Say not, `I have found the truth,' but rather, `I have found a truth.'
-Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect
them in others.
-Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
-Swedish proverb
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed
be doing at that moment.
-Robert Benchley, humorist, drama critic, and actor
(1889-1945)
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury
that provokes it.
-Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
-Joseph Joubert, French
moralist and essayist (1754-1824)
An unjust peace is better than a war for justice.
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one
living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(1922-) [Bluebeard, 1987]
A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the
experience.
-Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has
a son who thinks he's wrong.
-Charles Wadsworth
Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary
three times as fast.
-Peter Drucker (1909-)
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops
of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
-Mohandas K.
Gandhi (1869-1948)
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy
death.
-Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what
his grandson will be.
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Mahatma Gandi
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a
bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
If I can stop one Heart from breaking / I shall not live in vain / If I can ease one
Life the Aching / Or cool one Pain / Or help one fainting Robin / Unto his Nest again /
I shall not live in Vain.
-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
I would rather vote for something I want and not get it
than vote for something I do not want, and get it.
-Eugene Debs
Do not wait for ideal circumstances,
nor for the best opportunities;
they will never come.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
My lord, burn in me the sacred fire of "doubt", so that it may burn away
every "certainty" that others have imprinted on me. And then, from its
ashes raise the light of certainty, clear of every fog.
-Dr. Ali Shariati
Whoever knows his own self knows his Lord.
-Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)
You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but
never the one with whom you have wept.
-Khalil Gibran
A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great
without being free.
-Khalil Gibran
I took a speed reading course and read `War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It
involves Russia.
-Woody Allen, author, actor (1935- )
A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close
enough to your eye.
-Samuel Grafton
What is to give light must endure burning.
-Viktor Frankl, author,
neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
-Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
[The Devil's Dictionary]
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
-John
Nichols, novelist (1940- )
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about
telescopes.
-Edsger W. Dijkstra, computer science professor
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-Henry David Thoreau, naturalist
and author (1817-1862)
Experience is the comb life gives you after you lose your hair.
-Judith
Stearn
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
-Voltaire
(1694-1778)
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and
moral courage so rare.
-Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice,
there is.
-Chuck Reid
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand
heads bowing in prayer.
-Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do
and not doing it.
-Mary Little
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
-Victor Hugo,
poet, novelist, and dramatist (1802-1885)
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never
left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our
ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
-Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978)
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose
from.
-Andrew S. Tanenbaum
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses
it.
-Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter,
educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941)
It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are
accountable.
-Moliere, actor and playwright (1622-1673)
Mathematics is a comb on the chaotic hair of the nature.
-Dr. Hossein Elaahi Qomshei, contemporary Iranian Philosopher
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there
must never be a time when we fail to protest.
-Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel
laureate (1928- )
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject
acceptance.
-- Ray Bradbury, advice to writers
A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are
lost.
--Murphy's Laws on Technology
Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
--Bertrand Russell
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
--Albert Einstein, Reader's Digest, Oct. 1977
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
--Naguib Mahfouz
Wisdom has two parts: 1) having a lot to say, and 2) not saying it.
April Fools' Day is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are
on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
--Mark Twain
All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.
--Kurt Godel
Only two things are infinite, the universe, and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former.
--Albert Einstine in The one, the only.
Politicians are like diapers: they both need to be changed frequently and for the same reason.
There are 10 types of people: those who know binary and those who don't.
To be or not to be
is not my dilemma
To break away from both worlds
is not bravery
To be unaware of the wonders
that exist in me
that
is real madness.
--Rumi
The world is a dangerous place to live; not
because of the people who are evil, but
because of the people who don't do
anything about it.
--Albert Einstein
Forgiveness is not an occasional art; it is a permanent
attitude.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.