Values In Life Quotes
“As Pride increases, Fortune declines.”
“Industry, Perseverance, and Frugality, make Fortune yield.”
“To-morrow I’ll reform, the fool does say;
To-day itself’s too late; - the wise did yesterday.”
“Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.”
“Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the approaches of the last.”
“What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of Things?”
“Well done, is twice done.”
“There are three Things extreamly hard; Steel, a Diamond and to know one’s self.”
“O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design’d thou should’st use them?”
“He’s a Fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom.”
“No gains without pains.”
“Beware of little Expenses: a small Leak will sink a great Ship.”
“Pay what you owe, and you’ll know what is your own.”
“Be always ashamed to catch thyself idle.”
“If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.”
“Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths.”
“He that lieth down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.”
“A Slip of the Foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the Tongue you may never get over.”
“He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of dinner.”
“Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.”
“People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.”
“Would you persuade, speak of Interest, not of Reason.”
“Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy Enemy to gain him.”
“The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one’s self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.”
“You may delay, but Time will not.”
“Lost time is never found again.”
“Take this remark from Richard, poor and lame, Whate’er’s begun in Anger, ends in Shame.”
“All things are easy to Industry, all things difficult to Sloth.”
“He that cannot obey, cannot command.”
“If you would reap Praise you must sow the Seeds, gentle Words and useful Deeds.”
“Haste makes Waste.”
“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.”
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
“At a great penny worth, pause a while.”
“Ignorance leads Men into a party, and Shame keeps them from getting out again.”
“He that pays for work before it’s done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.”
“Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.”
“Thou can’st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may’st a friend into an enemy.”
“He that falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.”
“Patience in Market, is worth Pounds in a year.”
“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.”
“Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.”
“Buy what thou hast no need of, and e’er long thou shalt sell they necessaries.”
“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”
“He that speaks much, is much mistaken.”
“Since thou art not sure of a Minute, throw not away an Hour.”
“’Tis easier to suppress the first Desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.”
“He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one lets t’other go.”
“The sleeping Fox catches no poultry. Up! up!”
“If your Riches are yours, why don’t you take them to t’other World?”
“What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.”
“Great Estates may venture more; Little Boats must keep near Shore.”
“’Tis easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”
“Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
“Diligence overcomes Difficulties, Sloth makes them.”
“Neglect mending a small Fault, and ‘twill soon be a great One.”
“Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.”
“A Change of Fortune hurts a wise Man no more than a Change of the Moon.”
“Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”
“Dost thou love Life? Then do not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Life is made of.”
“Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom, but Babbling is ever a Folly.”
“A long Life may not be good enough, but a good Life is long enough.”
“For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.”
“Don’t think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men’s; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.”
“You may give a Man an Office, but you cannot give him Discretion.”
“He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.”
“He is a Governor that governs his Passions, and he a Servant that serves them.”
“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”
“Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.”
“A good Example is the best Sermon.”
“Wise Men learn by others’ harms; Fools by their own.”
“Laziness travels so slowly that Poverty soon overtakes him.”
“He that by the Plough would thrive, himself must either hold or drive.”
“Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living’s Thinking.”
“The second Vice is Lying; the first is running in Debt.”
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
“The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.”
“To be proud of Knowledge, is to be blind with Light.”
“Get what you can, and what you get hold; ‘tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.”
“An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.”
“Men take more pains to mask than mend.”
“To be proud of Virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.”
“One To-day is worth two To-morrows.”
“Idleness is the Dead Sea, that swallows all Virtues: Be active in Business, that Temptation may miss her Aim; the Bird that sits, is easily shot.”
“Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, no example sway thee, no persuasion move thee, to do any thing which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do."
"When in doubt, don't."
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Quotes
Some of my favorite quotes
“We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.” - Norman Mailer
“Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” - Mark Twain
“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.” - William Arthur Ward
“Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.” - Albert Einstein
“Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.” - Albert Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.” - Henry Emerson Fosdick
“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.” - Kahlil Gibran
“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures.” - Edward Eggleston
“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.” - Jonathan Kozol
“Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I’ll show you a man who can’t put his pants on.” - Arthur K. Watson
“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.” - Arthur Koestler
“Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.” - Mark Twain
“O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!” - Michel de Montaigne
“Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” - Marcus Aurelius
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” - Helen Adams Keller
“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.” - Soren Kierkegaard
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.” - Tony Hoare
“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” - Heraclitus
“Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.” - Abraham Lincoln
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” - Helen Adams Keller
“If words are to enter men’s minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men’s defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.” - J.B. Phillips
“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.” - Sydney J. Harris
Do not praise yourself
not slander others:
There are still many days to go
and any thing could happen.
