Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 88 Experimentation quotesExperimentation QuotesExperimentation Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do – it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available, not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas, silly ideas, and yes, even dangerous or wicked ideas.~ Graceanne A. Decandido We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.~ Max DePree Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.~ John Dewey Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.~ Benjamin Disraeli I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.~ Thomas A. Edison Restless is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress.~ Thomas A. Edison The important thing is never to stop questioning.~ Albert Einstein Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.~ Bergan Evans Moderation in all things -- including moderation.~ Benjamin Franklin Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.~ Robert Frost I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.~ Margaret Fuller In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.~ Galileo Galilei I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.~ Galileo Galilei Humanity's most valuable assets have been the non-conformists. Were it not for the non-conformists, he who refuses to be satisfied to go along with the continuance of things as they are, and insists upon attempting to find new ways of bettering things, the world would have known little progress, indeed.~ Josiah William Gitt A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.~ Jo Godwin All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You miss 100% of the shots you never take.~ Wayne Gretzky Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.~ Bernhard Haisch Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print