G M Trevelyan Famous Quotes
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
G M Trevelyan Quotations
"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics."
Newt Gingrich
"Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one."
Jim Hightower
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
Nozick
"Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power."
Jeremy Taylor
The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.
David Searles
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
Fred Hoyle
"First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
Horace
All general statements are false.
Unknown
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
Friedrich Nietzsche