- Kabir
“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.” - Thomas Jefferson
“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.” - Bertrand Russell
“New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled, the humiliating question arises, ``Why then are you not taking part in them?’’” - H.G. Wells
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” - Henry David Thoreau
“Noise proves nothing—often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.” - Mark Twain
“It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” - Alfred Adler
“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.” - Helen Adams Keller
“One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.” - Stephen Hawking
“Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.” - Albert Schweitzer
“If a man points at the moon, an idiot will look at the finger.” - Sufi wisdom
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.” - Chuang-tzu
“The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.” - Frank Barron
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” - Francis Bacon
“Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.” - Paul Tournier
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.” - George Bernard Shaw
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” - Charles F. Kettering
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” - Marcus Aurelius
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.” - Robert F. Kennedy
“You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end.” - Sidney A. Friedman
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” - William Arthur Ward
“For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his [or her] happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.” - Andy Rooney
“Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel, well, if I give this enough time, it’ll turn out that this was good, so I shouldn’t worry about it too much.” - William Gaines
“If you let yourself be absorbed completely, if you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life.” - Norman Cousins
“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.” - Carl Jung
“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.” - George Sand
“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.” - Ursula K. Le Guin
“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.” - Josh Billings
“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.” - Epictetus
“The future must be seen in terms of what a person can do to contribute something, to make something better, to make it go where he believes with all his being it ought to go.” - Frederick R. Kappel
“We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.” - William Arthur Ward
“If you don’t make a total commitment to whatever you’re doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It’s tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.” - Lou Holtz
“At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.” - John Berger
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” - Jim Valvano
“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” - Alexander Graham Bell
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.” - Niels Bohr
“Life is a long lesson in humility.” - James Barrie
“The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.” - Hugh Black
“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.” - Isaac Newton
“A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living.” - Henry David Thoreau
“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” - Rabindranath Tagore
“He who would travel happily must travel light.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers… Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.” - Francois Fenelon
“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.” - Victor Hugo
“People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.” - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations.” - Bertrand Russell
“The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. … until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.” - Iyanla Van Zant
“Walking is also an ambulation of mind.” - Gretel Ehrlich
“The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.” - Giovanni Ruffini
“How often is it a phantom woman who draws the man from the way he meant to go? So was man created, to hunger for the ideal that is above himself, until one day there is magic in the air, and the eyes of a girl rest upon him. He does not know that it is he himself who crowned her, and if the girl is as pure as he, their love is the one form of idolatry that is not quite ignoble. It is the joining of two souls on their way to God. But if the woman be bad, the test of the man is when he wakens from his dream. The nobler his ideal, the further will he have been hurried down the wrong way, for those who only run after little things will not go far. His love may now sink into passion, perhaps only to stain its wings and rise again, perhaps to drown.” - James Barrie (The Little Minister, Chapter 1: The Love-Light)
“The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother’s eyes as she looks at us, is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.” - James Barrie
“Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.” - James Barrie
“A great writer has spoken sadly of the shock it would be to a mother to know her boy as he really is, but I think she often knows him better than he is known to cynical friends. We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.” - James Barrie
“So Babbie loved the little minister for the best that she had ever seen in man. I shall be told that she thought far more of him than he deserved, forgetting the mean in the worthy: but who that has had a glimpse of heaven will care to let his mind dwell henceforth on earth? Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover’s privilege.” - James Barrie
“When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.” - Confucius
“The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.” - John Vance Cheney
“There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.” - Aristotle
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” - Wayne Dyer
“Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.” - Shirley Hufstedler
“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.” - Erma Bombeck
“Without danger you cannot get beyond danger.” - George Herbert
“If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.” - Rabbi Harold Kushner
“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.” - Tom Robbins
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.” - Adlai E. Stevenson
“No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.” - George Eliot
“Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.” - Carl Jung
“Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.” - Jack Canfield
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” - Robert Anthony
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.” - Mother Teresa
“You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.” - Henri Frederic Amiel
“What we wish, that we readily believe.” - Demosthenes
