To be acknowledged, madam, is o'er-paid.
I have been asked to put online some of the quotes and anecdotes, I have collected. I've dithered about doing this, along the line of reasoning expressed by Oscar Wilde when he wrote,“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions, a quotation.”
Do you see how bad this has become? I am quoting someone who criticized people who quote! As the predictably wild Wilde's comment implies, I can be just about as derivative as the next guy.
But then, in some fashion, wasn't the sharing of thoughts, the point of publishing written work? If the intent were different, and not to influence thought, or to shape culture, or to share that, which must be "spoken aloud", then, would not publication be just an exercise in vanity? I'm thinking that Monsieur Wilde has missed the mark on this point. I am still thinking about that one.
I am reminded of what I see in the above, wonderful photo of Cetonia aurata . That which appears to be repetitive, or (if I may) to be derivative, is really and expression of Life itself. It is resplendent in the reality of its uniqueness, albeit, a variation on a theme, but evolved wonder, with the chance of even more evolutionary leaps, none-the-less.
So, here in no specific order is a collection from some of the work or just favorites of mine. The reason why there is no real order is because I like what a retail professional once confided to me. She told me that she deliberately mismatched ties and shirts, just to get people to "notice the goods". Yeah, I do like that.
Students may figure out that many of the quotes are included as they are obliquely linked to the ideas of our chemistry work - or goals of a true education. Some are funny, some are very serious. Some are stories, some are lessons. Some are matched, and others, mismatched, to get us thinking, and noticing the goods.
I have collected enough, to capture my own wonder, filling some 100 pages of print. These quotes are just a few from that collection, as not all of the quotations are appropriate for our work . Should they stay up, or come down? LMK.
Oh, by the way, about the title quote, just below the picture ... that is all Shakespeare. It is from my second favorite work of his, King Lear, delivered by the ever-devoted Earl of Kent to the ever-faithful Lady Cordelia. Don't even get me started about The Tempest!
Do you see how bad this has become? I am quoting someone who criticized people who quote! As the predictably wild Wilde's comment implies, I can be just about as derivative as the next guy.
But then, in some fashion, wasn't the sharing of thoughts, the point of publishing written work? If the intent were different, and not to influence thought, or to shape culture, or to share that, which must be "spoken aloud", then, would not publication be just an exercise in vanity? I'm thinking that Monsieur Wilde has missed the mark on this point. I am still thinking about that one.
I am reminded of what I see in the above, wonderful photo of Cetonia aurata . That which appears to be repetitive, or (if I may) to be derivative, is really and expression of Life itself. It is resplendent in the reality of its uniqueness, albeit, a variation on a theme, but evolved wonder, with the chance of even more evolutionary leaps, none-the-less.
So, here in no specific order is a collection from some of the work or just favorites of mine. The reason why there is no real order is because I like what a retail professional once confided to me. She told me that she deliberately mismatched ties and shirts, just to get people to "notice the goods". Yeah, I do like that.
Students may figure out that many of the quotes are included as they are obliquely linked to the ideas of our chemistry work - or goals of a true education. Some are funny, some are very serious. Some are stories, some are lessons. Some are matched, and others, mismatched, to get us thinking, and noticing the goods.
I have collected enough, to capture my own wonder, filling some 100 pages of print. These quotes are just a few from that collection, as not all of the quotations are appropriate for our work . Should they stay up, or come down? LMK.
Oh, by the way, about the title quote, just below the picture ... that is all Shakespeare. It is from my second favorite work of his, King Lear, delivered by the ever-devoted Earl of Kent to the ever-faithful Lady Cordelia. Don't even get me started about The Tempest!
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I have an historical, a cultural, and a moral obligation to give back something to my country. So I became a teacher . (Vartan Gregorian from an interview with Bill Moyers A World of Ideas)
You can love me, but I must make me happy.
You can promote me, but I must succeed.
You can teach me, but I must provide the understanding.
You can coach me, but I must win the game.
You can lead me, but I must walk the path.
You can pity me, but I must bear my sorrow.
For the gift of love is not a food that feeds me.
It is the sunlight that nourishes what I must finally harvest for myself
If you love me, don't just sing me your song.
Teach me to sing.
