Quotes
by great thinkers including
Hemingway, Newton, Einstein,
George Bernard Shaw, Albert Schweitzer, Thomas Jefferson, Emerson,
Roosevelt,
Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein, Bergson, Helen
Keller,
Confucius, Thoreau, Ayn Rand, Mark Twain, Sartre. Compiled, January
2002,
by Reza Ganjavi - with thanks to Dr. James Christian, Josephson
Institute
of Ethics: www.josephsoninstitute.org, and other
sources.
Hastiness
and superficiality are the
psychic disease of the 20th century. — Alexander Solzhenitzyn,
20th-century Nobel Prize-winning Russian novelist
The very essence of change demands coming into contact with the
unknown.F.M. Alexander
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. — Unknown
Science ultimately proves itself - it never lies. Dr. KA
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. — Lucy Larcom
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great. — Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), 19th-century
American humorist, author and journalist
Liberty means responsibility. That’s why most men dread it.
— George Bernard Shaw, 19th/20th-century Anglo-Irish dramatist
and wit
Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral, forty-eight
percent indignation, and fifty percent envy. — Vittorio De Sica,
20th-century Italian filmmaker
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few
wants. — Epicurus
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who
can do nothing for him. — Goethe, 18th/19th-century German poet,
novelist, playwright and philosopher
[Written about 1637 as he was going blind]: These heavens, this earth,
which by wonderful observation I had enlarged a thousand times. ..are
henceforth dwindled into the narrow space which I myself occupy.
— Galileo
A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.
— Kenneth Tynan, 20th-century English art historian and critic
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a
second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the
society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no
sensibilities left but for sin and suffering. — Thomas Jefferson,
18th-century American Founding Father, early 19th century U.S.
president (letter to Samuel Kercheval, 1816)
A kind word is like a spring day. — Russian proverb
A leader is a dealer in hope. — Napoleon Bonaparte, 19th-century French
general and emperor
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of
plants and animals as that of his fellow men. — Albert Schweitzer
A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his past and future
actions or motives, and of approving or disapproving of them. —
Charles Darwin
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is
personally responsible for his society. — Thomas Jefferson,
18th-century American Founding Father, early 19th century U.S.
president (letter to George Hammond, 1792)
A philosophic system is an integrated view of existence. As a human
being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy.
Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious,
rational, disciplined process of thought. ..or let your subconscious
accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions. — Ayn Rand)
A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his
conscience longer than he does with his constituents. — Melvin R.
Laird, 20th-century American secretary of defense
"Education is the kindling of a flame not the filling of a vessel."
Socrates
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It is possible that most people in the world received only one or 2%
the amount of ascorbic acid (vitamin c) that would keep them in the
best of health.- Linus Pauling Ph.D.
Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value
increases twice as fast as one's investment. Kevin Kelly
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a
month’s study of books. Chinese proverb
Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I will move the
entire earth. Archimedes.
It is much easier to ride the horse in the direction it's going.
Abraham Lincoln
Now, here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart
that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. --
from the Little Prince
Out of abundance he took abundance and still abundance remained. The
Upanishads.
It is easier to stay out than get out. -MARK TWAIN
Technical is great but soulful is better. Matt Jones
"We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like
dust." Jalal-al-Din Rumi
Worry is like a rocking chair, it keeps you busy but never gets you
anywhere.
Sticks and stones, may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
(Relayed by: Chris Sawyer)
“The almighty dollar is the new god of America:” Michael Savage.
Re “relationship”: Patty L: it’s either heaven sent or not.
nothin like punching that keyboard when there is no semblance of a real
life calling you away anyway. Cattoes
those who drive such big cars either have a tiny brain or a tiny penis.
S
mom: only thing more beautiful than a rose is the laughter of children
“Must be present to win”. (bumper sticker in santa cruz).
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to
give validity to his convictions in political affairs. Albert eistein
“Gotto love the goove” Phil Maynes.
Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but
in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. Friedrich
Nietzsche.