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” - Demosthenes
“Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.” - Mark Twain
“There’s as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.” - Trammel Crow
“We must travel in the direction of our fear.” - John Berryman
“How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.” - Stephen Covey
“If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap. If you want happiness for a day - go fishing. If you want happiness for a month - get married. If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else.” - Chinese Proverb
“Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.” - David Lloyd George
“Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.” - Brian Tracy
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake.” - Elbert Hubbard
“Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.” - Germain de Stael
“Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.” - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.” - Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” - Henry David Thoreau
“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.” - Victoria Holt
“We must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment. But we can beg for an increase of love in our hearts that will vitalize and transform all our individual actions.” - Dorothy Day
“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first. When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.” - Paramahansa Yogananda
“Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.” - Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” - Henry Van Dyke
“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.” - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
“When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.” - Walt Whitman
“People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.” - Stephen R. Covey
“Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.” - Peace Pilgrim
“Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When you don’t know what harbor you’re aiming for, no wind is the right wind.” - Seneca
“The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.” - Herbert Sebastian Agar
“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi
“We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.” - Walter Savage Landor
“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.” - Theophile Gautier
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” - Andre Gide
“Figure out what your purpose is in life, what you really and truly want to do with your time and your life then be willing to sacrifice everything and then some to achieve it. If you are not willing to make the sacrifice, then keep searching.” - Quintina Ragnacci
“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” - Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.” - Kahlil Gibran
“When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world we lose connection with one another and ourselves.” - Jack Kornfield
“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.” - Albert Schweitzer
“I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.” - Erica Jong
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.” - Tennessee Williams
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” - Norman Cousins
“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.” - Francis Bacon
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction” - Albert Einstein
“Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.” - Buddha
“Most people are paralyzed by fear. Overcome it and you take charge of your life and your world.” - Mark Victor Hansen
“…if there is sin against life, it lies in hoping for another life and evading the implacable grandeur of the one we have.” - Albert Camus
“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.” - Epicurus
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” - Charles Darwin
“One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.” - Anatole France
“The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That’s all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it’s something you allow.” - Will Garcia
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow.” - Chinese Proverb
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” - Carl Bard
“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.” - Harry Emerson Fosdick
“You will never find time for anything. You must make it.” - Charles Buxton
“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.” - Benjamin Disraeli
“The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.” - Edwin Schlossberg
“Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.” - John Andrew Holmes
“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.” - Barnett Cocks
“It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.” - Mohandas K. Gandhi
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.” - Elbert Hubbard
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” - John Muir
“An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.” - Cato The Elder
“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” - Moliere
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” - Edward Abbey
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” - Walt Whitman
“Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.” - Alan Alda
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.” - Ovid
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on ‘I am not too sure.’” - H.L.Mencken
“If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.” - Carl Jung
“How does one become a butterfly? … You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.” - Trina Paulus
“We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas, and not for things themselves.” - John Locke
“People change and forget to tell each other.” - Lillian Hellman
“Thank God I’m not a Jungian.” - Carl Jung
“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done. Then they begin to hope it can be done. Then they see it can be done. Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.” - Frances Hodgson Burnett
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.” - Robertson Davies
“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” - Henry Winkler
“Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.” - Alfred A. Montapert
“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.” - Norman Cousins
“I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me.” - Max Reger
“If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.” - Cardinal Richelieu
“Whenever you do things from your Soul, you feel a river inside, a joy.” - Rumi
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” - Emily Dickinson
“God is in you as the ocean is in the wave.” - Eric Butterworth
“Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.” - Meister Eckhart
“The world in general doesn’t know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.” - W. Somerset Maugham
“The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels.” - Carl Jung
“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.” - Jean-Paul Sartre
