the mistakes necessary, and defeat every set back until success happens.” —R. Wysong
• A genius! For thirty-seven years I’ve practiced fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius! —Pablo Sarasate (y Navascués) (1844–1908)
• Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. —Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799)
• Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. —Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton (1831–1891)
• There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
57 Philosophy [back to top]
• Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
58 Optimism [back to top]
• Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars. —Frederick Langbridge (1849–1923)
59 Immortality [back to top]
• Surely God would not have created such a being as man. . . to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
• The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn (with a brief sojourn at that) which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host. —Marcus Annaues Seneca (4 B.C. – A.D. 65)
60 Nay Say [back to top]
• It’s a classic. . . something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. —Mark Twain (1835–1910)
• The critic’s symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else’s dung, otherwise he could not hatch it. —Mark Twain (1835–1910)
• There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stands as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey. —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
61 Conformity [back to top]
• When everyone begins to agree, the vote is unanimous, and status quo is secured hide your wallet and run for your life. —R. Wysong
62 Responsibility [back to top]
• Each man is the architect of his own fate. —Appius Claudius Caecus (340–273 B.C.)
• Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. —Beatrix Potter, children’s novelist
63 Time [back to top]
• Every time we look at a star we are viewing the past since the photon striking our eyes is millions of years old —R. Wysong
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