Showing posts with label Wisdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wisdom. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Monday, September 11, 2006

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein
"All things are difficult before they are easy."
- Dr. Thomas Fuller


Friday, September 08, 2006

Google

Google:
"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- Hannah Arendt"

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Google

"Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
- Robertson Davies"

Saturday, April 08, 2006

Food for thought

"Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality."
- George Santayana

"Corporations have become surrogate parents in
the eyes of our representatives, the latch-key
kids of an absentee democracy."
-Ben Price, the Alliance for Democracy

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
- Tom Stoppard

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
- Soren Kierkegaard

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
- Bertrand Russell