Favorite Quotes

"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders." - Gauß

 

"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." - Addison

 

"We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days." - Hall

 

"Never was anything great achieved without danger." - Machiavelli

 

"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence." - Clifford

 

"One can advise comfortably from a safe port." - Kierkegaard

 

"Home is not where you live, but where they understand you." - Morgenstern

 

"Custom is the great guide to human life." - Hume

 

"My mind's my kingdom." - Quarles

 

"Life is a long lesson in humility." - Barrie

 

"The war begins to make itself felt very near to us." - Petigru

 

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." - Dali

 

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." - Woodberry

 

"Truth exists; only lies are invented." - Braque

 

"Never argue; repeat your assertion." - Owen

 

"Literature has become my life." - Bulgakov

 

"In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem." - Metchnikoff

 

"I see too deep and too much." - Barbusse

 

"In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere." - Carnap

 

"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it." - Mizner