JACQUES GAUVIN, RELIGION

Quotes

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are. Noah Porter (1811 ~ 1892)

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. Henry C. Link

Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure. Bible, Old Testament Apocrypha

Of all afflictions, the worst is self~contempt. Berthold Auerbach (1812 ~ 1882)

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. Sydney Smith (1771 ~ 1845)

America is a country that doesn^t know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. Laurence J. Peter (1919 ~ 1988)

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, ^It all depends on me.^ Andre Gide (1869 ~ 1951)

Security is a kind of death. Tennessee Williams (1911 ~ 1983)

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. Marquis de Condorcet (1743 ~ 1794)

I find nothing more depressing than optimism. Paul Fussell

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Mark Twain (1835 ~ 1910)

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. H. L. Mencken (1880 ~ 1956)

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself. Jean Anouilh (1910 ~ 1987)

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau (1817 ~ 1862)

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. Henri Poincare (1854 ~ 1912)

Committee~~a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. Fred Allen (1894 ~ 1956)

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. Moliere (1622 ~ 1673)

Humankind cannot stand very much reality. T. S. Eliot (1888 ~ 1965)

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. Maya Angelou (1928 ~ )

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world. Henry David Thoreau (1817 ~ 1862)

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. Miss Piggy

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. George Eliot (1819 ~ 1880)

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams (1744 ~ 1818), 1780

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. Ingrid Bengis

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. George Burns (1896 ~ 1996)

Be gentle with the young. Juvenal (55 AD ~ 127 AD)

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. Benjamin Franklin (1706 ~ 1790)

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. Sir Francis Bacon (1561 ~ 1626)

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Sir Francis Bacon (1561 ~ 1626)

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. Sir Francis Bacon (1561 ~ 1626)

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Sir Francis Bacon (1561 ~ 1626)

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. Walter Bagehot (1826 ~ 1877)

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. Walter Bagehot (1826 ~ 1877)

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. Walter Bagehot (1826 ~ 1877), ^Biographical Studies^, 1863

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein (1879 ~ 1955)

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself. Oscar Levant (1906 ~ 1972)

If you make it plain you like people, it^s hard for them to resist liking you back. Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one^s self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. Joseph Addison (1672 ~ 1719), The Spectator, March 17, 1911

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington (1732 ~ 1799)

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. Lao~tzu (604 BC ~ 531 BC), The Way of Lao~tzu

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. Enrico Fermi (1901 ~ 1954)

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. Albert Einstein (1879 ~ 1955), ^Out of My Later Years,^ 1950

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. Albert Einstein (1879 ~ 1955)

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein (1879 ~ 1955)

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. Albert Einstein (1879 ~ 1955)

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. Albert Einstein (1879 ~ 1955)

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein (1879 ~ 1955)

Imagination is more important than knowledge... Albert Einstein (1879 ~ 1955)

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard (1856 ~ 1915)

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. Elbert Hubbard (1856 ~ 1915)