The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance.
Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
1452 - 1519
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We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.
François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 - 1680
1613 - 1680
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
1903 - 1950
Orwell, G. (1949). Nineteen eighty-four. London: Secker & Warburg.
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley 1849 - 1903
1849 - 1903
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy Bentham 1748 - 1832
1748 - 1832
The rules of the game Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go.
Emanuel Lasker 1868 - 1941
1868 - 1941
Counting the beats, Counting the slow heart beats, The bleeding to death of time in slow heart beats, Wakeful they lie.
Robert Graves 1895 - 1985
1895 - 1985
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman 1912 - 2006
1912 - 2006
Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.
born 1949
Murakami, H. (2009). 1Q84. Tōkyō: Shinchōsha.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
born 1965
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
God does not play dice.
1879 - 1955
Commentary on the validity of quantum indeterminism :
A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 - 1968
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967) In his speech 'The Other America' (1967-68): 'a riot is the language of the unheard.'
1929 - 1968
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
In his speech 'The Other America' (1967-68): 'a riot is the language of the unheard.'
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
1915 - 1973
Watts, A. (1957). The way of Zen. New York: Pantheon.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Winston Churchill 1874 - 1965
1874 - 1965
I don't think it makes sense to give more importance to a mountain than an ant.
Joan Miró 1893 - 1983
1893 - 1983
All experience is an arch to build upon.
Henry Adams 1838 - 1918
1838 - 1918
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.
Galileo Galilei 1564 - 1642
1564 - 1642
With the pride of an artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance.
1923 - 2007
The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden (1968) by David W. Noble, p. 204
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
1879 - 1955
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
Galileo Galilei 1564 - 1642
1564 - 1642
I figure I’ll be champ for about ten years and then I’ll let my brother take over – like the Kennedys down in Washington.
Muhammad Ali 1942 - 2016
1942 - 2016
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
Roald Dahl 1916 - 1990
1916 - 1990
Tell me if anything was ever done.
Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
written in his notebooks in despair of so many projects that were never completed.
1452 - 1519
written in his notebooks in despair of so many projects that were never completed.
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
1880 - 1956
paraphrase
I am beginning to lose patience With my personal relations. They are not deep And they are not cheap.
W. H. Auden 1907 - 1973
1907 - 1973