The professor I respect most these days~~~

蝎子发表于 2004-12-10 00:38:24

He is really good at pictures~~~

This is the most useful sentences he told me:)

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. -Henry Ford

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -William James

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. -Sydney J. Harris

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. -Galbraith's Law

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of living thought and changes from day to day as does the air around us. -Oliver Wendell Holmes.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. -Friedrich Nietzsche

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. -Luciano de Crescenzo

Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone. -Roy R. Gilson

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions. - E.M. Forster, 1921: Howards End.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. -Helen Keller

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows nothing of. -Blaise Pascal

It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it. -William Somerset Maugham

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. -Sarah Bernhardt

Now I see the garden that I've grown is just the same as those outside. The fences that, erected to protect, simply divide. -Peter Hammill

After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box. -Italian Proverb

He is happiest, be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs. -Karl Kraus

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. -Arthur Ashe

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man. -Mahatma Gandhi

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain. -Mary Catherine Bateson

Faites que le re^ve devore votre vie a fin que la vie ne devore pas votre re^ve. - Liasons, 4th & Ivy, San Diego

I do not read to think. I do not read to learn. I do not read to search for truth. I know the truth. The truth is hardly what I need. I read to dream. - Stephen Sondheim, "PASSION"

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. -John Stuart Mill

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. - D.H. Lawrence

I believe a man is born first unto himself--for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers. - D.H. Lawrence

When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always. - Mahatma (Mohandas Karamchand) Gandhi

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. - Hungarian proverb

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! - Miguel de Cervantes

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. - Francis Bacon

No matter how far you've gone down the wrong road, turn back. - Turkish proverb

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world. - George Dennison Prentice

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. - J. Bronowski [The Ascent of Man]

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James

I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. - Seneca

To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. - Bernadette Devlin

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve. - Tom Landry

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures. - Edward Eggleston

Life is like a dog-sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. - Lewis Grizzard

Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale

There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. - James Thurber

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer. - Stephen Hawking

Ah, but a man's reach must exceed his grasp, / Or what's a heaven for? - Robert Browning

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way. - E.L. Doctorow

On Creativity: "Well, if I knew where the songs came from, I'd go there more often. You just have to wait in attendance most of the time." - Leonard Cohen

They also serve who only stand and wait. - John Milton

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. - Mohammed

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. - Norman Cousins

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. - Mahatma Gandhi

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do. -Zachary Scott

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. -Moliere

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. -Shakespeare

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. -H. Jackson Browne

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. -Samuel Johnson

It is clever, of course, to be clever; And good, of course, to be good; But when you're so frightfully clever; As seldom to be understood; It's sad, though if anything sadder; Not to be quite as good as you should. - Lewis Carroll

Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere. - Seamus Heaney (translator, Beowulf)

Say it. Don't, if you want easy understanding, delay it. - Allen Klinger

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. -Charles F. Kettering

One of the great discoveries man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. Most of the bars we beat against are in ourselves - we put them there, and we can take them down. -Henry Ford

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. -Alice M. Swaim

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. -Jonathan Kozol

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. -Robert Louis Stevenson

Today I am more than ever frightened. I wish it would dawn upon engineers that, in order to be an engineer, it is not enough to be an engineer. -Jose Ortega y Gasset

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. -Calvin Coolidge

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. -Latin proverb

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. -Oliver Goldsmith

Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can save a couple of hours in the library. -Frank H. Westheimer, chemistry professor (1912- )

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. -Henry J. Kaiser

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. -Thomas Carlyle

The ability to piece together work that will both satisfy and support us is the secret to surviving, even thriving. -Wendy Reid Crisp

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -Robert L. Stevenson

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. -Alistair Cooke

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. -Indira Gandhi

What's important is that one strives to achieve a goal. -Ronald Reagan

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -Will Rogers

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. -Henry David Thoreau

First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do. -Epictetus

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. -John Ruskin

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -Seneca

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -Oscar Wilde

This above all: to thine own self be true, \ And it must follow, as the night the day, \ Thou canst not then be false to any man. -Shakespeare

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best. -Henry Van Dyke

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. -Ludwig Wittgenstein

Everyone has the will to win. Winners have the will to prepare. -Joe Paterno (Penn State football coach [...] when asked why his teams have the will to win)

If you judge, investigate. -Seneca

Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. -Samuel Johnson

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves. -P.D. James

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be. -Abraham Maslow

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -Bertrand Russell

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. -Sandra Carey

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I now know that they mean money. -Lord Byron

Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please. -Benjamin Franklin

It is better to live a useful life than to die rich.

Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. -Benjamin Franklin

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune. -Richard Whately

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. -Chinese proverb

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment. - Robert Benchley

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. - Booker T. Washington

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. - Anatole France

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -George Bernard Shaw

The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. -A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. -Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -Ken Olsen, President of DEC (Digital Equipment Corp.), World Future Society Convention, 1977.

