J.B.S. Haldane
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.
Admit it, sport-utility-vehicle owners! It's shaped a little differently, but it's a station wagon! And you do not drive it across rivers! You drive it across the Wal-Mart parking lot!
Chance favors the prepared mind.
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. 'Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Happiness consists in activity. It is running stream, not a stagnant pool. limo rental los angeles
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and…
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right…
I think; therefore I am.
'Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.
Faith is not only in the heart; it should be put into words.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
It's going to be the ballot or the bullet.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to…
God is clever, but not dishonest.
The greatness of our country has been based on our thinking that everyone has a right even to be wrong.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear…
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. carpet cleaning new york
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this…
If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it.
The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
She didn't reckon with the awesome power of the Chief of Police! Now where did I put my badge?...Hey, that duck's got it!
You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...no we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the…
What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.
Happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
My mind is my own church.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but stand there and take it.
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
My friends are my estate.
Why are people's ''deepest desires'' always so shallow?
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there…
The history of liberty is a history of limitation of government power, not the increase of it.
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
It is noble to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good - and less trouble.
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
I wrote a novel this year called
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
When American(s) ask for the cooperation of (their) fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will.
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual…
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.