Today Quotes
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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Man has responsibility, not power.Tuscarora proverb
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.Hazlitt
Our aspirations are our possibilities.Samuel Johnson
Whatever you are, be a good one.Abraham Lincoln
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.John Mitchell Mason
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.Ursula K. LeGuin
You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough.Joe E. Lewis