Notebooks

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. Umberto Eco

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. Unknown Author

The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist. Unknown Author

Tell a man there are 300 Billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure. Unknown Author

Learn from the mistakes of others, because you can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Unknown Author

Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most. Unknown Author

What if this weren't a hypothetical question? Unknown Author

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. Thomas H. Huxley

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. Steven Weinberg

The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates

Failure to plan ahead on your part does not create an emergency on my part. Steven Dutch

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. Thomas Pickering

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few. Shunryu Suzuki

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher... and that is a good thing for any man. Socrates

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Erz

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. Thomas H. Huxley

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Timothy Leary

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. Simon Cameron

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both. St Catherine of Siena

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams

A cult is a religion with no political power. Tom Wolfe

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand. Sir Edward Appleton

If you can eliminate all the other choices, the remaining choice, no matter how improbable, is the answer. Sherlock Holmes