Monday, October 02, 2006

Quotes Collection 2

A collection of some of my favorite quotes:

The sun is new each day.
-Heraclitus

Everything is miraculous. It is miraculous that one does not melt in one’s bath.
-Pablo Picasso

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
-Sigmund Freud

Experience is not what happens to you, but what you make of what happens to you.
-Aldous Huxley

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.
-Thomas Fuller

A common danger unites even the bitterest of enemies.
-Aristotle

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step towards victory. This is one great reason for the utmost tolerance of a variety of opinion.
-Alfred North Whitehead

If you should put even a little on a little, and should do this often, soon this too would become big.
-Hesiod

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.
-George C. Marshall


First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
-Epictetus

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
-Marcel Marceau

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.
-Petronious

The whole secret of the teacher’s force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
-Emerson

How can you tell what is important to a man? They are the things he makes time for.
-Anonymous

I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders, I have even read his philosophers and listened to his music. I have studied in detail the account of every damned one of his battles. I know exactly how he will react under any given set of circumstances. And he hasn’t the slightest idea of when I’m going to whip the hell out of him.
-General George S. Patton






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