For when I am alone, it is then that I will need the melody (U.N. Owen :-)
Don't learn the tricks of the trade....learn the trade (U.N. Owen :-)
Not every lock is opened by the same key. (Giovanni Guareschi : The Little World of Don Camillo)
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors. (LBJ)
It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new. (Sophia Loren)
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. (Michel de Montaigne Essays [bk. I, ch. XXIV])
The object of liberal education in youth is not to teach the young all they will ever need to know. It is to give them the habits, ideas and techniques that they need to continue to educate themselves (Robert Maynard Hutchins: The Conflict of Education in a Democratic Society Harper & Brothers 1953)
It is the problem of education is to make the pupil see the wood by means of the trees. (Alfred North Whitehead from: The Aims of Education Macmillan Publishing 1929)
The mind has two little tools, grammar, and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world's work. With these we try to save our very lives...There are few more things to tell from this level...One, is the old joke about breakfast. "It can never be satisfied, the mind, never." Wallace Stevens wrote that, and in the long run he was right. The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God. The mind's sidekick (the stomach), however, will settle for two eggs over easy. (Annie Dillard from Teaching a Stone to Talk)
There's a beautiful passage in King Lear, where the outraged king has just finished calling on the hurricanes to shatter the world. Having cried out his anger, he turns to behold his Fool shivering in the rain...... "Come on, my boy. How dost, my boy? Art cold? I am cold myself...Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart that's sorry yet for thee." And so they take shelter.... How often, too, the teacher who has just raged at "ingrateful man" and the "thick rotundity" of our educational system turns to behold a wet, shivering student. My boy, we are both cold in this place called school. And I have one part in my heart...(Garret Keizer No Place But Here)
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past (Thomas Jefferson in a letter to John Adams 1816)
Hope and curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. That’s the way I was. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is. (Hedy Lamarr 1913-2000)
I've over-educated myself in all things I shouldn't have known at all. (Noel Coward)
For many students, doing swallows up learning. Even staying aware of what we are doing does not itself create learning. Learning is a purposeful activity, although not a complicated one. "Recognizing the necessary role of reflection in excavating learning from experience and becoming familiar with the basic elements of a reflective practice will allow practitioners," in this case students, "to begin to act on the notion that knowledge is embedded in the experience of their work, and to realize the importance of this knowledge in furthering their practice," or studies (Joy Amulya (2003). What is reflective practice? Learning for Innovation website: http://www.learningforinnovation.com
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice. (William Makepeace Thackeray … Vanity Fair Chapter 2)
There is no education in a second kick from a mule.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. GBS Maxims for Revolutionists
I must study war and politics so that my children may study math and science so that their children may study art, poetry, and music. (John Adams)
There are only two creatures of value on the face of this earth; those with a commitment and those who require the commitment of others. (John Adams)
Imagination without energy is inert. (John Russo Straight Man)
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. (Rollo May "The Nature of Creativity: In H.H. Anderson ed.' Creativity and its Cultivation, p 31. New York: Harper and Bros. 1959)
All the works of people have their origin in creative fantasy. What right, have we then to depreciate imagination? (Carl Jung)
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. (Eric Hoffer)
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. (J.G. Holland)
Things do not change; we change. (Henry David Thoreau)
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. (Charles Du Bos)
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. (Aristotle)
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. (Michel de Montaigne)
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. (Michel de Montaigne)
One must draw back in order to leap better. (Michel de Montaigne Essays (bk. I, ch. XXXVIII)
That’s like saying that you’ve crossed the ocean, except for the wet part. (From the movie, Hills of Home)
We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat! (Bernard Baruch)
Figures don't lie, but liars sure can figure. (C.H. Grosvenor)
Violence never settles anything. (Genghis Khan)
May I come here and visit sometimes? Of course you can, it’s your home too. There are people here who love you. (Paul Henreid answered by Bette Davis in Now Voyager)
The brain is as strong as its weakest think! (E. Doan)
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, any experimental organism will do as it damn well pleases. (Harvard Law)
I decided that I would make my life my argument. I would advocate the things I believed in, in terms of the life I live and what I did. (Albert Schweitzer Letter to Norman Cousins, 1958)
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. (Helen Keller)
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. (Helen Keller)
Never place a period where God has placed a comma. (Gracie Allen, Comedienne)
Don't just live the length of your life, live the width of it as well. (Diane Akerman)
Go Far. (Anita Apostle, my Latin teacher, written to me in my high school yearbook)
If you were born without wings do nothing to prevent them from growing. (Coco Chanel ... donated by Paula Ranous from Oswego CSD)