God does not give a lick of an ice cream cone without wanting you to
have the whole cone. Marshall Thurber
A promise made is a debt unpaid. — Robert W. Service (inThe Cremation
of Sam McGee, 1907
A regard for reputation and the judgment of the world may sometimes be
felt where conscience is dormant. — Thomas Jefferson,
18th-century American Founding Father, early 19th century U.S.
president (letter to Edward Livingston, 1825)
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but
cannot receive great ones. — G.K. Chesterton, 19th-century
English essayist and poet
A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody. — Unknown
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. — Emerson
All progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw,
19th/20th-century Anglo-Irish dramatist and wit
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do
nothing. — Edmund Burke, 18th-century English political
philosopher
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. — Lord
Byron, 19th-century English poet
An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very
few people can swallow it. — Emily Post, 20th-century American
etiquette advisor and author
Art is a jealous mistress. — Emerson
Harche pish ayad khosh ayad - whatever comes up, comes in goodness (is
welcome). Persian saying
"I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed
us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their
use."
--Galileo Galilei
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. — G.K.
Chesterton, 19th-century English essayist and poet
As yet woman is not capable of friendship. But tell me, ye men, who of
you are capable of friendship? — Friedrich Nietzsche
Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good
administration can never save bad policy. — Adlai Stevenson,
20th-century American politician, presidential candidate
Be a philosopher; but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man. —
David Hume
"I
don't pay attention to that [gossip]. In my opinion, it's ignorance.
It's usually not based on fact. ... Every neighborhood has the guy who
you don't see, so you gossip about him. You see those stories about
him, there's the myth that he did this or he did that. People are
crazy!" Michael Jackson
"I don't think people are being as
experimental and innovative enough, I know people can easily say,
`Well, we don't have the Michael Jackson budget.' Wrong, you can be so
creative with almost nothing. And that's usually the best stuff, when
you strip it down to the bare minimum and go inside yourself and
invent." Michael Jackson
I sometimes feel that all my audience wants is noise and excitement. Rachmaninoff
America gave me material security but American could not give me peace of mind. Rachmaninoff
AP:
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President
Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public
about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA
operative. "I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five
of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in
my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of
staff and the president himself." Scott McClellan
Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in
others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.... never
doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the
great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with
kindness.... Your success and happiness lie in you.... The great
enduring realities are love and service.... Resolve to keep happy and
your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
— Helen Keller, 20th-century American Nobel Prize-winning social
activist, public speaker and author
Be patient and calm — for no one can catch fish in anger. —
Herbert Hoover, 20th-century American public servant, U.S. president
Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. — Diana Black
But words are things, and a small drop of ink; Falling like dew, upon a
thought, produces; That which makes thousands, perhaps millions,
think... — Lord Byron, 19th-century English poet (from Canto the
Third
By associating with good and evil persons a man acquires the virtues
and vices which they possess, even as the wind blowing over different
places takes along good and bad odors. — The Panchatantra
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through
experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision
cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. — Helen Keller,
20th-century American social activist, public speaker and author
Character is power. — Booker T. Washington, 19th-century American
educator
Character is that which can do without success. — Ralph Waldo
Emerson, 19th-century American essayist, public philosopher and poet
Character is what you are in the dark. — Unknown
Charity isn’t a good substitute for justice. — Jonathan Kozol,
20th-century American journalist and author
Children need models rather than critics. — Joseph Joubert
Compassion is the basis of morality. — Arnold Schopenhauer, early
19th-century German philosopher
Courage easily finds its own eloquence. — Plautus
Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use. — Ruth Gordon
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copyright: Don Miguel Ruiz
agreement 1 - Be impeccable with your word - Speak with integrity. Say
only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or
to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of
truth and love.
agreement 2 - Don’t take anything personally - Nothing others do
is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own
reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and
actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
agreement 3 - Don’t make assumptions - Find the courage to ask
questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others
as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama.
With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
agreement 4 - Always do your best - Your best is going to change from
moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed
to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will
avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
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Courage is the price life exacts for peace. — Amelia Earhart, 20th-
century American aviator
Cowardice. . . is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the
functioning of the imagination. — Ernest Hemingway, 20th-century
Nobel Prize-winning American novelist
Democracy becomes a government of bullies, tempered by editors. —
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th-century American essayist, public
philosopher and poet
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. — Noam
Chomsky, 20th-century American linguist and political activist
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. — Henry
David Thoreau
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to
govern, but impossible to enslave. — Gen. Omar N. Bradley,
20th-century American military figure
Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty. — John
Ruskin, 19th-century British critic and author
"Dress cute wherever you go, life is too short to blend in." Paris
Hilton
I watched TV - it's such a bad idea - it brings you down.