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.” - Joseph Addison
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell (in The Triumph of Stupidity 10 May 1933)” - Bertrand Russell
“A bit of perfume always clings to the hand that gives the rose.” - Chinese proverb
“Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, ‘War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.’” - Immanuel Kant
“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.” - Susan B Anthony
“All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.” - Marshall Rosenberg
“Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.” - Marshall Rosenberg
“My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I’m not selling bread, I’m selling yeast.” - Miguel de Unamuno
“The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.” - Mircea Eliade
“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” - Albert Einstein
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens….” - Carl Jung
“When we understand the needs that motivate our own and other’s behavior, we have no enemies.” - Marshall Rosenberg
“Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.” - Albert Einstein
“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence, but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“It’s never what people do that make us angry, it’s what we tell ourselves about what they did.” - Marshall Rosenberg
“Making a request without revealing the feeling/need takes all the joy out of other’s service.” - Lucy Leu
“You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself.” - Louis Kahn
“The significant problems of our time cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” - Albert Einstein
“Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.” - Henry David Thoreau
“Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.” - Oscar Wilde
“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” - Emily Kimbrough
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” - Albert Einstein
“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” - Albert Einstein
“Enlightenment must come little by little—otherwise it would overwhelm.” - Idries Shah
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” - Barry LePatner
“Humanity has been sleeping—and still sleeps—lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human multitude there slumbers an immense spiritual power which will manifest itself only when we have learnt how to break through the dividing walls of our egoism and raise ourselves up to an entirely new perspective, so that habitually and in a practical fashion we fix our gaze on the universal realities.” - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.” - James Barrie
“Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.” - Ambrose Bierce
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” - Voltaire
“People all say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.” - Joseph Campbell
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” - Carl Jung
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.” - Albert Einstein
“Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old — old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don’t. In both cases we have to do something.” - Inga Teekens
“If you are inside of something, say an atom, you only see electrons whirling chaotically around you. If you moved outside the atom you would see those electrons moving with a pattern around the atom. If you rise further above you see that atoms are actually the building blocks of larger structures called molecules. And so it goes, on up the scale, ad infinitum. The ever familiar ‘forest from the trees’ syndrome. It’s all a matter of perspective. True creativity is allowing yourself to gain the loftiest perspective you can in relation to the object of your quandary or inquiry.” - J.L. Read
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” - Buddha
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw
“Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.” - Philip Greenspun
“I don’t mind what happens.” - Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.” - Gene Fowler
“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” - Tacitus
“Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.” - Melvin Conway design systems communication organizations
“I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.” - Thomas Edison
“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.” - Nikos Kazantzakis
“The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao.” - Lao Tzu
“The best practice is inspired by theory.” - Donald Knuth
“The best theory is inspired by practice.” - Donald Knuth
“A moment’s thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.” - J. E. Houseman
“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” - Lewis Carroll
“I’ve had a lot of trouble in my life—most of which never happened.” - Mark Twain
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - Buckminster Fuller
“Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus of interest in the learner.” - Carl Rogers
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.” - A N Whitehead
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.” - William James
“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.” - Albert Einstein
“The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.” - Daniel J. Boorstin
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” - Shunryu Suzuki
“To get the viewpoint of the other person appreciatively and profoundly and reconcile it with his own so far as possible is the supreme achievement of man and his highest vocation.” - Henry Nelson Wieman
“I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.” - Tony Hoare
“We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.” - Tony Hoare
“Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.” - Dan Barker
“There’s only one wrong way to live and that’s unhappily.” - Patrick Elliott
“If you have the same problem for a long time, maybe it’s not a problem. Maybe it’s a fact.” - Yitzhak Rabin
“If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.” - Lyndon Baines Johnson
“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.” - e.e. cummings
“To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one’s voice.” - Ambrose Bierce
“The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best — and therefore never scrutinize or question.” - Stephen Jay Gould
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” - Søren Kierkegaard
“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” - Albert Einstein
“Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.” - S. Leonard Rubinstein
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.” - Albert Einstein
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
“Only short programs have any hope of being correct.” - Arthur Whitney
“The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.” - Thomas Kuhn
“Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.” - Noam Chomsky
“Man’s ‘progress’ is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.” - Max Beerbohm
