The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
-- da Vinci
Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you are right.
-- Henry Ford
The real purpose of the scientific method
is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you
into thinking you know something that you actually don't.
-- Robert Pirsig
He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile,
but he who is glad cannot weep.
-- Selma Lagerlof
There are three things extremely hard:
steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
-- Benjamin Franklin
The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
-- Franz Grillparzer
How can you say luck and chance are the same thing?
Chance is the first step you take,
luck is what comes afterwards.
-- Amy Tan
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
-- Elizabeth Goudge
Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations --
six if one went to Harvard.
-- Edgar R. Fielder
I learned that you shouldn't go through life
with a catchers mitt on both hands.
You need to be able to throw something back.
-- Maya Angelou
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It's not.
-- Dr. Seuss