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. - Henry Ford

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. - Henry Ford In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -Samuel Butler

In the first place, God created idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. -Mark Twain

Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH. -Rick Bayan

A man there was, tho' some did count him mad / The more he cast away, the more he had. -John Bunyan, preacher (1628-1688) [Pilgrim's Progress]

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. - Bertrand Russell

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. - John Ruskin

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. - Ursula LeGuin

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Successful people are very successful at asking for help. - Robert Maurer

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - George S. Patton, Jr.

Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass. - Confucius

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. -Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)

The greatest power I have over my own life is my ability for self-definition --to know who I am by learning where I came from and where I have been. - Jamila Wideman

The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. - Oscar Wilde

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. - Agatha Christie

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - Shakespeare

Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience. - Hasidic saying

The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: "I do not know." - Andre Maurois

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. - Arthur Helps

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. - Peter De Vries, editor, novelist (1910-1993) [The Tunnel of Love, 1954]

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. - Arnold Bennett

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. - Eric Hoffer

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners. -Benjamin Barber

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. -Bishop Mandell Creighton

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -Benjamin Franklin

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. -Aldous Huxley

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -Alvin Toffler

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. -Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts. -George Matthew Adams

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. -John Burroughs [Time and Change]

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. -James Bryce

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. -Mark Twain

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. -Saint Augustine

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. -John Stuart Mill

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism. -Charles Schwab

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. - Dennis Wholey

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. -Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. - Japanese proverb

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. - Galileo Galilei

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. - Plato

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. - Leo Buscaglia

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. - Arthur Koestler

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures. - Edward Eggleston

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy. - Benjamin Stolberg

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. - Thomas A. Edison

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. - Thomas A. Edison

I never did a day's work in my life; it was all fun. - Thomas A. Edison

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward. - Arther Koestler

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient observation than to any other reason. - Isaac Newton

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? - Albert Einstein

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. - Linus Pauling

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen. - Leonardo Da Vinci

The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints. - Walter Gilbert

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. - Alan Saporta

When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. - John W. Gardner

As regards intellectual work, it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realms of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual working in solitude. - Sigmund Freud

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. - W. Somerset Maughami

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. -Leo Tolstoy

The way to become boring is to say everything. -Voltaire

All art is selected details. -Paul Cezanne

The words of truth are always paradoxical. -Lao Tzu

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. - Franklin P. Jones

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. -Albert Einstein

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. -Robert Louis Stevenson

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -Abraham Lincoln

We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Talmudic Saying

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. - Michelangelo

There is no great beauty that hath not some strangeness to the proportion. -William Blake

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. -Marcus Aurelius

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. -Albert Camus, French writer

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr

We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. - Edmund Burke

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. - Francis Bacon

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -Mark Twain

In the first place, God created idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. -Mark Twain

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me. -Mark Twain

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. -Mark Twain

Noise proves nothing--often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. -Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. -Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. -Mark Twain

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. -Mark Twain

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us. -Mark Twain

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics. June 10, 1933, Ideas and Opinions, 274.

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater. (p. 177)

I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough. (p. 11), p. 15

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein, p. 10

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? - Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. - Albert Einstein

Not everything that counts can be counted , and not everything that can be counted counts. PNB, p. 316

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Possibly by Einstein, p. 314

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. PNB Einstein, p. 319

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. - Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. - Albert Einstein

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children. - Albert Einstein

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The following statements by Albert Einstein were brought to my attention by Timothy Langston and are input from hardcopy he gave me. (Wherever "sic" appears I believe there could be either a punctuation or spelling error.)
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Before God we are equally wise - and equally foolish.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtfully submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his own intelligence.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than to be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But with deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie. (sic)

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. PNB, p. 321

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the ax in the hand of the pathological criminal.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of understanding and compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. Possibly By Einstein, p. 316

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Note: There were two items from Timothy Langston's Homework Assignment in CS 190 that were already present in the list I'd posted to the web. Even without those items he found a third more quotations than I did.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

We aim above the mark to hit the mark. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they are prepared to see. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The louder he talks of honour, the faster we count our spoons. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walking is man's best medicine. - Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine (460-377 BC)
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength. - Ralph Sockman
Every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. - Chinese Proverb
Optimism is true moral courage. - Sir Ernest Shackleton
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. - Benjamin Franklin
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. - Thomas Arnold
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood. - Benjamin Spock
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Character is what you really are; reputation is what you are perceived to be. - John Wooden
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. - Henrik Ibsen
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Every saint has a past and every sinner a future. - Oscar Wilde
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. - Marcus Aurelius
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. - Jean de la Bruy
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. -Madame De Stael

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come; and when death has come, we are not. - Epicurus

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. -Dalai Lama

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep. - Socrates

"There are many kinds of success in life worth having," Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his autobiography. "It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer, or doctor, or a writer, or a president, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone; but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching."
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. - Kahlil Gibran
"Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day to day living that wears you out." - Anton Chekhov

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