Lord Billingsley Famous Quotes
"The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service."
"By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up."
How do you know so much about everything was asked of a very wise and intelligent man and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.
Lord Billingsley Quotations
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.
Eric Butterworth
"I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another"
Theodore Hesburgh
"Illegitimis non carborundum.Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down."
Gen Joseph Stilwell
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
David Reisman
"How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old"
Lois McMaster Bujold
"Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will"
Thomas a Kempis
"There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it."
Andrew Schneider
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley
"God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents."
Phyllis Mcginley
All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
David Ross Brower