Quotes 101 till 120 of 495.
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Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'
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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.
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Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
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Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
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Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
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First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
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First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.
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Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.
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For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 7 min 25 sec -
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
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