E-LIST Quote Archives
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February 23, 2003
"With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on
which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by
act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence
that is the true home of the spirit of humanity." -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
February 14, 2003
"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it." -- Eleanor
Roosevelt (1884-1962)
February 8, 2003
"History has consequences, but it need have no permanent franchise on
the future." -- Prof. John Fleming (Daily Princetonian, 10/24/02)
January 31, 2003
"Just enough is more." -- Milton Glaser
January 23, 2003
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."
-- Albert Einstein
January 16, 2003
"The earth laughs in flowers." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
January 8, 2003
"I always say ... keep a diary, and someday it will keep you." -- Mae
West
December 31, 2002
"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully
upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."
-- Alexander Graham Bell
December 27, 2002
"There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination."
-- Roald Dahl, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
December 21, 2002
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change
your attitude. Don't complain." -- Maya Angelou
December 17, 2002
"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed."
--Sebastien Roch Nicholas Chamfort
November 30, 2002
"For 45 years of the Cold War we were in an arms race with the Soviet
Union. Now it appears we're in an arms race with ourselves." -- Admiral
Eugene Carroll, Jr., U.S. Navy (Ret.)
November 16, 2002
"Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it."
-- Lily Tomlin
November 6, 2002
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." -- Woodrow
Wilson
October 31, 2002
"Give a man a fish and you have given him a meal; teach him how to fish
and you have given him a livelihood." -- Chinese proverb
October 10, 2002
The same poem segment as last week but a preferred translation:
"...
and, going to school, on the sidewalk's edge along the way,
I stepped on a stone, I did, so as not to recite that day -
here: see this stone, from up there? try as you might, you can't;
to show all this fine detail - there is no such instrument."
-- Miklós Radnóti, written in 1944 a few months before his
death
October 4, 2002
From one of my favorite Hungarian poems, a timely quote in times of
war:
"and on my way to school, by the kerbside to postpone
a spot-test one certain morning, I stepped upon a stone:
look! there's the stone whose magic the pilot cannot see,
no instrument would merge it in his topography."
-- Miklós Radnóti, written in 1944 a few months before his
death
The full poem is here:
http://www.bajabela.sulinet.hu/tubi/iearn/war/radnotie.htm
Although no translation will capture the original:
http://www.bajabela.sulinet.hu/tubi/iearn/war/radnoti.htm
September 20, 2002
"It's hard enough to understand art. But it's almost impossible to
understand critics!"
-- Professor Jim Henle, Math 101: Mathematics as Art (Smith College)
September 8, 2002
"It's hard enough to understand art. But it's almost impossible to
understand critics!"
-- Professor Jim Henle, Math 101: Mathematics as Art (Smith College)
August 30, 2002
"A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature." -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
August 22, 2002
"Attention is the greatest form of generosity." -- Simone Weil
August 9, 2002
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men
of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." -- Justice Louis
Brandeis
August 4, 2002
"You don't have to like me for who I am/ but we'll see what you're made
of by what you make of me." -- Ani DiFranco
July 28, 2002
"The publication of poor science is easily rejected by good
periodicals. Solid and reliable, but mediocre papers may have the safest
sailing through the peer review process. It is noteworthy how often people
find it difficult to have their (eventually) Nobel Prize-winning papers
accepted for publication in the most prestigious journals." -- for more
(e.g. examples of this) see Istvan Hargittai, The Road to Stockholm
http://www.roadtostockholm.com"
July 22, 2002
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working." -- Pablo Picasso
July 12, 2002
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a
yellow spot into the sun." -- Pablo Picasso
July 6, 2002
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." -- Woodrow
Wilson
June 29, 2002
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand." -- Albert Einstein
June 27, 2002
"Believing in something just because it is popular is lazy. Believing
in something just because it's unpopular is lame." -- Alison Greenwald
June 20, 2002
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand." -- Albert Einstein
June 13, 2002
"Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its
strength." -- Corrie Ten Boom
June 6, 2002
"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat
you with experience." - from Dilbert quotes
May 28, 2002
"If you think you are too small to make a difference,
try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito..." African Proverb
May 21, 2002
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when you
grow up." -- Pablo Picasso
May 16, 2002
"A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at
explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
May 9, 2002
"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
-- Yoda, Star Wars
May 4, 2002
"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are." -- Confucius
April 27, 20002
"Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than
truth."
-- Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
April 24, 2002
Today's quote:
"I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering." -- Steven Wright
April 15, 2002
"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable
gift and not as a hard duty." -- Albert Einstein
April 9, 2002 - Yom Hashoah
"Writing isn't an occupation, but a duty. I write as much to understand as
to be understood." -- Elie Wiesel
April 8, 2002
"Society is like a public pool. Most people want it clean and most people
piss in it." -- Unknown (I found this years ago and haven't been able to
track it down since.. any thoughts?)
March 26, 2002
"If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written
yet, then you must write it." -- Toni Morrison
March 21, 2002 - Special Issue on Educational
Resources
"It is not so very important for a person to learn facts.
For that he does not really need a college. He can
learn them from books. The value of an education in a
liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts
but the training of the mind to think something that
cannot be learned from textbooks."
-- Albert Einstein, 1921, on Thomas Edison's opinion
that a college education is useless; quoted in
Frank, Einstein: His Life and Times, p.185.
March 18, 2002
"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy
for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings." -- Helen Keller
March 7, 2002 (including good hotel rates)
"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to
unlearn." -- Gloria Steinem (Smith College:) Class of '56)
March 3, 2002
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." -- Ambrose Bierce
February 21, 2002
"What is hateful to you, do not do to others." -- Hillel
February 17, 2002
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
-- Albert Einstein in E. T. Bell, Mathematics, Queen and Servant of
Science, 1952.
February 7, 2002
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
-- from Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
February 3, 2002
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. " -- Yoda (The Empire Strikes Back)
January 29, 2002
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world." -- Albert Einstein (I'd appreciate
help with the origins of this quote.)
January 26, 2002
"The most successful ideological effects are those which have
no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence."
-- Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), Outline of a Theory of Practice
January 20, 2002
"Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the
world." -- Gustave Flaubert
January 11, 2002
"The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger
ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the
essential exchange of information." -- Howard Brenton & David Hare's Pravda
January 7, 2002
The quote was:
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they
have exhausted all other alternatives."
-- Abba Eban, Heritage: Civilization and the Jews. Summit Books Simon
and Schuster, NY, 1984, p. 332.
The context:
"The best hope is that the principles that enabled a breakthrough to
peace with Egypt will assert themselves in a wider context. Men
and nations sometimes behave wisely once they have exhausted other
alternatives. In the Middle East outside the Egyptian-Israeli
relationship, almost every alternative has been tried; wars, sieges,
blockades, cease-fires, armistices, terrorism, oil embargoes, Great Power
pressures, Un resolutions. Peace is the only thing that has not been
tried. The road seems open for the adventure of peace."
Above the text are two pictures. One, in color, is Sadaat and Begin
clasping hands at the White House while Jimmy Carter looks on; the other,
in black and white, is a young looking Yasir Arafat.
January 2, 2002
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they
have exhausted all other alternatives.
-- Abba Eban
December 27, 2001
"If we don't change direction,
we'll end up where we're headed."
-- Chinese proverb
Correction to the last issue's quote (thanks to my Mom):
"Research is to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has
thought."
(Szentgyörgyi, Albert, Bioenergetics, Academic Press, New York,
1957).
December 21, 2001
"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and
thinking something different."
--Albert Szent-Györgyi
(http://www.hpo.hu/inventor/eszgyalb.html)