Barbara McClintock Famous Quotes
"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... Regardless of what they say."
Barbara McClintock Quotations
"We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love."
William Hazlitt
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."
W Somerset Maugham
A person determined never to be wrong won't likely accomplish much.
Ken Wisdom
"Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men."
John Calvin
Enquire not what boils in another's pot.
Thomas Fuller
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
Dwight D Eisenhower
"It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour."
Vartan Gregorian
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
Harper Lee
I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
William Shakespeare