Eric Mascall Famous Quotes
"A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind."
Eric Mascall Quotations
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
Aldous Huxley
"Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it."
William Penn
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
Henry David Thoreau
The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.
Jon Wynne Tyson
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister
"Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The real 196s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963....It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."
Lance Morrow
"What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough."
Eugene Delacroix
"I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
Isaac Newton
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...
Nelson Boswell