Angela Jaggi
Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and
determine the purpose and course of our lives. — Ayn Rand,
20th-century Russian/American novelist and philosopher
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice
what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is
a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or
loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
— Janet Malcolm, 20th-century American journalist and author (The
Journalist and the Murderer).
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their
common sense. — Gertrude Stein, 20th-century American writer
Frankness invites frankness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th-century
American essayist, public philosopher and poet
‘In this world I would rather live two days like a tiger, than
two hundred years like a sheep.’ [1800 A. Beatson View of Origin and
Conduct of War with Tippoo Sultaun x. 153]
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot
be friends with anyone else. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 20th-century
American stateswoman, First Lady
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky.
Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is
self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes
with having proved you can meet life. Ann Landers
Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. —
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 19th-century English novelist
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. — Henry David
Thoreau, 19th-century American essayist and nature writer
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them
to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow
strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have
become. — Bishop Westcott
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want
to feel important.... They do not mean to do harm.... They are absorbed
in the endless struggle to think well of themselves. — T.S.
Eliot, Nobel Prize-winning 20th-century Anglo-American poet
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see
them. — Count Leo Tolstoy, 19th-century Nobel Prize-winning
Russian novelist
Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its
own way. — Count Leo Tolstoy, Nobel Prize-winning 19th-century
Russian novelist (from Anna Karenina)
He is poor who does not feel content. — Japanese proverb
He that’s cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the
cheater. — Thomas Fuller
He who has a choice has trouble. — Dutch proverb
Honesty isn’t a policy at all; it’s a state of mind or it isn’t
honesty. — Eugene L’Hote “People
tend to overestimate what can be accomplished in the short run but to
underestimate what can be accomplished in the long run.” Arthur C.
Clarke
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being
unable to sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose
happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. —
Thomas Jefferson, 18th-century American Founding Father, early 19th
century U.S. president (in letter to A. L. C. Destutt de Tracy, 1811)
I long to accomplish some great and noble task, but it is my chief duty
to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. —
Helen Keller, 20th-century American Nobel Prize-winning social
activist, public speaker and author
I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
— Thomas Edison (19th/20th-century American inventor), responding
to a reporter who asked how it felt to fail 2000 times before
successfully inventing the light bulb
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. —
Booker T. Washington, 19th-century American educator
If I have seen farther than other men it is by standing on the
shoulders of giants. — Isaac Newton, 17th-century English
mathematician and physicist
If there is anything 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. — Carl Jung, 20th-century Swiss founder of
analytical psychology
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite
you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man. —
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), 19th-century American humorist, author and
journalist
If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by
argument, rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the
argument goes against you. But if your belief is based on faith, you
will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to
force either in the form of persecution or by stunting the minds of the
young. — Bertrand Russell
If you want to work for world peace, go home and love your families.
— Mother Teresa of Calcutta, 20th-century nun and founder of the
Order of the Missionaries of Charity (Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
speech)
Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein,
20th-century Swiss mathematician, physicist and public philosopher
In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To
be shocking becomes more important — and often more profitable
— than to be civil or creative or truly original. — Al
Gore, 20th-century American politician, vice president of the U.S.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at
heart. — Anne Frank, victim of the mid-20th century Nazi
Holocaust in Europe (from her Diaries
Indifference is the essence of inhumanity. — George Bernard Shaw,
19th/20th century Anglo-Irish dramatist and wit
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. — Chinese
proverb
It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute
opportunity. — Arthur Vandenberg, 20th century American senator
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change. — Charles
Darwin
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals
his character. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 19th-century German
philosopher
It takes a whole village to raise a child. — Ashanti proverb
You come after me and you will lose because I am a survivor. (from
jerry mcguire)
[after some days on a sail boat] “I realized my world was getting
smaller and smaller, reduced to the boat size” Susan De Michiel
"A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part
limited in time and space. They experience themselves, their thoughts,
and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical
delusion of their consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for
us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few
persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this
prison by widening our circle of love and compassion to embrace all
living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Albert Einstein
With small money you can live – it’s in the attitude. Mrs. Kamal
To know the value of your own place you have to go out – after
come back. Everything looks new when you go back – your routine,
the food, the things. Mrs. Kamal
Butterfly’s gotto fly. Mr. Saadatifard told his grandson who said:
let’s catch the butterfly.
