The fraction of life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your numerator as by lessening your denominator. Nay, unless my algebra deceives me, unity itself divided by zero will give infinity.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)
Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy , and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
—Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Indian Hindu Philosopher)
Wisely and slow;—they stumble that run fast.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)
Life is not holding a good hand; life is playing a poor hand well.
—Danish Proverb
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.
—Henry Ward Beecher (American Protestant Clergyman)
An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.
—Niels Bohr (Danish Physicist)
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
—Edith Wharton
An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.
—Niels Bohr (Danish Physicist)
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)
Charity sees the need, not the cause.
—German Proverb
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
—John Steinbeck (American Novelist)