quotes

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Socrates

"My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it." Chuang-tzu

"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons." Douglas Adams, writer, dramatist, and musician (1952-2001)

"Success builds confidence, failure builds character." Unknown

"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book." Groucho Marx

"The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else." Randy Pausch

"The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones." W. Somerset Maugham

"It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling -- and indeed healthy -- to ask why you have been given so much." Condoleeza Rice

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter." Rachel Carson

"It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required." van Goncharov, novelist (1812-1891)

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." Voltaire

"We may all have come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now." Martin Luther King Jr.

"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

"You will never have a friend if you must have one without faults." Unknown

"You must learn first to observe the rules faithfully; afterwards, modify them according to your intelligence and capacity. The end of all method is to seem to have no method." Lu Ch'ai (Wang Kai) 17th century Master of Chinese brush painting

"Children act in the village as they have learned at home." Swedish proverb

"A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and physician (1809-1894)

"They see how energy flows, and follow its flow... If the flow is obstructed, they move away to do something entirely different." Carlos Castaneda, The Active Side of Infinity

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all." Norman Vincent Peale

"Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it." Henry Thomas Buckle, historian (1821-1862)

"One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference." Robert Fulghum

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill." Buddha