Wisdom To Start The Day,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Chris Ryser]

I believe in an open mind,.................................................

but not so open that your brains fall out.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger






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[Chris Ryser]

I don't know what your destiny will be,.....................................

but one thing I do know:.....................................

the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer






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[Chris Ryser]

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

Elbert Hubbard






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[Chris Ryser]

Women and cats will do as they please,......................................

and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein






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[Chris Ryser]

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view....................................................

or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception......................................

Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture?

David Bohm





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[Chris Ryser]

Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age. ................................

It occurs when you are too young to take up golf....................................

and too old to rush up to the net.

Franklin Pierce Adams, "Nods and Becks", "New England Primer", 1944





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[Chris Ryser]

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply.........................................

Willing is not enough; we must do."

Johann von Goethe





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[Chris Ryser]

"There are many ways of going forward,.........................................

but only one way of standing still."

Franklin D. Roosevelt







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[Chris Ryser]

"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. .............................................

Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."

Karl Kraus








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[Chris Ryser]

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, .......................................

but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.

John Forbes Nash






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[Chris Ryser]

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

Henry de Bracton, De Legibus, 1240






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[Chris Ryser]

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."

John Powell






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[Chris Ryser]

Take care that the face that looks out from the mirror in the morning is a pleasant face....................................................

You may not see it again during the day, but others will.


Anon.






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[Chris Ryser]

Wisdom is like electricity..........................................

There is no permanently wise man,.........................

but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions,......................................

become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Clubs," Society and Solitude, 1870

[Chris Ryser]

"As to diseases, make a habit of two things - .......................................

to help, or at least, to do no harm."

Hippocrates, Epidemics







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[Chris Ryser]

Without ambition one starts nothing.......................................

Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you...................................

You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job.........................................

The man who also knows why will always be his boss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson






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[HRubin68]

"The only effective way to do it, is to do it." -Amelia Erhardt :D

[Chris Ryser]

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible,............................

he is almost certainly right;..................................

but if he says that it is impossible,.................................

he is very probably wrong.

Arthur C. Clarke






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[Chris Ryser]

One finger cannot lift a pebble.

American Indian Proverb, Hopi






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[Chris Ryser]

The best way to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen.........................

is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.


Charles Austin Beard




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[Chris Ryser]

"The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order...................................................

that your ideas will upset."

Anthony D'Angelo





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[Chris Ryser]

At times to be silent is to lie..........................................

You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince.............................................

For to convince you need to persuade....................................

And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right.

-Miguel de Unamuno, in a confrontation with fascist General Milan-Astray, at the University of Salamanca






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[Chris Ryser]

"It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspeakably precious things:.........................................

freedom of speech,.....................................

freedom of conscience,................................

and the prudence never to practice either of them."

Mark Twain




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[Chris Ryser]

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel,..................................

and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Susan B. Anthony





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[Chris Ryser]

When a man's knowledge is not in order,...........................................

the more of it he has,.................................

the greater will be his confusion.

Herbert Spencer





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