I didn't have the best thing, which is class - which means an old family tree with all its early rough graspy roots buried deep down in the past where nobody has to look at them. And I didn't have the second-best thing, which is looks - because the hard fact is, resembling young Abe Lincoln is no asset at a high-school sock hop. But I had the third thing, which is brains. So I was lucky enough to learn how to see where the light was, and where to look around for the switch. (Time's Witness M. Malone)
Not everything that can be counted, counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. (William Bruce Cameron)
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. (John A. Shedd: Salt In My Attic or possibly, Grace Murray Hopper)
The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regret are those over ourselves. (Napoleon)
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. (David Lloyd George)
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. (Goethe)
Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond your mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for a person to do...assume that it must fall within your own capacity (Marcus Aurelius from Meditations)
They build too low who build beneath the skies. (Edward Young, Night Thoughts, "Night," viii, 215 inscribed of the wall of the 2nd floor staircase; Great Hall; Library of Congress)
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. (Michelangelo)
I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities. (John Robinson)
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. (Harriet Braiker)
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. (Wayne Gretsky)
You have a 100% probability that you will not score on the shots that you do not take (Wayne Gretsky)
Every saint has a past, every sinner, a future. (Oscar Wilde ... from Lady Windermere's Fan)
Rule #1: To most rules, there is at least one exception ...including Rule #1. (F. T. Di Gaetano)
Rule #2: You can know what something is, but what it is not. (F. T. Di Gaetano)
Rule #3: The idea is not about being childish ... it's about being childlike. (F. T. Di Gaetano)
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. (Hannah More)
Perhaps there are shadows, so that the light may be better emphasized. (Pope John XXIII)
(If there are shadows, perhaps it is to better emphasize the light. (Pope John XXIII))
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough ... What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. (Katherine Mansfield)
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be wished for, it is something to be attained. (W.J. Bryant)
If you are going through hell...Keep going. (Winston Churchill)
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong.” (Sydney J. Harris)
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. (Jim Rohn)
I am necessary in my place as an Archangel in his...I have a part in this great work...I am a link in a chain; a bond of connection between persons (Cardinal John Newman from Meditations and Devotions) (see "Meditations and Devotions" for the entire quote)
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. (R. Bach)
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. (Alex Haley)
If you set out to create a real change, and there are no struggles or reversals, then you've changed really nothing (R. Kendall)
There are no strangers here, only friends we have not yet met. (Samuel Pepys)
Where words fail…music speaks. (U.N. Owen :-)
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. (Leopold Stravinsky)
All life is pattern. But we can't always see the pattern when we're part of it. (Belva Plain)
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over again (Edna St. Vincent Milay)
Life isn't all beer and skittles, few of us have touched a skittle in years (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. (La Mance)
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live (Francoise Sagan)
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you (Joseph Joubert)
Don't ask to live in tranquil times, for literature doesn't grow there (R.M. Brown)
Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be. (Karen Ravn)
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. (J. Brotherton)
Everybody has a story...and a scream. (Rachael Roberts, actress)
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. (Oscar Wilde from Lady Windermere’s Fan said by Lord Darlington)
My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are. (Michel de Montaigne "Of the Art of Conferring," bk. 3, ch. 8, Essays)
Failure is a stranger to me. Enthusiasm and imagination can carry you anywhere you want to go, without Vuitton luggage. (Kay Thompson)
I've discovered the secret of life. A lot of hard work, a lot of sense of humor, a lot of joy and a whole lot of tra la la. (Kay Thompson)
A person can fail many times, but they are not really a failure until they start to blame someone else. (John Burroughs)
...this brash and noble container of dreams, this muse to artists and inventors and entrepreneurs, this beacon of optimism, this dynamo of energy, this trumpet blare of liberty. (Peter Jennings ’38-05 in a toast re: USA from NY Times article 8 August 05)
By nothing do people show their character more than by the things they laugh at. (Goethe)
...And once you have cut down every tree in the thicket of Law, to get at the Devil, where will you hide then, when the Devil turns on you? (Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seasons)
In America, anyone can become President. That's one of the risks you take. (Adlai Stevenson)
Any car will last a lifetime - if you are careless enough. (U.N. Owen ... a la Agatha Christie :-)
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. (Charles Peguy; author)
Only the mediocre are always at their best. (Somerset Maugham)
Mediocrity is excellence - to the mediocre (J. Joubert)
The price of greatness is responsibility. (Churchill)
