Quotes
Quotes about Men
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.
In vain we call old notions fudge And bend our conscience to our dealing. The Ten Commandments will not budge And stealing will continue stealing.
Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun; The sea's a thief, whose liquid surges resolves The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement.
The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still. . . must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!
Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists. - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
One thought fills immensity.
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
Go, go, good countrymen, and for this fault Assemble all the poor men of your sort; Draw them to the Tiber banks, and weep your tears Into the channel, till the lowest stream Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. [Fr., Le temps fuit, et nous traine avec soi: Le moment ou je parle est deja loin de moi.]
It is never too late to be what you might have been. â¢George Eliot It takes time to build a castle. â¢Irish Proverb A minute now is better than a minute later. â¢Anonymous Time is of the essence, but what is the essence of time? â¢Karan Varsheni Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. â¢Anonymous I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer. â¢Dan Quisenberry Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like an orange. â¢Unknown If you're not five minutes early, you're ten minutes late. â¢Anonymous To be on time is to be late. To be early is to be on time. â¢Tim Gunter The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. â¢Leo Kennedy Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? â¢Stoppard Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. â¢Berlioz One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. â¢Anonymous You may delay, but time will not. â¢Benjamin Franklin With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. â¢Chinese proverb Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. â¢Cheers You can never plan the future by the past. â¢Edmund Burke Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. â¢Roger Babson The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. â¢Paul Valery Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. â¢M Scott Peck Time is the fire in which we burn. â¢Gene Roddenberry You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. â¢Charles Buxton Time ripens all things. No man's born wise. â¢Cervantes Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon at the speed of light while rotating. Time is like that, except without the cannon and the donut. â¢Dilbert Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. â¢Will Rogers You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. â¢James Thurber Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. â¢Thomas Mann Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. â¢W N Taylor Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
, The Hidden Power of the Heart Each moment is a doorway to time travel. Being in this very moment and no other, time as we know it stops. You can Freeze-Frame and stop. Then you can make another choice. You can stay in the same holographic pattern or you can choose a different one. -Sara Paddison.
, The Hidden Power of the Heart Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what's real. -Sara Paddison.
, HeartMath Discovery Program Time pressure starts to subside when we shift to the heart to find quality of mood and ease. It's our unmanaged emotions that turn time into an opponent and make life a rat race. Managing time with the heart is the ultimate time management tool. -Doc Childre.
When you make an efficient choice in moments of indecision, you establish more effectiveness within a given time span, saving energy and stress. That's a time shift. Doc Childre - Women Lead With Their Hearts (a White Paper) The new paradigm is a joint venture between head and heart intelligence, which generates a continuity of intuitive creative intelligence. Intuition cuts time and effort. As you gain intuitive intelligence, you become more energy and time effective. Bruce Cockburn, "A Dream Like Mine" -Doc Childre.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.
Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.
