Humphrey Davy Famous Quotes
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
"Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown."
Humphrey Davy Quotations
"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away--and barefoot."
Sarah Jackson
"All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed."
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
Charles Dudley Warner
"Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
Francis Bacon
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair we had everything before us, we had nothing before us we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way."
Charles Dickens
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
Garrison Keillor
"Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it."
Mark Twain
"The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them-thus preserving the system."
Quentin
Activity is the only road to knowledge.
George Bernard Shaw