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Quotes
 Although
nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for
us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this
to proceed to investigate the reason.
Anyone
who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his
intelligence; he is just using his memory.
As
a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy
death.
Common
Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Every
now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back
to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because
then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance
and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
Experience
does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not
in her power.
For
once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes
turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to
return.
He
who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship
without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Human
subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or
more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is
lacking and nothing is superfluous.
I
have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we
must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
I
have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality
it should have.
I
love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from
distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little
minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience
approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
In
rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the
first of that which comes; so with present time.
Iron
rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so
does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
It
had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely
sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to
things.
Just
as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Life
is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more
of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do
something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Life
well spent is long.
Marriage
is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling
out an eel.
Men
of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Nothing
strengthens authority so much as silence.
Our
life is made by the death of others.
People
react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but
it's true.
Simplicity
is the ultimate sophistication.
The
art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive,
that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of
the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.
The
function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the
genitals and the tongue.
The
human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
The
noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
The
poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible
things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
There
shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some
other.
Water
is the driving force of all nature.
When
once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your
eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always
long to return.
Where
the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
While
I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to
die.
Who
sows virtue reaps honor.
Why
does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination
when awake?
You
do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not
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