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Friday, 20 March 2009

Quotes....

'The road to affluence is paved with good inventions.' - Charles J.C. Lyall

'Knowledge consists not of facts themselves but the understanding of the relationships among facts.' - Charles J.C. Lyall

'Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.' - Michelangelo

'If you steal from one, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.' - Wilson Mizner

'Trend is not destiny.' - Lewis Mumford

'Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.' - Edward Morrow

'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.' - George Orwell

'Chance favors the trained mind.' - Loius Pasteur

'What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.' - Plato

'Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.' - Ronald Reagan

'If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.' - Jules Renard

'Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.' - Will Rogers

1 comment:

glaabenhiemer said...

when I was a small child I heard the quote ;-
"a good general will use a loss to his advantage"
and have been trying to find out who said it ever since. Does anyone know?

ps, Pasteur said;- "...the prepared mind". yes I've been told lately thank you