Thought for the day...

If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.

Professor: One who talks in someone else’s sleep.

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

What you don’t do is always more important than what you do do.

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

I may have my faults, but being wrong isn’t one of them.

Don’t go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

 

So much truth to the above! Thanks TBONE

 

We would be happy if we studied nature more in natural things, and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable. William Penn

The day, water, sun, moon, night—I do not have to purchase these things with money. Plautus

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. May Sarton

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. Lincoln

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite. Dan Quayle

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

 

If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. Thomas Jefferson

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. Gandhi

The trouble with people isn’t their ignorance—it’s the number of things they know that just ain’t so. Mark Twain

In the glance of the speechless animal there is a discourse that only the soul of the wise can really understand.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

 

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. (or anything at all)

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

When the solution is simple, God is probably answering.

 

Just a collection I've saved through the years. I love to from time to time just skimming through a few pages. Rather than a collection from one source or one theme I also pepper a few bits of humor in with the wisdom. Glad you and others like it.

Sooner or later I'm bound to run out though. But imagine how long that could take if I posted just one per day!

 

Te secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child’s entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books—a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.

When asked how World War III would be fought, Einstein replied that he didn’t know. But he knew how World War IV would be fought: With sticks and stones.

There are many people who do not know how to waste time alone; they are the scourge of busy people.

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T.S. Elliot

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

 

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the word to you. Mark Twain

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it. S. Leacock

It is not failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs. Confucius

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. Emerson