Jul 12, 2005

quotes

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
--English Proverb

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
--Soren Kierkegaard

Wisdom is know what to do next; virtue is doing it.
--David Starr Jordan

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
--Anne Frank

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
--Mark Twain

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