CHA's Collected Quotations on Selected Topics
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Change is the law of life, and those who look
only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
We live in a moment of history where change is so
speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. |
Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) |
To be perfect is to have changed
often. |
John Henry Newman (1801-1890) |
The absurd man is he who never
changes. |
Auguste Barthelemy (1796-1867) |
The trouble with our times is that
the future is not what it used to be. |
Paul Valery (1871-1945) |
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. |
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
The art of progress is to preserve
order amid change and to preserve change amid order. |
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
The greatest mistake you can make in
life is to be continually fearing you will make one. |
Elbert G. Hubbard (1856-1915) |
The absence of alternatives clears the
mind marvelously. |
Henry Kissinger (1923- ) |
I hold that that man is in the
right who is most closely in league with the future. |
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
The perpetual obstacle to human
advancement is custom. |
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
Two dangers constantly threaten the world:
order and disorder. |
Paul Valery (1871-1945) |
Human history becomes more and more
a race between education and catastrophe. |
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) |
When you're through changing,
you're through. |
Bruce Barton(1886-1967) |
Speak comfortable words! |
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
The ill and unfit choice of words
wonderfully obstructs the understanding. |
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) |
O' give me commentators plain,
Who with no deep researches vex the brain. |
George Crabbe (1754-1832) |
He that knows least commonly
presumes most. |
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
A memorandum is written not to
inform the reader, but to protect the writer. |
Dean Acheson (1893-1971) |
I think the whole glory of writing lies
in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves into the lives of others. |
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) |
It is always pleasant to be urged to
do something on the grounds that one can do it well. |
George Santayana (1863-1952) |
Tact is the ability to describe
others as they see themselves. |
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
A sharp tongue is the only edged
tool that grows keener with constant use. |
Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
Some people can stay longer in an
hour than others can in a week. |
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) |
It is much easier to be critical
than to be correct. |
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
If a man is often the subject of
conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism. |
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) |
I begin to suspect man's bewilderment
is the measure of his wisdom. |
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) |
A word of encouragement during a
failure is worth more than a whole book of praise after a success. |
Anon |
To them I said, "The truth would be
literally nothing but the shadows of the images." |
Plato (427?-347? BC) |
Between the idea and the reality,
Between the motion and the act, Falls the shadow. |
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) |
What we do not understand,
we do not possess. |
Johann von Goethe (1749-1832) |
We prove what we want to prove,
and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove. |
Emile Auguste Chatier |
Imagination is more important
than knowledge. |
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
All the effects of nature are
only the mathematical consequence of a small number of immutable laws. |
Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749-1827) |
We live in a Newtonian world of
Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankensteinian logic. |
Malcolm Cowley (1898- ) |
He that will not reason is a bigot,
He that cannot reason is a fool, He that dares not reason is a slave. |
William Drummond (1854-1907) |
Reason often makes mistakes,
but conscience never does. |
Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
I am dying with the help
of too many physicians. |
Alexander The Great (356-323 BC) |
The greatest difficulty of the
intellectual is distinguishing the important from the unimportant. |
John P. Grier |
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself,
but talent instantly recognizes genius. |
Arthur Conan Doyle (1858-1930) |
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
Everybody is ignorant,
only on different subjects. |
Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
What we need, gentlemen,
is a completely brand new idea that has been thoroughly tested. |
New Yorker Cartoon |
If a man will begin with certainties,
he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in
certainties. |
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) |
Any new theory first is attacked as absurd;
then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it seems to be important,
so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it! |
William James (1842-1910) |
Man errs so long as he strives. |
Johann von Goethe (1749-1832) |
The secret of good direction
does not consist of solving problems, but in identifying them. |
Lawrence A. Appley (1904- ) |
Every good laboratory consists of first rate men
working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is
an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the
hope of discovery. |
Ernst Rutherford (1871-1937) |
Creativity is so delicate a
flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.
Any of us will put out more ideas if our efforts are appreciated. |
Alexander F. Osborn (1888-1966) |
The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. |
Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) |
A hen is only an egg's way of
making another egg. |
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
Research is to see what everybody
else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. |
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893-1986) |
Everything should be made as
simple as possible, but not simpler. |
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration. |
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
The very first step toward
success in any occupation is to become interested in it. |
William Osler (1849-1919) |
Nothing ever succeeds which
exuberant spirits have not helped to produce. |
Fredrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
That man is truly free
who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) |
We are continually faced
with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. |
John Gardner (1912- ) |
Adversity is the state in which
a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers
then. |
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
Doing is the great thing.
For if, resolutely, people do what is right, in time they come to like doing it. |
John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
Method facilitates every kind of business,
and by making it easy, makes it agreeable and also successful. |
Charles Paul Simmons (1924- ) |
From compromise and things half-done,
Keep me, with stern and stubborn pride, And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me
still unsatisfied. |
Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) |
Success is partial to the persistent
person. |
Frank Crane |
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyages of their life,
Is bound in shallows and miseries. |
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
Experts ranked in serried rows,
Filled the enormous plaza full, But only one is there who knows,
And he's the man who fights the bull. |
Robert Graves (1895-1985) |
This, above all: Unto thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day, Thous canst not then be false to any man. |
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
Truth emerges more readily
from error than confusion. |
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) |
Life must be lived forwards,
But can only be understood backwards. |
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) |
Half the failures of life arise
from pulling in one's horse as it is leaping. |
Julius Hare (1795-1855) |
I shall be telling this with a sign,
Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, And I took the one less
traveled by, And that has made all the difference. |
Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
This could be such a beautiful
world if we could all care just a little more. |
Rosalind Welcher (1922- ) |
We travel together,
passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable supplies of air and soil,
preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and I will say the love,
we give our fragile craft. |
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) |
Fear less, hope more;
Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. |
Swedish Proverb |
The purpose of life
is the expansion of happiness. |
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1911?- ) |
The world is a comedy
to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. |
Horace Walpole (1717-1787) |
He who has a why to live can bear
almost any how. |
Fredrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
For all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been." |
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) |
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