It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Theodore Roosevelt
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
J. R. R. Tolkien
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
Winston Churchill
I am always willing to learn. I do not, however, always enjoy being taught.
Prince Philip
When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.
Louis Pasteur
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
Louis Pasteur
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Olin Miller
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.