Daily Quotation

"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss."
-Thomas Carlyle​

 

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
-Albert Einstein​

 

"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self."
-Albert Einstein​

 

"People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us."
-Bill Gates​

 

"Debate is action. It is action turned on itself, a reflection of consciousness, i.e. what makes us something besides mere animals. Action turned on itself for the sake of doing the right thing."
-XHerakleitos

 

"Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan."
-John McGahern​

 

"To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal."
-Saint Augustine​

 

"He who angers you conquers you."
-Elizabeth Kenny​

 

"When the well's dry, we know the worth of water."
-Benjamin Franklin​

 

"It is the property of fools, to be always judging."
-Thomas Fuller​

 

"If you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right."
-Paul Graham​

 

"Through no talent of our own, we have the privilege of knowing far more than [was known in] past centuries. Aristotle would be blown away by what any schoolchild could tell him today. That's the kind of privileged century in which we live."
-Richard Dawkins​

 

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
-George Orwell​

 

"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
-Abraham Joshua Heschel​

 

"It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up."
-Charles Sorenson​

 

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
-Abraham Lincoln​