Quotes April 30, 2023

I know both what I want and what I might gain, And yet, how profitless to know …
Robert Browning,
poet
 
 
 
 
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.”
Alfred North Whitehead
 
 
 
 
“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”
Thomas Aquinas
 
 
 
 
“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.”
Plato
 
 
 
 
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
William Shakespeare
 
 
 
 
“Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.”
Walter Cronkite
 
 
 
 
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
Marie Curie
 
 
 
 
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Marcus Aurelius