Men occasionally stumble over truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. (Churchill)
One of the greatest labor saving devices of today, is tomorrow.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. (Henry Ford)
To have one hundred dollars and make it into one hundred and ten dollars, this is work. To have one hundred million dollars and make it into one hundred and ten million dollars, this is inevitable. (“The Barefoot Contessa” 1954 delivered by actor Marius Goring)
I wish there were some credit you can have in the bank … but the fact is, the minute you say yes to a job, you've got to do it right. (Tom Hanks)
A person who makes no mistakes, generally makes nothing. (Edward Phelps)
The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself. (Jacob Bronowski)
I don't like it and I'm sorry I had anything to do with it (E. Schrodinger, on orbital (quantum mechanical) theory)
Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics! (Wolfgang Pauli in a letter to R. Kronig, 25 May 1925)
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it (Niels Bohr)
God does not play dice. (Albert Einstein)
Stop telling God what to do. (Niels Bohr)
Not only does God play dice, He sometimes throws them where we can't see them (Steven Hawking)
The more I think about the physical portion of Schrödinger's theory, the more repulsive I find it...What Schrödinger writes about the visualizability of his theory 'is probably not quite right,' in other words it's crap. (Werner Heisenberg, writing to Wolfgang Pauli, 1926
You're an old timer if you can remember when "setting the world on fire" was a figure of speech. (F.P. Jones)
We hold these truths to be self-evident: All men could be cremated equal (V. Partlow)
We knew then and there that we were making the decision to give our work to the world - with no hope of making money from it. (Marie Curie on refusing to patent her discoveries)
Just as a house is made of stones, so too is science made of facts, but a pile of stones is not a house, and a pile of facts is not a science. (paraphrase of work by Henri Poincaré)
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. (Martin H. Fischer)
Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding. (Samuel Johnson from Boswell's: Life of Samuel Johnson 1791)
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. (Niels Bohr)
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough (Niels Bohr)
Ego is married to creativity, ambition and aggression are wed to the drive to discover. The creative mind is possessed by angels and devils. The angels offer transcendence, they capture the inspirational moment and make diamonds from the dust; the devils look across the laboratory bench and whisper of ambition, offer challenges, and spur rivalry; each group plays its part. (Michael White Acid Tongues and Tranquil Dreamers)
We ... enjoy the choice of finding the best or worst of (these) other voices within us. The orators, artists, beasts and angels of our nature await their chance. (John Rennie editor's note; Sci. Am. July 1998)
Scientific discovery is based upon the excitement of argument. The scientist argues with Nature. The scientist says: This is what I think, now let's see if it's true. If the idea is shown to be false, then the scientist rethinks, reworks, and tries again; experiment follows experiment until ideas and observation coalesce. (Michael White Acid Tongues and Tranquil Dreamers)
I have declared infinite worlds to exist beside this our earth. It would not be worthy of God to manifest Himself in less than an infinite universe. (Giordano Bruno)
Have holy curiosity. (Albert Einstein)
Common sense is a collection of prejudices acquired by age 18. (Albert Einstein)
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. (Albert Einstein)
The law that entropy always increases — the second law of thermodynamics — holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell’s equations, well, then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation — well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But, if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation. Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (1928)
Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, it doesn't bother you anymore. Arnold Sommerfeld, when asked why he had never written a book on the subject (c.1950)
It is often said that Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, did for chemistry what Isaac Newton did for physics, and Charles Darwin for biology. He transformed it from a collection of disparate facts, into a science with unified principles (U.N. Owen :-) donated by D. Lubitz Class of 2015)
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. Together they make a placid and nonpoisonous material, table salt. Why each of these substances has the properties it does is a subject called chemistry. Carl Sagan Broca's Brain: The Romance of Science (1979)
When the Civil War ended, the West was still a region of great wildness, a fact that had earned it the nickname "The Great Plains." In this rough, untamed environment had emerged the cowboy, a hard-ridin straight-shootin rig-snortin cow-punchin' breed o hombre who was to become the stuff of several major cigarette promotions. To this day you can walk up to any schoolchild and mention one of those legendary Old West names - Wyatt Earp, "Wild Bill" Hickock, Gary Cooper, Luke Skywalker - and chances are the kid, as taught to do , will scream for help, and you will be arrested on suspicion of being a pervert. So maybe you better just take our word for it.... Nevertheless, the West was gradually being settled. The federal government had acquired assorted western territories like Utah through treaties with the Native American inhabitants under which the United States got the land and the Native Americans got a full thirty minutes head start before the army came after them. In 1889 the U.S. government opened up the Oklahoma territory, which resulted in the famous "Oklahoma land rush", as thousands of would-be settlers came racing in to look around, resulting in the famous "rush to get the hell back out of Oklahoma"....Another important acquisition was made in 1867 when Secretary of State, Seward Folly purchased Alaska for $7 million , which at the time seemed like a lot of money but which today we recognize as being about one third the cost of a hotel breakfast in Anchorage. Alaska was originally a large place located way the hell up past Canada, but this proved to be highly inconvenient for map makers, who in 1873 voted to make it smaller and put it in a little box next to Hawaii right off the coast of California, which is where it is today. ( Dave Barry Slept Here)