If you wait for things to happen as proof they will happen, then I
don't think you are going to hit any home runs investing. Fat Ganesh
Ease promotes control, which is what technique is really
about...Stanley Yates
Why might the brain want to overrule self-interest in the first place?
Colin Camerer, Professor of Business Economics at the California
Institute of Technology, says that it probably evolved that way. If we
always accepted low offers for the sake of tiny gains, we would rapidly
get a reputation as a soft touch. Everybody else would try to bilk us
at every turn. By acting apparently against our interests, we do better
in the long run. Our ancestors were better at surviving if they were
bloody-minded. Professor Camerer explained: “Emotion is
nature’s way of letting people know that if you’re treated
badly you’ll do something about it.”
True bravery is without witness. Fortune cookie.
As an historian, the world's insane condition is not exactly new; but
it gets into our homes and psyches in an intimate way as never
before. I turn on the TV and the floodgates open to idiocy,
stupidity, small mindedness, arrogance, and blindness. None
of
this is new but the impact is intolerable. Dr. Jim Christian
my job is to do my job. Another one of George W. Bush's famous stupid remarks.
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no
concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.
— Dr. Robert Jarvik, 20th-century American heart surgeon
More often than not the winners in options are the writers.
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for
courtesy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th-century
American essayist, public philosopher and poet
Make no little plans! They have no magic to stir men’s blood. — Daniel
Burnham, 19th-century Chicago architect
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. — Buddha
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, 19th-century German philosopher
Most men sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the
proceeds. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the courage of
their convictions. — Coventry Patmore
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. — Ralph Waldo
Emerson (1803-1882
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will
not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will
not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’
has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
— Calvin Coolidge, 20th-century American president
One man with courage makes a majority. — Andrew Jackson, early
19th-century American military hero and U.S. president
One must care about a world one will never see. — Bertrand Russell,
20th-century British mathematician and philosopher
Only as an aesthetic phenomenon is the world justified. — Friedrich
Nietzsche
Optimism is the father that leads to achievement. — Helen Keller,
20th-century American civil rights leader
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by
means of language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human
pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens out onto the
widest vistas. ...No one of us can get along without the far-flashing
beams of light it sends over the world's perspectives. — William
James
Politics are for the moment. An equation is for eternity. — Albert
Einstein
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the
systematic organization of hatreds. — Henry Adams, 19th-century
American historian, memoirist and diplomat
Prejudice is the child of ignorance. — William Hazlitt, early
18th-century English essayist and literary critic
Public virtue is a kind of ghost town into which anyone can move and
declare himself sheriff. — Saul Bellow, Nobel Prize-winning
20th-century American author
Real intelligence enables us to penetrate to the inside of what we are
studying, to reach the very bottom of it, to breathe its spirit, to
feel the rhythm of its soul. — Henri Bergson
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do
the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no
safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring
adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like
free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. —
Helen Keller, 20th-century Nobel Prize-winning, American social
activist, public speaker and author
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. — English proverb
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm. —
Swedish proverb
The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones. — Soren
Kierkegaard, early 19th-century Danish philosopher
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th-century American essayist, public
philosopher and poet
The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with
lying. — Thomas Henry Huxley
The gem cannot be polished without friction. — Chinese proverb
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Running around after the concert a kid told his dad: “I'm trying to do
something”
Dad: “I know you're trying to break your neck”.
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“It's always wise to stop wishing for things long enough to
enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering”.
"Iran is one of those places I have always
wanted to go to in my search
for the ruins of antiquity. I tell people that the U.S. is a
blink in
the eye of history -- now the Persian Empire, that was a culture."
Professor Noreen Grella
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
"evil prevails when good men do nothing" -- Edmund Burke, an Irish
statesman/philosopher of the 18th century.
