November 2006

Richard P. Feynman Quotations

-I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. -The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. -For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -We are at the very beginning of time for [...]

Orson Welles Quotations

-Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. -I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. Orson Welles

John Andrew Holmes Quotations

-Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. John Andrew Holmes

Elbert Hubbard Quotations

-No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. -To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. -The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. -If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate. Elbert Hubbard

Victor Borge

-Laughter is the closest distance between two people. Victor Borge

Hector Berlioz

-Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. Hector Berlioz

J.R.R. Tolkien Quotations

-I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. -It’s a dangerous business going out your front door. -Little by little, one travels far. J.R.R. Tolkien

Jean Cocteau Quotations

-The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one’s preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them. -Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces [...]

Oscar Wilde Quotations

-Education is an admirable thing, but it’s well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. -Every saint has a past and every sinner a future. -We are all in the gutter, but some of us are [...]

Pierre Beaumarchais Quotations

-If a thing isn’t worth saying, you sing it. -It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. Pierre Beaumarchais

Henry David Thoreau Quotations

-It is as hard to see one’s self as to look backwards without turning around. -Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. -Things do not change; we change. -It is never too late to give up your prejudices. -Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in [...]

H.L. Mencken Quotations

-The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. -The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. -The most common of all follies is [...]

Marcel Proust Quotations

-When two people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches. -The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing through new eyes. -A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer’s leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. [...]

Alan Alda Quotations

-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. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself. Alan Alda

Agatha Christie Quotations

-One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood. -I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. -Crime is terribly revealing. Try [...]

Adam Smith Quotations

-The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another… some of these situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others, but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardour which drives us to [...]

Abu Bakr

-Have an earnestness for death and you will have life. Abu Bakr

Abraham Maslow Quotations

-Any technique which will increase self knowledge in depth should in principle increase one’s creativity. -If our true nature is permitted to guide our life, we grow healthy, fruitful, and happy. -A musician must make his music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to ultimately be at peace with himself. [...]

Abraham Lincoln Quotations

-The Gettysburg Address Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can [...]

A. E. Housman Quotations

-Loveliest of trees the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now of my three score years and ten, Twenty will not come again. And take from seventy years a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things [...]

José Ortega y Gasset

-An unemployed existence is a negation worse than death itself because to live means to have something definite to do … a mission to fulfill … and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty …. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to [...]

Hermann Hesse Quotations

-If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us. -Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. Hermann Hesse

John Ruskin Quotations

-The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. -…in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work. -Say all you have to say in [...]

Wayne Gretzky

I never go to where the puck is, I go to where it’s going to be. Wayne Gretzky

Laurence Boldt Quotations

-With the voice of conscience as your centre, all the elements of your being are in harmony. When you lose the centre the parts scatter and begin to war with one another. -To go through life without ever knowing or expressing your talents is the worst form of poverty and self denial. -A life’s work [...]

Robert Frost Quotations

-My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future’s sakes. -Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And [...]

M. Scott Peck Quotations

-An adventure is going into the unknown. If you know exactly where you are going, exactly how you will get there, and exactly what you will see along the way, it is not an adventure… Because they involve the unknown, adventures are inherently dangerous to a greater or lesser degree. Yet it is also only [...]