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron. (Lee Trevino)
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. (Bob Hope)
Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards? (Al Boliska)
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. (Bob Hope)
There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one whom I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. (J. Erskine)
I flunked out of school because I cheated on my metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the kid next to me. (Woody Allen)
Opportunity knocks once - but temptation leans on the doorbell. (Mae West)
I can resist anything - but temptation (Mae West)
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. (Mae West)
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except, his memory (F.P. Jones)
She can hold a note longer than the Chase Manhattan Bank (Theater critic on Ethel Merman)
Insanity does not run in my family - It gallops! (James Herriot)
Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your kids. (S. Levenson)
Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. (Elizabeth Stone)
There would be songs that emptied your glass and called you to your feet. Songs that led you to leap and alight in a manner that belied your age. Songs that made you reel and spin until you lost your bearings not only between the parlor and the salon, but between heaven and earth. (Amor Towles from "A Gentleman in Moscow")
S/He who will not reason is a bigot; s/he who cannot, is a fool; and s/he who dares not, is a slave. (Sir William Drummond)
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. (MLK)
And once you have cut down every tree in the thicket of Law, to get at the Devil, where will you hide then, when the Devil turns on you? (Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seasons)
More is not always better. Easier is not always Better. Faster in not always better (Fr. J. Poisson)
I have an historical, a cultural, and a moral obligation to give back something to my country. So I became a teacher . (Vartan Gregorian from an interview with Bill Moyers A World of Ideas)
You can love me, but I must make me happy.
You can promote me, but I must succeed.
You can teach me, but I must provide the understanding.
You can coach me, but I must win the game.
You can lead me, but I must walk the path.
You can pity me, but I must bear my sorrow.
For the gift of love is not a food that feeds me.
It is the sunlight that nourishes what I must finally harvest for myself
If you love me, don't just sing me your song.
Teach me to sing.
For when I am alone, it is then that I will need the melody (U.N. Owen :-)
Don't learn the tricks of the trade....learn the trade (U.N. Owen :-)
Not every lock is opened by the same key. (Giovanni Guareschi : The Little World of Don Camillo)
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors. (LBJ)
It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new. (Sophia Loren)
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. (Michel de Montaigne Essays [bk. I, ch. XXIV])
The object of liberal education in youth is not to teach the young all they will ever need to know. It is to give them the habits, ideas and techniques that they need to continue to educate themselves (Robert Maynard Hutchins: The Conflict of Education in a Democratic Society Harper & Brothers 1953)
It is the problem of education is to make the pupil see the wood by means of the trees. (Alfred North Whitehead from: The Aims of Education Macmillan Publishing 1929)
The mind has two little tools, grammar, and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world's work. With these we try to save our very lives...There are few more things to tell from this level...One, is the old joke about breakfast. "It can never be satisfied, the mind, never." Wallace Stevens wrote that, and in the long run he was right. The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God. The mind's sidekick (the stomach), however, will settle for two eggs over easy. (Annie Dillard from Teaching a Stone to Talk)
There's a beautiful passage in King Lear, where the outraged king has just finished calling on the hurricanes to shatter the world. Having cried out his anger, he turns to behold his Fool shivering in the rain...... "Come on, my boy. How dost, my boy? Art cold? I am cold myself...Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart that's sorry yet for thee." And so they take shelter.... How often, too, the teacher who has just raged at "ingrateful man" and the "thick rotundity" of our educational system turns to behold a wet, shivering student. My boy, we are both cold in this place called school. And I have one part in my heart...(Garret Keizer No Place But Here)
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past (Thomas Jefferson in a letter to John Adams 1816)
Hope and curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. That’s the way I was. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is. (Hedy Lamarr 1913-2000)
I've over-educated myself in all things I shouldn't have known at all. (Noel Coward)
