Quotes
The Americans have need for the telephone, but
we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
- Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer of the British
Post Office, 1876
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of
everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never
tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
The trouble with the world is that the stupid
are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
- Bertrand Russell
You never know what is enough unless you know
what is more than enough
- William Blake
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he
stands in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and
controversy
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Life spent making mistakes is not only more
honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing
- George Bernard Shaw
Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many
in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal
that voluntarily does this to himself
- Robert A. Heinlein
Humankind has not woven the web of life: We are
but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the
web we do to ourselves. All things are bound together
- all things connect
- Seattle
Our enemies are sacred because they make us strong
- Native American saying
I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can
do anything important enough for that. You get
angry at people when you feel that their acts
are important. I don't feel that way any longer.
- Carlos Castaneda
The journey of a thousand miles, Begins with
one step.
- Lao-tse
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him. But of a good leader,
who talks little, when his work is done, his aim
fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'
- Lao-Tse
He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who
knows that he doesn't know, knows.
- Lao Tse
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