In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
- Galileo Galilei
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
- Galileo Galilei
Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future.
- Melanie Gustafson
Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life: reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.
- Robert Anthony
No one is liable to make more mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.
- Vauvenargues
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.
- Og Mandino
He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
- Albert Einstein (1875-1955)
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that is all that agnosticism means."
- Clarence Seward Darrow (1857-1938)
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
- Francois Fenelon
"Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within."
- Steven H. Coogler
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
- Edith Sodergran
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
- Harvey S. Firestone
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
- Herodotus (485 - 425BC)