Some thought provoking quotes.

More to be added soon...

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

[The Life of Reason, vol.i. Ch.12]

"Our doubts are our traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

[Measure for Measure, Act i, Sc.5 in White, Singer and Knight]

"It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones. The hesitation of the latter arises in part from the fear of their adversaries, who have the laws on their side, and in part from the general skepticism of mankind which does not really believe in an innovation until experience proves its value. So it happens whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party are alike vulnerable."

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)

[ The Prince, Ch.6 p.15 Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. 1947]

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

"In research you need to keep hammering the problem over and over, otherwise it wouldn't be research, it would just be search."

G.S.

MIT

"The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable."

Confucius.

"Think 'til it hurts."

Lord Thomson

Secret of his success.

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

Johann W. von Goethe

"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."

Rene' Descartes.

"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Henry Adams.

The Education of Henry Adams.

"Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."

U.S. Constitution 1st Amendment 1791.

"The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say the things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say things which displease, the right to say the things which may convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong."

Samuel Gompers

Speech, Bucks Store case. 1908

"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."

Franklin P. Adams

"It takes two to lie... One to lie and one to listen."

Homer J. Simpson

The Simpsons