Ramana Maharshi

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
- Ramana Maharshi

Lord Chesterfield

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
- Lord Chesterfield

Virginia Woolf

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
- Virginia Woolf

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Max Planck

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
- Max Planck

David Letterman

USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population.
- David Letterman

Pat Riley

There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either In or youre Out. There is no such thing as life in between.
- Pat Riley

Hans Christian Andersen

“To travel is to live.”
- Hans Christian Andersen

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Mahatma Gandhi

John A. Appleman

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this; dream a great dream.
- John A. Appleman

Dr. Martin Luther King

"If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
- Dr. Martin Luther King

Henry David Thoreau

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
- Henry David Thoreau

Charles de Gaulle

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
- Charles de Gaulle

Cesare Pavese

Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
- Cesare Pavese

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Anonymous

If I want to hear the pitter-patter of little feet, I'll put shoes on my cat.
- Anonymous

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tristan Tzara

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
- Tristan Tzara

Steve Albini

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
- Steve Albini

Ansari

If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody.
- Ansari

Socrates

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
- Socrates

C. S. Lewis

...of that intimate laughter between fellow professionals, which of all earthly powers is strongest to make men do very bad things before they are yet, individually, very bad men.
- C. S. Lewis

Confucius

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
- Confucius

Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- Albert Einstein

J. J. Procter

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
- J. J. Procter

William Cowper

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
- William Cowper

Bob Edwards

"When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile."
- Bob Edwards

Lucille Ball

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
- Lucille Ball

James Branch Cabell

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell

Mark Twain

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.
- Mark Twain