change your thoughts and you change your world.
--Norman Vincent Peale
it is far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to be put out on the troubled seas of thought.
---John Kenneth Galbraith
only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.
---Allan Goldfein
he dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
---James Gibbons Huneker
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
-----Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
-----Eden Phillpots
he dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
---James Gibbons Huneker
Wow!
I love this quote. I think this is spot on.
You can act like a fool, when you know you're not. It's only when you're acting like a fool and don't know it, is when it's bad.
Here's mine for the day:
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story
he dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
---James Gibbons Huneker
Wow!
I love this quote. I think this is spot on.
You can act like a fool, when you know you're not. It's only when you're acting like a fool and don't know it, is when it's bad.
Here's mine for the day:
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story
good one there.
keep them coming.
I will try to add more each day also.
quotes are cool. I use them in real life all the time.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
---Chinese Proverb
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-----Andrew Lang
Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people--which is why horses are admitted to race tracks at the age of two, and jockeys before they are old enough to shave.
----Dick Beddoes
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-----Andrew Lang
This is exactly how I feel about statistics. They tell you everything, but the most important data...the context in which such stats are accumulated and what was going on in the acquisition of those stats.
My quote for the day:
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain