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Favorite Quotations

  
...When I was a young man (about age 22) I thought my father was so old fashioned and stupid, I could hardly stand to be in the same room with him. About a half dozen years later, I was astonished at how much he'd learned in such a short time.
-- Mark Twain (paraphrased)

... Let me also exhort you to careful examination of what you read, if it be worthy any perusal at all; such an examination will be a safeguard from fanaticism, the universal origin of which is in the contemplation of phenomena without investigation into their causes.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
-- Paul Anderson

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
-- John W. Gardner

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
-- Francis Bacon

Portrait courtesy of Orion Jacobs

 

Nine tenths of wisdom consists of being wise in time.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

Now is not the time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
-- Ernest Hemingway

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

He is great who can do what he wishes, he is wise who wishes to do what he can.
-- Unknown

It's difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try.
-- Anonymous

...the Third Turning of the Wheel ... indicates... the presence of the Buddha Nature in all beings, thereby giving confidence
...brings humility to those who consider themselves superior to others because of having genuinely given rise to an enlightened attitude...
-- Mike Dickman, SHMOAU

...an enemy is not more baneful than a flatterer. -- Martin Luther

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

Computers let you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila.
-- Mitch Radcliffe

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate....
--Doug Engelbart ...

We are two great nations divided by a common language...
-- Sir Winston Churchill (paraphrased)

Happiness is not a goal to be pursued - it is the by-product of a balanced and purposeful life.
-- Unknown

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course powerful muscles, but no personality.

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.
-- Albert Einstein

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