Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. Plato (427BC-327BC)
This City is what it is because our
citizens are what they are. Plato (427BC-327BC)
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato (427BC-327BC)
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. Plato (427BC-327BC)
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. Plato (427BC-327BC)
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle (384BC-322BC)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle (384BC-322BC)
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. Aristotle (384BC-322BC).
Marcus Aurelius121-80
"... I do not know what to say to you: for if say to you what I think, I shall offend you, and you will perhaps leave the school....and if I do not say what I think, how shall I be acting....and I shall not have improved you al all..." Epictetus (55-135)
"But so long as you do not show him the truth, do not ridicule him, but rather feel your own incapacity." Epictetus (55-135)
He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.- Epictetus (55-135)
What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for
this, I was training for this?
- - Epictetus (55-135)
"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell." St. Augustine (354-430)
"Genius is eternal patience." Michelangelo (1475-1564)
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. 1561-1626. Francis Bacon.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. 1561-1626. Francis Bacon.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. 1561-1626. Francis Bacon. <consider the 2nd law of thermo;)>
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. 1561-1626. Francis Bacon.****
"We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs." - Francois Fenelon(1651-1715)
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do,
something to love and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
"Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke.(1729-1797)
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. Edmund Burke. (1729-1797)
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. Edmund Burke. (1729-1797)
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. Edmund Burke. (1729-1797)
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. Edmund Burke. (1729-1797)
"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind." William Hazlitt (1778-1830).
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
"Gentlemen, why don't you laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh, I should die." - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that doesn't exist. Charles Darwin (1809-1892)
It is impossible to conceive of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity. Charles Darwin (1809-1892)
"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world." - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
"Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process." - Phillips Brooks( 1835-1893)
"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest
fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is
to live dangerously!" - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Wit is the epitaph of emotion." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"What? Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely
a mistake of man's?" - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says
Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be
both -- a philosopher." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Plato was a bore." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"From the Military School of Life. What does not kill
me makes me stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort:
with it a calm passage is to be made across many a
night." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself;
lying to others is relatively an exception." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Liberal institutions straightaway cease from being liberal
the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained
no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than
liberal institutions." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"When one rows, it is not the rowing that moves the
ship; rather rowing is simply a magical ceremony by
which one compels a demon to move it." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a
useful root that we cannot get on without it any more
than we can without potatoes." - Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
"Responsibility is the price of
freedom." Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915)
"Men are not punished for their sins, but by them." Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915)
"The Supernatural is the natural not yet understood." Elbert Hubbard (1856 –
1915)
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." Elbert
Hubbard (1856 – 1915)
"Never explain—your friends do not need it and your
enemies will not believe you anyway." Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915)***
"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." Elbert Hubbard (1856 –
1915)
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will
make one." Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915)
"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a
teacher." Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915)
"We preserve our sanity only as we forget self in service." Elbert Hubbard (1856
– 1915)
"You can lead a boy to college, but you can't make him
think." Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915)
"If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate." Elbert
Hubbard (1856 – 1915)
"We awaken in other the same attitude of mind we hold toward them." Elbert
Hubbard (1856 – 1915)
"Anatomy is destiny." Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
"Analogies decide nothing, it is true, but they can make one feel more at home." Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief . Sigmund
Freud (1856 - 1939)
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a
renunciation of instinct. Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. Sigmund Freud (1856 -
1939)
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility,
and most people are frightened of responsibility. Sigmund Freud (1856 -
1939)
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. Sigmund Freud (1856 -
1939)
No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that
inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come
through the struggle unscathed. Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
One is very crazy when in love. Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of
civilization. Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been
able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is
"What does a woman want?" Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate
connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in
man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. Sigmund
Freud (1856 - 1939)
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the
child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. Sigmund Freud (1856 -
1939)
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now
they are content with burning my books. Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. George Santayana.1863-1952.
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better. George Santayana.1863-1952.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. George Santayana.1863-1952.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces. George Santayana.1863-1952.
The primary use of conversation is to
satisfy the impulse to talk. George Santayana.1863-1952.
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
...
"Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son." - Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936)
"The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next." - Helen Keller (1880-1968)
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." - Helen Keller (1880-1968).
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own
ignorance." - Will Durant (1885-1981)
"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're
going to do now and do it." - William Durant, (1885-1981)
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of
him. - John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are
ignored." - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"I am a great & sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, & all His works must be contemplated with respect" -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"All the modern inconveniences" -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot will be shot. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"when in doubt, tell the truth." -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, “Where is the best place to go to?” He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages—heaven for climate, and hell for society." -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"I do not at all resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts company with reality." Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.".... Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is." George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut,
and a woman who can't sleep with the window open." - George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950)
"Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of
power, corrupt power."
"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares
that it is his duty."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else." -George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Omit needless words." William Strunk, Jr. (1869–1946)
"I can resist everything except temptation". Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves." - Victoria (1819-1901)
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James (1842-1910)
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind."- William James (1842-1910)
"...as He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free." - Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create this fact.". William James (1842-1910)
"He was singularly kind to me at a moment when I needed kindness even more than I needed encouragement." - William Earnest Henley (1849-1903)
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey." - Thomas A. Edison
(1847-1931)
"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong". Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)***
"I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)***
"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not
sure about the former." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created
it." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them." - Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But
let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in
school." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that
counts cannot necessarily be counted" - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.". -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February." -- Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
"A nickel aint worth a dime anymore." Yogi Berra (1925- )
"Violence does not and can not exist by itself; it is invariably intertwined with the lie." A.I. Solzhenitsyn (1918- )
"I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better." Sophie Tucker
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live" -- ML King (1929-1968),)
"Even a paranoid has some real enemies." - Henry A. Kissinger (1923 - )
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." - Henry A. Kissinger (1923-)
"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem." - Henry Kissinger (1923-)***
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.- John D. Rockefeller III
"And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worth while, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: "I served in the United States Navy." John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"We must pass along a willingness to think hard; to see new answers; to chance mistakes; and to 'mix it up to freely' in the forums and activities around us to promote knowledge" - Admiral Arleigh Burke (1901-1996)
"Anyone can raise standards; the trick is to improve performance." Bill Turpen (1940 -2004)
That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.- Lise Hand
To the vector goes the spoils." Norton Juster
"And suddenly she realized that what she had thought was freedom and joy was nothing but anarchy and sloth." Norton Juster
I hate being quoted; the only thing I hate more is being quoted out of context. Jack Gleason
Never permit your personal limitations to stand in the way of your students. Professor Jerry Williams (USNA)
The Sons of Martha, by Rudyard Kipling
The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Invictus, by William Earnest Henley
A Message to Garcia: being a preachment, by Elbert Hubbard
"We must pass along a willingness to think hard; to see new answers; to chance mistakes; and to 'mix it up to freely' in the forums and activities around us to promote knowledge" - Admiral Arleigh Burke (1901-1996)
"He's a very odd man, but he does his job, better than is immediately obvious . . ." LaLuce D. Mitchell (1986- )