QUOTES
Rise about all pains of moral life
for the reward of them is not simply
A crown or Palm
or the trumpets of the herald call for silence
so that our name can be proclaimed
but virtue, a steadfast sould
and peace of mind for all time
once we have overcome the buffets of fate
in any single contest.
-Epistulae Morales LXXVIII, 16
Only two things are infinite
the universe and human stupidity
and Im not too sure about the former
-A. Einstein
I know it'd be cool and all but sorry
the Empire didn't develop a death toxin to go with their death star.
-House MD Season 4 Episode-Whatever it Takes
The brave don't live forever
but the cautious don't live at all
here's to the brave
-T. Luce
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories
-Montaigne
I walked a mile with pleasure
she chatted all the way
but left me none the wiser
for all she had to say.
I walked a mile with sorrow
and not a word said she
but oh the things I learned from her
when sorrow walked with me.
-R. Browning
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
-A. Huxley
I count him braver
who overcomes his desires
than him who conquers his enemies
for the hardest victory is over self
-Aristotle
I walked a mile with pleasure
she chatted all the way
but left me none the wiser
for all she had to say
I walked a mile with sorrow
and not a word said she
but oh the things I learned from her
when sorrow walked with me
-R. Browning
All truth passes through three stages:
first it is ridiculed,
next it is violently attacked,
finally it is held to be self-evident
-Shopenhauer
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life
-C. Darwin
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune
-T. Fuller
Do not consider it proof
just because it is written in books
for a liar who will deceive with his tongue
will not hesitate to do the same with his pen
-Maimonides
Science is not a body of knowledge
but a way of looking at the world.
A creative questioning, probing, testing of all things.
Whenever you go below the surface,
connect two facts,
or refuse to blindly accept a piece of recieved information
you are practicing science
- C. Sagan
If you damage the character of another
you damage your own
Africian Proverb
History is the version of the past
that people have decided to agree apon
- N. Bonaparte
The art of medicine
consists in amusing the patient
while nature cures the disease
- Voltaire