Daily Quotation

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
-René Descartes​

 

"There is a great difference between mind and body, inasmuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible."
-René Descartes​

 

"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
-John Locke​

 

"To be is to be perceived."
-George Berkeley​

 

"A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence."
-David Hume​

 

"Without speculation there is no good and original observation."
-Charles Darwin​

 

"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."
-Albert Einstein​

 

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."

~H.P Lovecraft

 

"All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident."
-Schopenhauer​

 

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

-Elbert Hubbard

 

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Gandhi​

 

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

 

"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​

 

"What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents."
-Robert Kennedy​

 

"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place."
-Mark Twain​

 

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
-T. S. Eliot​

 

"Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
-Sun-Tzu​

 

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."
-Omar Bradley​