"Success is the ability to go from one
failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965);
British politician.
"A wise man will make more
opportunities than he finds."
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626);
English author, courtier, & philosopher.
"Memory, the warder of the brain".
William Shakespeare (1564-1616);
English poet and dramatist.
"There is no better mirror to reflect man's image than his words."
Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540);
Spanish philosopher.
"The things that have come into
being change continually.
The man with a good memory remembers
nothing because he forgets
nothing."
Augusto Roa Bastos (b. 1917);
Paraguayan novelist.
"There is nothing in this world constant
but inconstancy."
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745);
Anglo-Irish writer.
"The past has its own codes and
customs."
Sócrates (470 - 399 BC);
Greek philosopher.
"The greatest virtues are those which
are most useful to other persons."
Aristotle (384-322BC);
Greek philosopher.
"As a rule, men worry more about
what they can't see
than about what they can."
Julius Caesar (100-44BC);
Roman emperor.
"Justice . . . limps along,
but it gets there all the same."
Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928);
Colombian author.
"For I have sworn thee fair,
and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell,
as dark as night."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616);
English dramatist, poet.
"A man travels the world over
in search of what he needs,
and returns home to find it."
George Moore (1852-1933);
Irish author, poet, dramatist.
"Cleverness is serviceable for everything,
sufficient for nothing."
Henri-Frederic Amiel (1821-81);
Swiss philosopher, poet.
"Thieves respect property.
They merely wish the property to
become their property that they may
more perfectly respect it."
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936);
British author.
"Fear is the mother of morality."
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900);
German philosopher.
'Knowledge is the conformity
of the object and the intellect.'
Averroes (1126-1198);
Spanish-Arab philosopher
and astronomist.
"The most incomprehensible fact
about the universe
is that it is comprehensible."
Albert Einstein(1879-1955);
Physician and mathematician.
"The supposed great misery
of our century is the lack of time."
John Fowles (1926 - ____);
English novelist.
"All rivers run into the sea,
but the sea does not overflow."
Chinese Proverb.
"Out of intense complexities
intense simplicities emerge."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965);
British statesman, writer.
"He that never changes his opinions,
never corrects his mistakes,
and will never be wiser on the
morrow than he is today".
Tryon Edwards (1809-1895);
US author, lexicographer.
"Silence is as full of potential
wisdom and wit as the unhewn
marble of great sculpture."
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963);
British author.
"Know or listen to those who know."
Baltasar Gracian (1601 - 1658);
Spanish philosopher, writer.
"Prediction is very difficult,
especially if it's about the future."
Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962);
Danish physicist and Nobel
laureate.
"For tribal man space was the
uncontrollable mystery.
For technological man it is time
that occupies the same role."
Marshall McLuhan (1911-80);
Canadian communications theorist.
"Learn from yesterday,
live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is
not to stop questioning."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955);
German born US physicist.
"The essence of science lies not in
discovering facts
but in discovering new ways of
thinking about them."
A. Szent-Györgyi (1893-1986);
Hungarian biochemist and
molecular biologist.
"An investment in knowledge pays
the best interest."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790);
US statesman and scientist.
"It does not matter how slowly you go,
so long as you do not stop."
Confucius (551-479BC);
Chinese philosopher.
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"I only know that I know nothing."
Socrates (47-399 BC);
Greek philosopher.
"Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours."
Seneca (5 BC-65 AD); Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician.
"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895); German philosopher.
"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955); Spanish philosopher.
"Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it."
Harper Lee (1926- ); US novelist.
"Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable.
It is disastrous to confuse them."
Madeleine L'Engle (1918- ); US writer.
"Do not free the camel of the burden
of his hump;
you may be freeing him from being a
camel."
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936);
British author.
"Language is the dress of thought."
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784);
English writer.
"The utmost extent of man's knowledge,
is to know that he knows nothing."
Joseph Addison (1672-1719);
English essayist.
"There is nothing new under the sun,
but there are lots of old things
we don't know about."
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914);
US writer.
"Upon the creatures we have made,
We are, ourselves, at last, dependent."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, dramatist.
"All things are impossible as long as
they seem so."
Concepción Arenal (1820-1893);
Spanish writer and sociologist.
"Brevity is the sister of talent."
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904);
Russian short-story writer, dramatist.
"Most people are about
as happy as they choose to be."
Abraham Lincoln
"He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626);
English philosopher.
"No one rises so high as he who knows
not whither he is going."
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658); English general and statesman.
"Science, after all, is only an expression
for our ignorance of our own ignorance."
Samuel Butler (1835-1902);
English author.
"Time is a certain part of eternity."
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC);
Latin writer, orator and statesman.
"Knowledge is proud that he has learned
so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."
William Cowper (1731-1800);
English poet.
"The deepest rivers flow with the least
sound."
Quintus Curtius Rufus (1st Century BC); Roman Historian.
"I haven't understood a bar of music
in my life, but I've felt it."
Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky (1882-1971); Russian composer.
"What's done cannot be undone."
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616);
English playwright and poet.
"Studies perfect nature and are
perfected still by experience."
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626);
English philosopher, essayist.
"To be ignorant of what occurred before
you were born is to remain always a child."
Marco T. Cicero (106 BC-43 BC);
Roman scholar, statesman, orator.
"Effort is only effort when it begins
to hurt."
José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955);
Spanish philosopher and essayist.
"Be brief, for no discourse can please
when too long."
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616);
Spanish writer.
"Give me a place to stand and
a lever long enough and I will
move the world."
Archimedes (285? - 212 BC);
Greek mathematician,
physicist and inventor.
"Prudence is but experience,
which equal time,
equally bestows on all men,
in those things they equally apply
themselves unto."
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679); English philosopher.
"The best way to make your dreams
come true is to wake up."
Paul Valery (1871-1945);
French poet, critic.
"The desire of knowledge,
like the thirst for riches,
increases ever with the acquisition of it."
Lawrence Sterne (1713-1768);
Irish novelist.
"An expert is someone who knows
some of the worst mistakes
that can be made in his subject
and how to avoid them."
Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976);
German physicist.
"We see only what we know."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832); German poet, dramatist.
"The future comes slowly,
the present flies
and the past stands still forever."
Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805);
German poet and dramatist.
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
Proverb.
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