George Whitehead Famous Quotes
It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur.
George Whitehead Quotations
"The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire."
Tibetan Doctrine
"Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song."
Will Durant
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Scott Adams
"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
Maxim Gorky
"N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see."
Shaquille ONeal
"We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted."
H R Haldeman
"Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one --I am become Death,The shatterer of Worlds."
Hindu Spiritual
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
J K Rowling