Miscellaneous Quotes - Page 13

• We understand nature by resisting it.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Resisting

  Gaston Bachelard (2002). “The formation of the scientific mind”, Clinamen Press Ltd.

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• Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Passion, Exercise, Order

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• Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Taken, Morality, Evidence

  Charles Krauthammer (1985). “Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties”, Random House (NY)

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• It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

  Isaac Asimov

  Foundation, Pay, Reputation

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

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• But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

  Morgan Freeman

  Life, Struggle, Thinking

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• To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

  Theophile Gautier

  Love, Heart, Carpe Diem

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  In Leo Rosten People I have Loved, Known or Admired (1970) "Groucho"

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• I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Cute, Sarcastic

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• By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms,' our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy... The Second Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Father, Military

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• The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Foundation, Stones, Structure

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• The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Vision, Depth, Would Be

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• Everything is energy in motion.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Energy

  Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1974). “Toward the one”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

  Margaret of Valois

  God, Science, Steps

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• We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lucky, Woods, Fool

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sea, Land, Walks

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• Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.

  William Allingham

  Cost, World, Politeness

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• To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

  St. Jerome

  Prayer, Saint, Slumber

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• 80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.

  Yogi Berra

  Balls, Isms, Holes

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• All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

  Francis Bacon

  Heart, Light, Hue

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• Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

  Menander

  Inspirational, Mean, Development And Growth

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• We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Loss, Hands

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.61, Modern Library

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• Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

  Marc Edwards

  Humorous, People, Mad

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• The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

  H. G. Wells

  Military, War, Men

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.14923, Delphi Classics

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• I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Judging, Deeds, Judgment

  MAURICE MAETERLINCK (1917). “A MIRACLE OF SAINT ANTONY AND FIVE OTHER PLAYS”

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• It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.

  Fred Hoyle

  Mistake, Greatness, Men

  Fred Hoyle (1966). “Of Men and Galaxies”, p.21, University of Washington Press

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