Oh what a friend chance can be – when it chooses.
It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.
In Life We Can Have Results or Reasons.
Change your meanings you alter your destiny. Life does not give us what we want. Life gives us whatever we expect.
Amateurs focus on rewards. Professionals focus on risk!
Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.
It is how you show up at the showdown that counts.
There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation.
Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.
You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.
Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life span. But are they smart enough to solve the problems of the 21st century?
Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.
The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.
The proud heart feels not terror nor turns to run and it is his own courage that kills him.
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
Even a fool may be wise after the event.
Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.
Three thousand years have not changed the human condition in this respect; we are still lovers and victims of the will to violence, and so long as we are, Homer will be read as its truest interpreter.
I will stay with it and endure through suffering hardship and once the heaving sea has shaken my raft to pieces, then I will swim.