Dragonelf - Favorite Quotes

Mark Twain

2012-06-30T15:44:00.000+02:00

Words are only painted fire;
a book is the fire itself.
- Mark Twain

Buddha

2012-06-30T15:42:00.001+02:00

Neither fire nor wind,
birth nor death can
erase our good deeds.
- Buddha

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

2011-09-30T19:38:00.000+02:00

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever
remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Richard Steele

2011-09-30T19:36:00.000+02:00

Reading is to the mind what
exercise is to the body.
- Sir Richard Steele

Benjamin Franklin

2011-04-19T14:12:00.000+02:00

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin

Daniel J. Boorstin

2011-03-09T08:42:00.000+01:00

Freedom means the opportunity to be
what we never thought we would be.
- Daniel J. Boorstin

Louis D. Brandeis

2011-03-09T08:41:00.000+01:00

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been
declared impossible before they were done.
- Louis D. Brandeis

King Solomon

2011-03-09T08:40:00.000+01:00

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.
- King Solomon

Ray Bradbury

2011-03-09T08:39:00.000+01:00

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
- Ray Bradbury

Christopher Morley

2011-01-19T19:09:00.000+01:00

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
- Christopher Morley

Henry Ford

2011-01-19T19:08:00.000+01:00

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite
capacity to not know what can't be done.
- Henry Ford

Albert Einstein

2010-12-12T18:11:00.000+01:00

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
- Albert Einstein

Confucius

2010-12-12T18:10:00.000+01:00

No matter how busy you may think you are,
you must find time for reading, or surrender
yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
- Confucius

Walt Whitman

2010-12-12T18:08:00.000+01:00

I believe a leaf of grass is no less
than the journey-work of the stars.
- Walt Whitman

Harold S. Geneen

2010-10-30T08:04:00.000+02:00

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
- Harold S. Geneen

Michael Crichton

2010-10-30T08:03:00.000+02:00

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
- Michael Crichton

Ursula Le Guin

2010-08-31T12:57:00.000+02:00

The only questions that really matter
are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula Le Guin

Simon Cameron

2010-07-18T23:07:00.001+02:00

An honest politician is one who, when
he is bought, will stay bought.
- Simon Cameron

Henry David Thoreau

2010-07-18T22:52:00.000+02:00

Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau

Herman Melville

2010-06-29T13:50:00.001+02:00

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand
fibers connect us with our fellow men.
- Herman Melville

John Dewey

2010-06-08T12:33:00.001+02:00

We can have facts without thinking but
we cannot have thinking without facts.
- John Dewey

Marilyn French

2010-05-21T12:06:00.000+02:00

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
- Marilyn French

Robert Orben

2010-04-20T13:32:00.000+02:00

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
- Robert Orben

Mark Edwards

2010-04-20T13:30:00.000+02:00

The object in life is not to be on the side
of the majority, but to be insane in such a
useful way that they can't commit you.
- Mark Edwards

Iris Murdoch

2010-04-20T13:29:00.000+02:00

We can only learn to love by loving
- Iris Murdoch