For many students, doing swallows up learning. Even staying aware of what we are doing does not itself create learning. Learning is a purposeful activity, although not a complicated one. "Recognizing the necessary role of reflection in excavating learning from experience and becoming familiar with the basic elements of a reflective practice will allow practitioners," in this case students, "to begin to act on the notion that knowledge is embedded in the experience of their work, and to realize the importance of this knowledge in furthering their practice," or studies (Joy Amulya (2003). What is reflective practice? Learning for Innovation website: http://www.learningforinnovation.com
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice. (William Makepeace Thackeray … Vanity Fair Chapter 2)
There is no education in a second kick from a mule.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. GBS Maxims for Revolutionists
I must study war and politics so that my children may study math and science so that their children may study art, poetry, and music. (John Adams)
There are only two creatures of value on the face of this earth; those with a commitment and those who require the commitment of others. (John Adams)
Imagination without energy is inert. (John Russo Straight Man)
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. (Rollo May "The Nature of Creativity: In H.H. Anderson ed.' Creativity and its Cultivation, p 31. New York: Harper and Bros. 1959)
All the works of people have their origin in creative fantasy. What right, have we then to depreciate imagination? (Carl Jung)
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. (Eric Hoffer)
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. (J.G. Holland)
Things do not change; we change. (Henry David Thoreau)
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. (Charles Du Bos)
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. (Aristotle)
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. (Michel de Montaigne)
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. (Michel de Montaigne)
One must draw back in order to leap better. (Michel de Montaigne Essays (bk. I, ch. XXXVIII)
That’s like saying that you’ve crossed the ocean, except for the wet part. (From the movie, Hills of Home)
We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat! (Bernard Baruch)
Figures don't lie, but liars sure can figure. (C.H. Grosvenor)
Violence never settles anything. (Genghis Khan)
May I come here and visit sometimes? Of course you can, it’s your home too. There are people here who love you. (Paul Henreid answered by Bette Davis in Now Voyager)
The brain is as strong as its weakest think! (E. Doan)
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, any experimental organism will do as it damn well pleases. (Harvard Law)
I decided that I would make my life my argument. I would advocate the things I believed in, in terms of the life I live and what I did. (Albert Schweitzer Letter to Norman Cousins, 1958)
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. (Helen Keller)
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. (Helen Keller)
Never place a period where God has placed a comma. (Gracie Allen, Comedienne)
Don't just live the length of your life, live the width of it as well. (Diane Akerman)
Go Far. (Anita Apostle, my Latin teacher, written to me in my high school yearbook)
If you were born without wings do nothing to prevent them from growing. (Coco Chanel ... donated by Paula Ranous from Oswego CSD)
I didn't have the best thing, which is class - which means an old family tree with all its early rough graspy roots buried deep down in the past where nobody has to look at them. And I didn't have the second-best thing, which is looks - because the hard fact is, resembling young Abe Lincoln is no asset at a high-school sock hop. But I had the third thing, which is brains. So I was lucky enough to learn how to see where the light was, and where to look around for the switch. (Time's Witness M. Malone)
Not everything that can be counted, counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. (William Bruce Cameron)
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. (John A. Shedd: Salt In My Attic or possibly, Grace Murray Hopper)
The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regret are those over ourselves. (Napoleon)
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. (David Lloyd George)
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. (Goethe)
Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond your mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for a person to do...assume that it must fall within your own capacity (Marcus Aurelius from Meditations)
They build too low who build beneath the skies. (Edward Young, Night Thoughts, "Night," viii, 215 inscribed of the wall of the 2nd floor staircase; Great Hall; Library of Congress)
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. (Michelangelo)
I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities. (John Robinson)
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. (Harriet Braiker)
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. (Wayne Gretsky)
You have a 100% probability that you will not score on the shots that you do not take (Wayne Gretsky)
Every saint has a past, every sinner, a future. (Oscar Wilde ... from Lady Windermere's Fan)
Rule #1: To most rules, there is at least one exception ...including Rule #1. (F. T. Di Gaetano)
Rule #2: You can know what something is, but what it is not. (F. T. Di Gaetano)
Rule #3: The idea is not about being childish ... it's about being childlike. (F. T. Di Gaetano)
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. (Hannah More)
Perhaps there are shadows, so that the light may be better emphasized. (Pope John XXIII)
(If there are shadows, perhaps it is to better emphasize the light. (Pope John XXIII))
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough ... What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. (Katherine Mansfield)
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be wished for, it is something to be attained. (W.J. Bryant)