“Those who are enamored of practice without theory are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty where he is going. Practice should always be based on a sound knowledge of theory.” - Leonardo da Vinci
“IV.17 When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.” - Confucius
“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” - R. Buckminster Fuller
“The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.” - Stephen Jay Gould
“The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.” - Terence McKenna
“Religion is a defense against the experience of God.” - Carl Gustav Jung
“The attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.” - Alan Watts
“The discovery of this reality is hindered rather than helped by belief, whether one believes in God or believes in atheism. We must make here a clear distinction between belief and faith, because, in general practice, belief has come to mean a state of mind which is almost the opposite of faith. Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on the condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go. In this sense of the word, faith is the essential virtue of science, and likewise of any religion that is not self-deception.” - Alan Watts
“The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.” - Jacques Hadamard
“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” - Pablo Picasso
“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” - Picasso
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” - James Oppenheim
“As tedious as arguing about definitions is, it can’t hold a candle to arguing without definitions.” - David R MacIver
“On two occasions I have been asked, — ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” - Charles Babbage
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” - Albert Einstein
“A variable is to data flow what GOTO is to control flow. Just as GOTO allows control to go anywhere, a variable allows data to go anywhere.” - Arch D Robinson
“Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, really count.” - Albert Einstein
“Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.” - Wayne Dyer
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.” - Oscar Wilde
“Everything you can imagine is real.” - Pablo Picasso
“The moon could not continue shining if it had to pay attention to all the dogs barking at it.” - Anonymous
“The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.” - Will Durant
“Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.” - Le Carre
“The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.” - Richard Hamming
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” - William Butler Yeats
“The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.” - D.H. Lawrence
“Yo can’t reason someone out of something he didn’t reason himself into.” - Jonathan Swift (via Alfie Kohn)
“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.” - Edward R. Murrow
“What you already know is merely a good departure point.” - Keorapetse Kgositsile
“The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.” - William Somerset
“Being attached to a speculation is not a good guide to research planning. One should always try both directions of every problem. Prejudice has caused famous mathematicians to fail to solve famous problems whose solution was opposite to their expectations, even though they had developed all the methods required.” - Anil Nerode (on P vs NP)
At this point I am reminded of the keynote speech of the then boss of IBM in France who addressed the audience at the 7th IEEE Logic programming conference in Paris. IBM prolog had added a lot of OO extensions, when asked why he replied: Our customers wanted OO prolog so we made OO prolog. I remember thinking “how simple, no qualms of conscience, no soul-searching, no asking ‘Is this the right thing to do’” … - Joe Armstrong Why OO Sucks
“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” - Linus Pauling
“Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics.” - G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” - Rene Descartes
“I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.” - Wernher von Braun
“In science, ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.’ I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.” - Stephen Jay Gould
“Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.” - Eckhart Tolle (thanks @ktotheb)
“Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.” - Anthony de Mello
“I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.” - Alan Watts
“A question mark does not a question make.” - Anonymous (thanks @jakevsrobots)
“The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that’s why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they’ve really done is they’ve shifted their relationship with time.” - Caroline Myss
“The creative adult is the child who has survived.” - Ursula K LeGuin (thanks @ktotheb)
“Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.” - Ram Dass (thanks @ktotheb)
“If extreme idealism isn’t working out for you, maybe it is because you are not wholeheartedly following your own ideals.” - Luke Palmer (blog post)
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world (- Mahatma Gandhi). As applied to software: design software as if it were the beautiful paradise you want it to be, then build pieces of the scaffolding back to the status quo.” - Luke Palmer (blog post)
“It’s not what you look at that matters; it’s what you see.” - Henry David Thoreau
“The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.” - Eckhart Tolle
“Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.” - Eckhart Tolle
“Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.” - Eckhart Tolle
“If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into aliveness, alertness, and creativity.” - Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
“When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change. The Roman philosopher Tacitus rightly observed that ‘the desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.’ If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into aliveness, alertness and creativity.” - Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
“Change is painful, yet pain is changeful.” - Anonymous
“Observe your thoughts, don’t believe them.” - Eckhart Tolle
“What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart.” - Marshall B. Rosenberg
“We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.” - Tenzin Palmo
“If you want to enjoy intimacy, you must learn to enjoy pain.” - Marshall Rosenberg
“Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are impermanent.” - Alan Watts
Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls,
something borrowed which we mistake as our own.
Ignorance is better than this; clutch at madness instead.
Always run from what seems to benefit your self:
sip the poison and spill the water of life.
Revile those who flatter you;
lend both interest and principal to the poor.
Let security go and be at home amidst dangers.
Leave your good name behind and accept disgrace.
I have lived with cautious thinking;
now I’ll make myself mad.
