Posted on April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 “He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”—Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC
Posted on April 16, 2021April 16, 2021 “It is not knowledge, but the act of learning; not possession, but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.”—Johann Gauss, German mathematician, 1777-1855
Posted on April 15, 2021April 15, 2021 “Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”—Jane Austen, British novelist, 1775-1817
Posted on April 12, 2021 “It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher & polymath, 384-322 BC
Posted on April 1, 2021 “Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love.”—Lew [Lewis] Wallace, American politician, 1827-1905
Posted on March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 “Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.”—George Scialabba, book critic, 1948-
Posted on March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 “Form follows function.”—Louis Henry Sullivan, American architect, 1856-1924
Posted on March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 “I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”—Socrates, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC
Posted on March 28, 2021March 28, 2021 “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”—Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, 1821-1880
Posted on March 27, 2021 “It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”—Thomas Huxley, Biologist, 1825-1895