One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
Marie Henri Beyle (1783 - 1842)
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not
attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won’t keep. Something must be
done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has
taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start
anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not
fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Trachiniae
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phrixus
Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Apology
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside
of you.
Wally ‘Famous’ Amos (1936 - )
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for
experience.
James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must
observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
While we're on the topic of cool quotes... this is a quote my philosophy professor, Prof. Cooper, shared with us the other day in class -- I had to write it down:
"I can resist anything but temptation."
-Oscar Wilde
This was the last thing my Prof. (Anderson) said to us in my last class (History & Systems) of my Undergraduate Career. Though he delivered it with a bit of a disclaimer, I really took to the words:
"you should be ashamed to die before you've won some victory for humanity."
- horace mann
(Bell, you've already heard this, but for everyone else...)Interesting quote, but on the flipside, i read this in the book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West:
"I dislike the words humanist or humanitarian because it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of some of the most heinous crimes in nature."
Posted by: Lindsay Smith at May 19, 2004 03:13 PM