Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-06-26 Jun 25, 2010Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinions, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.~ Alexander HamiltonHope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.~ Francis BaconExperience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.~ James Madison Jun 24, 2010Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.~ George WashingtonThe greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.~ Herbert SpencerMost new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.~ Isidor Issac Rabi Jun 23, 2010Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.~ Alexander HamiltonAmerica is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.~ Alistair CookeLiberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.~ Alistair Cooke Jun 22, 2010We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.~ Albert EinsteinAlmost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily distinguished from relaxing one's guard, which almost everyone thinks is bad. Relaxation, like Miltown, is not an end in itself. Not all danger comes from tension. The reverse relation, to be tense where there is danger, is only rational.~ Albert WohlstetterThe loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.~ Alexander Haig Jun 21, 2010Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.~ Benjamin DisraeliLittle strokes fell great oaks.~ Benjamin FranklinMan has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not much longer. Science, as a dominant factor in determining the belief of educated men, has existed for about 300 years; as a source of economic technique, for about 150 years. In this brief period it has proved itself an incredibly powerful revolutionary force. When we consider how recently it has risen to power, we find ourselves forced to believe that we are at the very beginning of its work in transforming human life.~ Bertrand Russell Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print