- If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
(I have seen this attributed to Truman, as well)
- It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
- Music is the pleasure that the human soul encounters from counting without knowing that it is counting.
- To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
- It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- As I would not be a slave, so I will not be a master.
17.
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
-- John Donne (1572-1631), Meditation XVII
- If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
- My Country, right or wrong" is a thing no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober
- This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not be false to any man.
13.
The gods are amused when the busy river condemns the idle clouds
- Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
11.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
- Pain shared is lessened, joy shared, increased
The good old days. I was there. Where was they?
Moms Mabley 1894-1975
- All models are wrong but some are useful.
7.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
- That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.
- If I am not for myself, who is for me?
If not now, when?
Hillel
- Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little security shall soon have neither
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let each man march to his own rhythm, however measured, or far away
There is nothing so horrible in nature as to see a beautiful theory murdered by an ugly gang of facts
Benjamin Franklin
and, my favorite
1.
Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried abut our own souls, and other people's bellies
Rabbi Israel Salanter 1810-1883
