March 2012
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“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.”
– Plato
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February 2012
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“The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.”
– Baltasar Gracian
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“You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around....”
– Marion Wink
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“We can only learn to love by loving.”
– Iris Murdoch
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“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing...”
– Samuel Johnson
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“Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we...”
– Aristotle
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“That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status...”
– Paul Tournier
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“We believe that if men have the talent to invent need machines that put men out...”
– John F. Kennedy
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“The only time anyone’s admitted they were a Christian before was when they...”
– Randy K. Milholland
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“Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover...”
– Alfred North Whitehead
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“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
– James Thurber
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“The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.”
– Robinson Jeffers
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“In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and...”
– William Shakespeare
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“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”
– Jonathan Swift
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“Education has for its object the formation of character.”
– Herbert Spencer
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“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature,...”
– Aristotle
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“You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You...”
– John Gruber
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“Nothing fails like success.”
– Gerald Nachman
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“I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts...”
– Euripides
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“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
– J. K. Rowling
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“Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in...”
– Bertrand Russell
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“So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time,...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and...”
– Malcolm Gladwell
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“Hope is necessary in every condition.”
– Samuel Johnson
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“The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes...”
– Sir William Osler
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“Adversity does teach who your real friends are.”
– Lois McMaster Bujold
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“I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the...”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man’s...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
– W. H. Auden
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“Observe Everything.
Communicate Well.
Draw, Draw, Draw.”
– Frank Thomas
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“Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
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“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the...”
– Henri Matisse
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“Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.”
– Jawaharlal Nehru
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“Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.”
– Mary Hirsch
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“I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as...”
– Richard Feynman
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“I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real...”
– E. Joseph Cossman
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“It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet...”
– Konrad Lorenz
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“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
– Mae West
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“Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all...”
– Alexander Pope
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“Whatever limits us, we call Fate.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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