It’s a handshake with the universe – that’s what babies are. [Jay
Hedjazi about having a baby]
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret
Mead
"Your children are not your children. They are the
sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You
may house their bodies but not their souls, for their
souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot
visit, not even in your dreams." Khalil Gibran
‘From the heart — may it return to the heart! Beethoven, at end of
Missa Solemnis
Weary men walk home to learn in sleep, Forgotten happiness and youth
anew! From Mahler's (boring) Das Lied von der Erde
The presence moment is a powerful green goddess. Johann Goethe
Sweetest sound in the universe is mother’s voice.
I died daily. St. Paul 1 Cor. 15. 31
Prayer are indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a men should
lend a hand. Hippocrates
We want a fund to closely track the market, to have the lowest possible
internal expenses, and to have low turnover. You can always find a
group of [actively managed] funds that have outperformed, but
unfortunately that outperformance does not predict future
outperformance. Low expense and low turnover are much more predictive
of future results. Robert Bingham
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Thoreau
Above all we can not afford not to live in the present. Thoreau
"never allow emotional factors to sway you with regard to any
investment you have
Warren Buffet
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
(Franz Kafka, The Great Wall of China Reflections)
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie —
deliberate, contrived, and dishonest — but the myth —
persistent, persuasive and realistic. — John F. Kennedy,
20th-century American president (from the Yale Commencement address,
1962)
The highest result of education is tolerance. — Helen Keller,
20th-century American Nobel Prize-winning social activist, public
speaker and author
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not
believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. — George
Bernard Shaw, 19th/20th century Anglo-Irish dramatist and wit
The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick,
since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question
one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which
something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to
sadness and depression. — Sigmund Freud
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear — fear of
the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond
everything else is safety.
The only obligation which I have aright to assume is to do at any time
what I think right. — Henry David Thoreau
The perception of beauty is a moral test. — Henry David Thoreau
The proper man understands equity, the small man profits. — Confucius,
ancient Chinese sage
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a
hundred years before he’s born. — William R. Inge
The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what
they reject also. — Thomas Jefferson, 18th-century American
Founding Father, early 19th century U.S. president (Autobiography,
1821)
The words you speak today should be soft and tender ... for tomorrow
you may have to eat them. — Unknown
There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to
treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. — Alfred North
Whitehead
There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers.
...To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even
to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its
dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and truth.
It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically,
but practically. — Henry David Thoreau
There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take
the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition
there. — Indira Gandhi, 20th-century Indian prime minister
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. Sophia Loren
Justice Potter Stewart "the mark of a good judge, good justice, is that
when you're reading their decision, their opinion,
you can't tell if it's written by a man or woman, a liberal or a
conservative, a Muslim, a Jew or a Christian. You just
know you're reading a good judicial decision".
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith
Very good essay. Even better if Icould read it. BrunoG's teacher
I think people should have an intelligence test before they're allowed
to vote. Peter Jenkins
If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was
probably worth it.
it's not what you play sometimes it's what you don't play - joe brown
Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither. Ben
Franklin.
"You could search the whole world over and never find anyone as
deserving of your love as yourself." Buddha
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they
die young. A.W. Piner
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good
weather. — John Ruskin, 19th-century British critic and author
They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing. — Hindu
proverb
This sovereignty of the male is a real usurpation, and destroys that
nearness of rank, not to say equality, which nature has established
between the sexes. — David Hume
Those who pursue an, education but stop short of studying philosophy
are like -.the suitors of Penelope; they found it easier to woo the
maidservants than to marry the mistress. — Aristippos of Cyrene
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical
and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Thomas Edison
To describe happiness is to diminish it. — Henri Stendahl, 19th-century
French novelist
To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of
the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.—
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th-century American essayist, public
philosopher and poet
To protect those who are not able to protect themselves is a duty which
every one owes to society. — Edward Macnaghten
Two things fill my mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe: the starry
heavens above me and the moral law within me. — Immanuel Kant,
18th century Prussian geographer and philosopher
Unshared joy is an unlighted candle. — Spanish proverb
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man
will not himself find peace. — Albert Schweitzer, 20th-century
German Nobel Peace Prize-winning mission doctor and theologian
Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by
which one aims and/or keeps it. — Ayn Rand, 20th-century
Russian/American philosopher and author
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.— Mark Twain
(Samuel Clemens), 19th-century American humorist, author and journalist
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. — Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe, 18th/19th-century German statesman, poet, novelist and
dramatist
"A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a
master in
that science when he has learned that . . . he is going to be a
beginner all
his life."
