Al Batt Famous Quotes
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
Al Batt Quotations
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Charles F Kettering
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Henry Miller
"People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given."
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Samuel Smiles
"The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows and that all things are but aspects of one thing a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God 'No,' said Father Brown."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity."
R I Fitzhenry
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides
"It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - from Science and the Modern World"
Alfred North Whitehead
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Franklin D Roosevelt
It is always easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
US Marine Proverb