"It is those who get lost, who find the new ways."
Nils Kjaer (1870-1924);
Norwegian writer.

"Ideas are, in truth, force."
Henry James (1843-1916); US writer.

"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light."
Thomas Fuller (1609-1661);
English writer and clergyman.

"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men
however they act; but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act."
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936);
British author.

"Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy,
inquiry the progress, ignorance the end."
Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592);
French philosopher.

"Nothing can be done quickly and
prudently at the same time."
Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.);
Roman writer.

"If I had my hand full of truth,
I would take good care how I opened it."
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
(1657-1757);
French author.

"Everyone complains of his memory, a
nd no one complains
of his judgement."
Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
(1613-80);
French writer.

"To fear the worst oft cures the worse."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
English dramatist, poet.

"It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95);
French poet.

"Time is a certain part of eternity".
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC);
Latin writer, statesman.

"I grow old learning something new every day".
Solon (640-558 BC); Greek legislator.

"The limits of my language are the limits of my mind.
All I know is what I have words for."
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951);
Austrian-born British philosopher.

"A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality."
Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, US author.

"The definition of the individual was:
a multitude of one million divided by one million."
Arthur Koestler (1905-83);
Hungarian-born British author.

"It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed".
Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805);
German dramatist.

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790),
US statesman, diplomat, inventor.

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts
as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
René Descartes (1596-1650); French philosopher.

"Some folk want their luck buttered."
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928); English novelist.

"He who learns but does not think, is lost!
He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC) Chinese philosopher.

"Memory, the warder of the brain."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616);
English poet and playwright.

"You cannot run away from weakness;
you must some time fight it out or perish."
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894);
Scottish novelist.

"Chance favors the prepared mind."
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895);
French chemist and biologist.

"Whatever creativity is,
it is in part a solution to a problem."
Brian Aldiss (b. 1925);
British science fiction writer.

"Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors."
Mark Twain (1835-1910), U.S. author.

"A nail is driven out by another nail.
Habit is overcome by habit."
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536); Dutch humanist.

"If you cry out of joy, do not dry your tears;
you are stealing them from grief."
Paul Jean Toulet (1867-1920); French writer, critic.

"If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,
the path of error is the path of truth".
Hans Reichenbach (1796 - 1859);
US educator, politician.

"He that will not apply new remedies
must expect new evils;
for time is the greatest innovator".
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626);
English philosopher, statesman, essayist.

"Work consists of whatever a body is
obliged to do.
Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
Mark Twain (1835-1910); US writer.

"Every step of life shows much caution is required".
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832);
German poet and playwright.

"Events of importance are the result
of trivial causes."
Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.);
Roman emperor.

"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity,
nor the lack of
contradiction a sign of truth."
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662);
French scientist and mathematician.

"Bring ideas in and entertain them
royally,for one of them may be the king."
Mark Van Doren (1894 - 1972)
US poet, writer.

"There is nothing like a dream
to create the future."
Victor Hugo (1802-1885);
French writer.

"Chance happens to all, but to
turn chance to account is the gift of few."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
English statesman, poet.

"If it were done when 'tis done,
then 'twere well
It were done quickly."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
English dramatist, poet.

"The essence of knowledge is, having it,
to apply it;
not having it, to confess your ignorance."
Confucius (c. 551BC - 479BC)
Chinese philosopher.

"From the errors of others,
a wise man corrects his own."
Publilius Syrus (1st Century B.C.);
Latin poet.

"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564);
Italian architect, sculptor and painter.

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626); British philosopher and statesman.

"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them,
we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
Orison Swett Marden (1853-1924); US writer, moralist.

"Each man is the smith of his own fortune."
Appius Claudius Caecus (c.340 - c.273 BC); Roman politician.

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519); Italian inventor, artist.

"Too much light is like too much darkness: it prevents you from seeing."
Octavio Paz (1914); Mexican writer.

"The cautious rarely err."
Confucius (551-479 B.C.); Chinese philosopher.

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917); French artist.

"The present contains nothing more than the past,
and what is found in the effect was already in the cause."
Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941); French philosopher.

"Never meet trouble half way".
John Ray (1627-1705); English naturalist.

"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty."
Billy Wilder (1906-2002); US film director.

"Youth has no age."
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish artist.

"The best of prophets of the future is the past."
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824); English poet.

"Language is the archives of history."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), U.S. essayist, poet.

"Don't find fault, find a remedy."
Henry Ford (1863-1947); US auto manufacturer.

"The world was created to be recreated."
Georges Duhamel (1884-1966); French novelist.

"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."
Hippocrates (460BC - 370BC) Greek physician.

"Take nothing on its looks: take everything on evidence.
There's no better rule."
Charles Dickens (1812-1870); English novelist, dramatist.

"Deliberate before you begin;
but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour."
Caius Sallustius Crispus (86BC-35BC); Roman historian.

"Self-reflection is the school of wisdom."
Baltasar Gracián (1601 - 1658); Spanish philosopher, writer.

"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950); Irish playwright.

"Dreams come true; without that possibility,
nature would not incite us to have them."
John Updike (b. 1932); US author.

"Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do
is to look and see how it does it."
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951); Austrian philosopher.

"Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."
Pythagoras (570-500 BC); Greek philosopher.

"Error is discipline through which we advance."
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842); US moralist, author, clergyman.

"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies."
C.C. Colton (1780-1832); English author, clergyman.

"A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much,
and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all."
Georges Bernanos (1888-1948); French novelist.

"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious,
than to be able to decide."
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821); French emperor.

"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
That is the point that must be reached."
Franz Kafka (1883-1924); Czech writer.

"Know or listen to those who know."
Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658); Spanish philosopher, writer.

"For the things we have to learn before
we can do them, we learn by doing them."
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.); Greek philosopher.

"We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting
something in front of us to stop us seeing it."
Blaise Pascal (1623-62), French scientist, philosopher.

"We can pay our debt to the past
by putting the future in debt to ourselves."
John Buchan (1875 - 1940); Scottish author, government official.

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
Auguste Rodin, (1840-1917); French sculptor.

"In youth we learn; in age we understand."
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916); Austrian novelist.

"We make the path by walking."
Antonio Machado, (1875-1939); Spanish poet.

"Thought is the steed; reason the rider."
George Sand (1804-1876); French writer.

"Science, after all, is only an expression
for our ignorance of our own ignorance."
Samuel Butler (1835-1902); English author.

"First appearance deceives many."
Phaedrus (1st century A.D.); Roman fabulist.

"All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95); English biologist.

"If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more
to patient attention than to any other talent."
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727); English mathematician, physicist.

"Give me insight into today
and you may have the antique and future worlds."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882); US philosopher, poet, essayist.

"The greater the difficulty, the more the
glory in surmounting it".
Epicurus (341-270 B.C.);
Greek philosopher.

"True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant."
Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936); Spanish philosopher and author.

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
Eugene Ionesco (1912-1994); Romanian-French dramatist.

"Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850); English poet