Kurt Herbert Alder Famous Quotes



Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success.

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.


Kurt Herbert Alder Quotations






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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus

"Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor."
Hesiod

Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.
Lu Yen

"The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway."
Lionel Richie

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
Bertrand Russell

"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none."
Edmund Burke

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
Bertrand Russell

"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever."
John Piper

The best ideas are common property.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment."
Learned Hand