Erastus Flavel Beadle Famous Quotes



"Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person."

Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.


Erastus Flavel Beadle Quotations






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"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann

"Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits."
Robert Louis Stephenson

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
Fred Allen

"I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know."
Socrates

"Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part."
Michael J Gelb

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The less government we have the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
John Tudor