QOTD: A Medley
I haven’t done a QOTD in minute so I put together medley of choice quotes courtesy of Quotes of the Day
- Rebecca West
“Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.”
- James Reston
“This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.”
- Ernest Hemingway
“Never confuse movement with action.”
- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”
- P. B. Medawar
“The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.”
- H. H. Williams
“Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.”
- Emo Phillips
“At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.”
- Hubert H. Humphrey
“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”
- Will Durant
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
- Aldous Huxley
“That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.”
- Laurence J. Peter
“In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.”
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.”
- Dan Quayle
“If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.”
- G. K. Chesterton
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
- Richard Feynman
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
- Don Marquis
“If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; But if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.”
November 28th, 2005 at 7:00 pm
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November 29th, 2005 at 11:04 am
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