R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943)
The non-doing of any evil,
the performance of what's skillful,
the cleansing of one's own mind:
this is the teaching
of the Awakened. — Dhp 183
if the president wants to add to this mission, he is going to have to
justify it and this is new for him because up until now the Republican
Congress has given him a blank check with no oversight, no standards,
no conditions," said Pelosi, D-Calif.
“I think a lot of world conflicts were started by cultural
misunderstanding. Someone needs to stir up people's awareness, starting
with the arts, don't you think?” John Nguyen
"The value of life is in the fact that it is temporary. That's why you
must seek your eternality somewhere else; In Humanity!"
Ahmad Shamlou
"According to your faith be it unto you."
The guitar is actually my favorite instrument. You know, when I feel
something or I some feeling in the heart I always go to the
guitar” Gerorge Winston
we want to treat customers the way we like to be treated. derrick
alexander, MBNA
[AND IN CUST SRVC]
"Switzerland is underdeveloped regarding how to handle clients in a
call center. Once I called a call center in America and was surprise at
the high level of awareness that tcustomer is money - here, the
attitude is, if it works it works, if it doesn't, I doesn't, if the
customer doesn't get it he will call back…" Tele2 Representative.
“Say It Loud — I'm Black and I'm Proud”.. James Brown
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. — Albert
Einstein, 20th-century Swiss mathematician, physicist and public
philosopher
What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to
make it his heaven. — Friedrich Holderin
"Father, forgive them, they don't know what they're doing." - J.C.
about people who were about to kill him.
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what
happens to us. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 20th-century Nobel
Prize-winning, French existentialist writer
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? — Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, 18th-century French philosopher
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. —
Jewish proverb
When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree. —
Vietnamese saying
"BRAZILIANS SING TO PRAY AND PRAY TO SING" TV SHOW
When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb,
good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred,
good men must commit themselves to the glories of love. — Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., 20th-century Nobel Prize-winning American
civil rights leader
When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.— John
Kenneth Galbraith, 20th-century North American economist, author and
diplomat
When somebody lies, somebody loses. — Stephanie Ericsson
I will prepare myself and some day my chance will come. Abraham Lincoln.
without sensitivity there is no wisdom and without wisdom innocence is
perishable. Dr. P. Krishna
When you leave you must stay left. Mary Zimbalist
An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a
sheep. Arab proverb
Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.
Stanley Horowitz
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger
you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
Epictetus (55-135 AD, Roman Philosopher)
Vision without action is a daydream, Action without vision is a
nightmare. Japanese Proverb
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
Mark Twain
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to
accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Helen Keller
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of
improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley
people who didn't like him didn't know why because he would not
retaliate. Mehrdad about Nima.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I
am thankful that thorns have roses. Allophones Karr
Life is a river which constantly changes its course, and the way of
understading is to follow this river not the dried up and deserted
river bed. Henry Ford.
The true function of authority is to destroy itself. A Quaker
Maxim.
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality
their survival has no value. — Bertrand Russell, 20th-century
British mathematician and philosopher
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
— Albert Einstein, 20th-century Swiss mathematician, physicist
and public philosopher
You can only govern men by serving them. — Victor Cousin
[This is disgusting and ridiculous and tells you about how ugly
politics can be:] When all else fails, tell the truth. — Donald
T. Regan, 20th-century American business executive, Treasury Secretary,
chief of staff for President Ronald Reagan [His boss said:
You
can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating
jelly beans. — Ronald Reagan]
Faint heart never won fair lady. English saying
X: as a child I thought would I grow up to be a trainman or a carman or
a bikeman: -- car dream came true
Neil Armstrong: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for
mankind."
