Quotes

"The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little."
- William Jennings Bryan


"There's only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything."
- Vince Lombardi
 

 The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
- W. Winwood Reade


 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - -  Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
- Lyall Watson

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. 
- Buddha

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. 

- Denis Diderot, Supplement to Bougainville's 'Voyage,' 1796, French author, encyclopedist, & philosopher (1713 - 1784)   

 

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone. 

- Denis Diderot
 

 

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

-  Denis Diderot

The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

- Denis Diderot 

 

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

- Denis Diderot

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
-  Denis Diderot, Supplement to Bougainville's 'Voyage,' 1796