"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."
~~~~~ Ariel Durant
Friday, May 10, 2013
Thought for Today
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Thought for Today
"I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am."
~~~~~ Henry J. Kaiser
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Thought for Today
"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth."
~~~~~ Joseph Joubert
Monday, May 6, 2013
Thought for Today
"The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods."
~~~~~ Ludwig Borne
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Thought for Today
"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."
~~~~~ Soren Kierkegaard
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Thought for Today
"The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."
~~~~~ Horace Mann
Friday, May 3, 2013
Thought for Today
"I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
~~~~~ Jacob August Riis
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Thought for Today
"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do."
~~~~~ Jerome K. Jerome
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Thought for Today
"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."
~~~~~ Joseph Addison
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)