If you are going through hell...Keep going. (Winston Churchill)
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong.” (Sydney J. Harris)
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. (Jim Rohn)
I am necessary in my place as an Archangel in his...I have a part in this great work...I am a link in a chain; a bond of connection between persons (Cardinal John Newman from Meditations and Devotions) (see "Meditations and Devotions" for the entire quote)
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. (R. Bach)
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. (Alex Haley)
If you set out to create a real change, and there are no struggles or reversals, then you've changed really nothing (R. Kendall)
There are no strangers here, only friends we have not yet met. (Samuel Pepys)
Where words fail…music speaks. (U.N. Owen :-)
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. (Leopold Stravinsky)
All life is pattern. But we can't always see the pattern when we're part of it. (Belva Plain)
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over again (Edna St. Vincent Milay)
Life isn't all beer and skittles, few of us have touched a skittle in years (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. (La Mance)
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live (Francoise Sagan)
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you (Joseph Joubert)
Don't ask to live in tranquil times, for literature doesn't grow there (R.M. Brown)
Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be. (Karen Ravn)
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. (J. Brotherton)
Everybody has a story...and a scream. (Rachael Roberts, actress)
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. (Oscar Wilde from Lady Windermere’s Fan said by Lord Darlington)
My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are. (Michel de Montaigne "Of the Art of Conferring," bk. 3, ch. 8, Essays)
Failure is a stranger to me. Enthusiasm and imagination can carry you anywhere you want to go, without Vuitton luggage. (Kay Thompson)
I've discovered the secret of life. A lot of hard work, a lot of sense of humor, a lot of joy and a whole lot of tra la la. (Kay Thompson)
A person can fail many times, but they are not really a failure until they start to blame someone else. (John Burroughs)
...this brash and noble container of dreams, this muse to artists and inventors and entrepreneurs, this beacon of optimism, this dynamo of energy, this trumpet blare of liberty. (Peter Jennings ’38-05 in a toast re: USA from NY Times article 8 August 05)
By nothing do people show their character more than by the things they laugh at. (Goethe)
...And once you have cut down every tree in the thicket of Law, to get at the Devil, where will you hide then, when the Devil turns on you? (Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seasons)
In America, anyone can become President. That's one of the risks you take. (Adlai Stevenson)
Any car will last a lifetime - if you are careless enough. (U.N. Owen ... a la Agatha Christie :-)
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. (Charles Peguy; author)
Only the mediocre are always at their best. (Somerset Maugham)
Mediocrity is excellence - to the mediocre (J. Joubert)
The price of greatness is responsibility. (Churchill)
Men occasionally stumble over truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. (Churchill)
One of the greatest labor saving devices of today, is tomorrow.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. (Henry Ford)
To have one hundred dollars and make it into one hundred and ten dollars, this is work. To have one hundred million dollars and make it into one hundred and ten million dollars, this is inevitable. (“The Barefoot Contessa” 1954 delivered by actor Marius Goring)
I wish there were some credit you can have in the bank … but the fact is, the minute you say yes to a job, you've got to do it right. (Tom Hanks)
A person who makes no mistakes, generally makes nothing. (Edward Phelps)
The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself. (Jacob Bronowski)
I don't like it and I'm sorry I had anything to do with it (E. Schrodinger, on orbital (quantum mechanical) theory)
Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics! (Wolfgang Pauli in a letter to R. Kronig, 25 May 1925)
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it (Niels Bohr)
God does not play dice. (Albert Einstein)
Stop telling God what to do. (Niels Bohr)
Not only does God play dice, He sometimes throws them where we can't see them (Steven Hawking)
The more I think about the physical portion of Schrödinger's theory, the more repulsive I find it...What Schrödinger writes about the visualizability of his theory 'is probably not quite right,' in other words it's crap. (Werner Heisenberg, writing to Wolfgang Pauli, 1926
You're an old timer if you can remember when "setting the world on fire" was a figure of speech. (F.P. Jones)
We hold these truths to be self-evident: All men could be cremated equal (V. Partlow)
We knew then and there that we were making the decision to give our work to the world - with no hope of making money from it. (Marie Curie on refusing to patent her discoveries)
Just as a house is made of stones, so too is science made of facts, but a pile of stones is not a house, and a pile of facts is not a science. (paraphrase of work by Henri Poincaré)
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. (Martin H. Fischer)
Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding. (Samuel Johnson from Boswell's: Life of Samuel Johnson 1791)
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. (Niels Bohr)
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough (Niels Bohr)
Ego is married to creativity, ambition and aggression are wed to the drive to discover. The creative mind is possessed by angels and devils. The angels offer transcendence, they capture the inspirational moment and make diamonds from the dust; the devils look across the laboratory bench and whisper of ambition, offer challenges, and spur rivalry; each group plays its part. (Michael White Acid Tongues and Tranquil Dreamers)
