Wells Quotes - Page 16

• It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well...

  Rich Lowry

  Fake People, Able, People

  "Hillary the Calculator" by Rich Lowry, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 24, 2007.

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• The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

  Mark Twain

  Running, Inspirational Life, Taken

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• Life's not just about being alive, but being well.

  Martial

  Life, Inspirational Life, Alive

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• A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fate, Men, Arrows

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• They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny, and can make mouths of fortune.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Fate, Destiny, May

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• There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.

  Robert Breault

  Family, Strong, Sibling

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• I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Depression, Jesus, Pain

  "Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series".

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• What constitutes success? She who has achieved success has lived well; laughed often and loved much; has gained the respect of little children; has filled her niche and accomplished her task; has left the world better than she found it; has always looked for the best in others and given the best she had.

  Bessie Anderson Stanley

  Love, Marriage, Children

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• Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.

  Emile Durkheim

  Science, Law, Enough

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• Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise, and orderly arranged, after the manner of the copper or tin worms, which distillers use to cool their liquors as they distil over. The whole circumference of each of these streaks was about the thickness of a hair of one's head. ... all consisted of very small green globules joined together: and there were very many small green globules as well. [The earliest recorded observation of the common green alga Spyrogyra.]

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Wise, Science, Hair

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• Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.

  Al Gore

  Science, Weight, Facts

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• Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature could have foreseen it from the beginning of the ages. If a being with such a mind existed, we could play no game of chance with him; we should always lose.

  Henri Poincare

  Powerful, Science, Law

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• I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Believe, Science

  The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II C. Darwin to Asa Gray May 22nd [1860] (p. 105)

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• If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.

  Karl Pearson

  Knowledge, Science, Doe

  Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.

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• [David Harker asked: Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?]
  Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.

  Linus Pauling

  Ideas, Drs, Good Ideas

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• It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question without an idea which invites an answer. I consider it, therefore, an absolute principle that experiments must always be devised in view of a preconceived idea, no matter if the idea be not very clear nor very well defined.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Views, Ideas

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• Life is the art of being well deceived.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Deceived Us, Deception

  William Hazlitt (1817). “The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners”, p.36

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• We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship.

  Jesse Owens

  Games, Play, Rights

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• A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

  Elias Canetti

  Men, Lice, Add

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• Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.

  Anneli Rufus

  Being Alone, Solitude, Loner

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• My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Views, Opinion, Thinking Flexibly

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• It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.

  Virginia Wade

  Kings, Thinking, People

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• He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Deeds, Doe, God Love

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• Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

  Leon Trotsky

  Distance, Two, Violence

  Leon Trotsky (1967). “Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence”, New York : Stein and Day

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• Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

  Elbert Hubbard

  House, Spirit

  "A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard". Book by Elbert Hubbard. p. 16, 1911.

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