Daily Quotation

"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note."
-Doug Floyd​

 

"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."
-Winston Churchill​

 

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong
gives it the superficial appearance of being right,
and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.

But the tumult soon subsides...
Time makes more converts than reason.

-Thomas Paine



Very appropriate for all the rhetoric going on lately

 

"The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind."
-Heinrich Heine​

 

Hell is...other people.



- Jean-Paul Sartre

 

"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest."
-C. S. Lewis​

 

"Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream."
-Kahlil Gibran​

 

"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end."
-Ursula K. LeGuin​

 

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
-Marie Curie​

 

"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."
-Hazlitt​

 

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.


Oscar Wilde

 

"Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right."
-Henry Ford​

 

"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."
-Denis Diderot​

 

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
-Mahatma Gandhi​

 

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
-John F. Kennedy​

 

"It is not enough for a handful of experts to attempt the solution of a problem, to solve it and then to apply it. The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment."

 

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."
-Flora Whittemore​