March 22, 2009

Quotes 3/22/09

Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Albert Einstein

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
Aristotle

Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment; you must also be right.
Robert L. Park

March 21, 2009

Quotes 3/21/09

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brow

March 16, 2009

Quotes 3/16/09

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.
Isaac Newton

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

March 15, 2009

Quotes 3/15/09

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
Cory Doctorow

March 5, 2009

Quotes 3/5/09

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einsten

Character is higher than intellect...A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?
William James

March 3, 2009

Quotes 3/3/09

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
Albert Guinon

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Frank Moore Colby

That's why you gotta learn to help those in the dark, but keep yourself in the light. That's essential.
Mitch Hawk

March 1, 2009

Quotes 3/1/09

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
Al Batt

If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
P. G. Wodehouse

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt Groening

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Russell Baker