Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page
|
Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
- Alvin Toffler
- You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
- Alvin Toffler
- There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.
- Fred Dehner
- Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity in the process.
- Arnold Horshak
|