Karzai said ahead of his visit here that his country would be "heaven
in less than a year" if it received the $300 billion the United States
had spent in Iraq.
Hindsight's always 20-20
Stewart asked Musharraf if he had omitted any mention of the war in
Iraq in his memoir because it has gone so well. Musharraf: "It has led
certainly to more extremism and terrorism around the world."
they only place one's never afraid is switzerland -- Dad
War doesn’t determine who is right – only who is left. Bertrand ruse
lle
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence
without civilization in between. Oscar wilde
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole
book." - Nietzsche.
NEVER KNEW A SHORT WHO WASN'T A MASOCHIST AT HEART… mrbluechip1941
A judge said Wednesday he wants Wall Street to learn that cheating the
public because everybody else is doing it or because there's lax
enforcement of financial crimes is no defense for white collar crime.
"Questions of fact that are threatening to wealth and power become
questions of power, and so the scientific evidence on global warming
— an inconvenient truth for the largest polluters — becomes
a question of power, and so they try to censor the information." Al Gore
Bush stood below a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished" on May 1,
2003 after the collapse of
Saddam Hussein's regime. The war has continued since then, with the
death of more than 2,600 members of the U.S. military. Vice President
Dick Cheney said last year that the Iraqi insurgency was "in its final
throes." AP 23 AUG 2006
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big
enough majority in any town?
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer. Huckleberry Finn
Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in
observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95) English biologist.
[Science is] practical philosophy. René Descartes (1596-1650) French
philosopher, mathematician.
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much,
and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much
power.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English philosopher, mathematician.
Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things. Virgil (70-19 BCE)
Roman poet.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. Oscar Wilde
(Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) (1854-1900) Irish writer.
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to
refrain. Claude Bernard (1813-78) French physiologist.
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of
science makes skepticism a virtue. Robert K. Merton, Social
Theory, 1957.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with
many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) German Philosopher
"The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to
succeed." - Chinese saying,
if you’re looking for your glasses first touch your nose. Antione /
French saying
"There's a sense that the market's never happy," said Ryan Larson, a
senior equity trader at Voyageur Asset Management Inc. in Chicago.
"They want one thing and when they get it, the next day we're on to
something else." AP
‘Hilton also told the magazine she collects $500,000 in fees just
to show up at parties and other events from Las Vegas to Tokyo. Her
best-paying gig, she said, was a recent Austrian appearance. "I had to
say `hi' and tell them why I loved Austria so much," she is quoted as
saying. And why does she like Austria? "Because they pay me $1 million
to wave at crowds!"’
in teaching dad computers he said: man asle ghaziero nemifahmam - hala
bayad ba panjere manovr konam (LOL)
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of
the oppressed."
-- Steven Biko
Cindy Sheehan: "Before my son was killed, I used to think that one
person could not make a difference, but one person that is surrounded
and supported by millions of people can be heard." [lg]
“Out beyond all ideas of right doing and wrong doing –
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” Rumi. [lg]
I prefer people who jump in puddles than worry about getting their feet
wet. Kate Welch
“the mountain can’t be flat!” Gisele Balleyes
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with
the average voter." ~ Winston Churchill
“Mass and energy are both different manifestations of the same
thing – a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average
man.” Einstein [lg]
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LITTLE more than a month before he was assassinated, Abraham Lincoln
stood at the east portico of the Capitol and delivered his second
inaugural address. It was a brief speech with a distinctly religious
message: he twice cited biblical verses, and made a dozen references to
God, most strikingly in assessing the opposing sides in the Civil War.
"Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes
His aid against the other," Lincoln said. "It may seem strange that any
men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread
from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be
not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither
has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes."
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"The rules conflict in the same sense that the laws of physics
conflict," Cattell cautions. "There's a law of physics that a body in
motion tends to stay in motion, but then there's also the law of
gravity. So you can't go on one law alone."
Take, for example, his Rule 40: Committees produce bad designs.
Cattell believes it's essential to have a single architect to steer any
given project. "Otherwise you end up with compromises or
inconsistencies or lack of coherence," he says.
Worse, if two architects pull in opposite directions, the project may
be stretched so thin it finally snaps
Rick Cattell
Distinguished Engineer
Sun Microsystems
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