We ... enjoy the choice of finding the best or worst of (these) other voices within us. The orators, artists, beasts and angels of our nature await their chance. (John Rennie editor's note; Sci. Am. July 1998)
Scientific discovery is based upon the excitement of argument. The scientist argues with Nature. The scientist says: This is what I think, now let's see if it's true. If the idea is shown to be false, then the scientist rethinks, reworks, and tries again; experiment follows experiment until ideas and observation coalesce. (Michael White Acid Tongues and Tranquil Dreamers)
I have declared infinite worlds to exist beside this our earth. It would not be worthy of God to manifest Himself in less than an infinite universe. (Giordano Bruno)
Have holy curiosity. (Albert Einstein)
Common sense is a collection of prejudices acquired by age 18. (Albert Einstein)
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. (Albert Einstein)
The law that entropy always increases — the second law of thermodynamics — holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell’s equations, well, then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation — well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But, if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation. Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (1928)
Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, it doesn't bother you anymore. Arnold Sommerfeld, when asked why he had never written a book on the subject (c.1950)
It is often said that Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, did for chemistry what Isaac Newton did for physics, and Charles Darwin for biology. He transformed it from a collection of disparate facts, into a science with unified principles (U.N. Owen :-) donated by D. Lubitz Class of 2015)
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. Together they make a placid and nonpoisonous material, table salt. Why each of these substances has the properties it does is a subject called chemistry. Carl Sagan Broca's Brain: The Romance of Science (1979)
When the Civil War ended, the West was still a region of great wildness, a fact that had earned it the nickname "The Great Plains." In this rough, untamed environment had emerged the cowboy, a hard-ridin straight-shootin rig-snortin cow-punchin' breed o hombre who was to become the stuff of several major cigarette promotions. To this day you can walk up to any schoolchild and mention one of those legendary Old West names - Wyatt Earp, "Wild Bill" Hickock, Gary Cooper, Luke Skywalker - and chances are the kid, as taught to do , will scream for help, and you will be arrested on suspicion of being a pervert. So maybe you better just take our word for it.... Nevertheless, the West was gradually being settled. The federal government had acquired assorted western territories like Utah through treaties with the Native American inhabitants under which the United States got the land and the Native Americans got a full thirty minutes head start before the army came after them. In 1889 the U.S. government opened up the Oklahoma territory, which resulted in the famous "Oklahoma land rush", as thousands of would-be settlers came racing in to look around, resulting in the famous "rush to get the hell back out of Oklahoma"....Another important acquisition was made in 1867 when Secretary of State, Seward Folly purchased Alaska for $7 million , which at the time seemed like a lot of money but which today we recognize as being about one third the cost of a hotel breakfast in Anchorage. Alaska was originally a large place located way the hell up past Canada, but this proved to be highly inconvenient for map makers, who in 1873 voted to make it smaller and put it in a little box next to Hawaii right off the coast of California, which is where it is today. ( Dave Barry Slept Here)
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron. (Lee Trevino)
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. (Bob Hope)
Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards? (Al Boliska)
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. (Bob Hope)
There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one whom I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. (J. Erskine)
I flunked out of school because I cheated on my metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the kid next to me. (Woody Allen)
Opportunity knocks once - but temptation leans on the doorbell. (Mae West)
I can resist anything - but temptation (Mae West)
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. (Mae West)
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except, his memory (F.P. Jones)
She can hold a note longer than the Chase Manhattan Bank (Theater critic on Ethel Merman)
Insanity does not run in my family - It gallops! (James Herriot)
Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your kids. (S. Levenson)
Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. (Elizabeth Stone)
There would be songs that emptied your glass and called you to your feet. Songs that led you to leap and alight in a manner that belied your age. Songs that made you reel and spin until you lost your bearings not only between the parlor and the salon, but between heaven and earth. (Amor Towles from "A Gentleman in Moscow")
S/He who will not reason is a bigot; s/he who cannot, is a fool; and s/he who dares not, is a slave. (Sir William Drummond)
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. (MLK)
And once you have cut down every tree in the thicket of Law, to get at the Devil, where will you hide then, when the Devil turns on you? (Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seasons)
More is not always better. Easier is not always Better. Faster in not always better (Fr. J. Poisson)