Isaac Newton Famous Quotes
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
"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."
"I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me."
"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent."
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
"I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light."
Isaac Newton Quotations
"What is a committee A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary."
Richard Harkness
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Noel Adams
"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."
John Russell
"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Remember that time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Seneca
I have thought too much to stoop to action.
Adam De L Isle
What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
Joseph Campbell
"He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach."
Demosthenes