Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
—Theophrastus (Greek Philosopher)
The curious thing is the righter you do the wrong thing the wronger you become. If you’re doing the wrong thing and you make a mistake and correct it you become wronger. So it’s better to do the right thing wrong than the wrong thing right. Almost every major social problem that confronts us today is a consequence of trying to do the wrong things righter.
—Russell L. Ackoff (American Management Consultant)
A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty and affliction, convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable.
—Joseph Addison (English Poet, Playwright, Politician)
If you love men and they are unfriendly, look into your love; if you rule men and they are unruly, look into your wisdom; if you are courteous to them and they do not respond, look into your courtesy. If what you do is vain, always seek within.
—Mencius (Chinese Philosopher, Sage)
If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters?
—Bernard Mandeville (British Writer)
Let thy vices die before thee.
—Benjamin Franklin (American Founding Father, Inventor)
The education provided must therefore encourage the development in each citizen of three things; an inquiring mind; and ability to learn from what others do, and reject or adapt it to his own needs; and a basic confidence in his own position as a free and equal member of the society, who values others and is valued by them for what he does and not for what he obtains.
—Julius Nyerere (Tanzanian Statesman)
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20-20 hindsight. It’s good for seeing where you’ve been. It’s good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can’t tell you where you ought to go.
—Robert M. Pirsig (American Writer)
One look before is better than two behind.
—Irish Proverb
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
—William Dean Howells (American Writer, Critic)
I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe (American Actor)