Rumi, Mathnawi II: 2327–2332, version by Camille and Kabir Helminski, posted to Sunlight
“When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.” - Rudolf Bahro
“Everything is the same spirit watching itself through the eyes of different observers.” - Depak Chopra
“Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself.” - Depak Chopra
“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.” - Thomas H. Huxley
“Easy reading is damn hard writing.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Hard writing is easy reading; easy writing is hard reading.” - E.B. White
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” - Rumi
“Learning is remembering what you’re interested in.” - Richard Saul Wurman
“I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you’ve got to hook the fish.” — Buckminster Fullero
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” - Anais Nin
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” - Elbert Hubbard
“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” - Chinese Proverb
“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.” - Yogananda
“Perhaps you have moved away by standing still.” - Anonymous (via @ktotheb)
“A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts.” - Stephen Toulmin (from “Human Understanding”)
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
Are you willing to let go of all you hold dear to grasp what is real? - N. Robison 01/01/09
“If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against” - Osho (Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain)
“If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.” - Hsin Hsin Ming
“Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.” - Osho
“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.” - Raymond Hull
“Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.” - Osho
“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” - Carl Sagan
“Doubt everything. Find your own light.” - Buddha
We too
should make ourselves empty,
that the great soul of the universe
may fill us with its breath.
Lawrence Binyon
“Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.” - Lao-tzu
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” - Krishnamurti
“Here it is — right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.” - Huang Po
“Dare to be naive.” - R. Buckminster Fuller
“I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuities. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat may come along and make a fortuitous life preserver. This is not to say, though, that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.” - R. Buckminster Fuller
“If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.” - Susanne Langer
“We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.” - Marshall McLuhan
“Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.” - Osho
“When your creative expressions match the needs of you fellow humans, then wealth will spontaneously manifest.” - Deepak Chopra
“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.” - Ram Dass
“It is better to believe than to disbelieve, in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.” - Albert Einstein
“The wise speak only of what they know.” - J.R.R. Tolkien
“I look into your eyes and see the whole universe, not yet born.” - Rumi
“Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don’t mind that you’ve been given a dirty cup.” - Rumi
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” - Leonardo da Vinci
“If the world is to be saved at all, it won’t be saved by old minds with new programs, but by new minds with no programs.” - Daniel Quinn
“If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.” - Daniel Quinn (The Story of B)
“Don’t choose one side of the argument. Learn to take both sides & work towards the middle.” - Paul Ferrini
“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.” - Arthur C. Clarke
“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good.” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart. If you want the truth to stand clearly before you, never be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind’s worst disease. — Zen master Sent-ts’an
“The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.” - Eckhart Tolle
“Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.” - George Leonard (1923–2010)
“Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.” - George Leonard
“In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists”. - Eric Hoffer
“This impure world that we presently experience exists only in relation to our impure mind.” - G. K. Gystso (maybe for a post on FP)
“You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.” - Robert F. Kennedy
“Don’t keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions.” - Buddha
“Every really new idea looks crazy at first.” - Abraham H. Maslow
“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” - Edsger Dijkstra
“As is often the case with baffling errors it is really quite simple. We tend to fixate on incorrect assumptions, and overlook the obvious, surprisingly frequently. I have found that one way to break through such barriers is to use the ‘Spaniel’ method: Carefully explain the program to your dog. Since the dog knows nothing of programming, you must justify every statement you make. In the process you will often discover the mistake. (I know it sounds weird, but it really does work!)” - W. W. Waite (as quoted in “Literate Programming and the ‘Spaniel’ Method” by Nick Hatzigeorgiu and Apostolos Syropoulos)
“Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.” - Pythagoras
“Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love” - Kahlil Gibran
“Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of imagination for an insight into necessity” (Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained, 1991).
“One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn’t fall” (Paul Valéry, Analecia, vol 14, 1970).
“Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we’re going to be more cheerful in the future, it’s because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.” - Pema Chödrön in When Things Fall Apart
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” - Soren Kierkegaard
“The 70% solution is usually the 40% solution, described by someone who can’t tell the difference.” - Gilad Bracha
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” - Albert Einstein
“When you speak of love, please ask yourself: ‘Is my love free of conditions?’ When you speak of truth, please ask yourself: ‘Is my truth free of judgement or opinion?’ When you speak of essence, ask: `Am I attached to the way people perceive or receive me?’” - Paul Ferrini (From “I Am the Door: Exploring the Christ Presence Within”)
“A person is able to understand only when he solves the problem by himself.” - Peter Dunov
“Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.” - Kahlil Gibran
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” - Charles Darwin
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.” - Charles Darwin
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