Echoes of Thought

“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” -Ralph Emerson

“The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.” -Vincent Lombardi

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.” -Thomas Edison

“Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.” -Sun Tzu

“The mind grows by resisting easy answers.” -John Dewey, Experience and Education

“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.” -Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.” -Confucius

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.” -Thomas Jefferson, Memoirs, Correspondence And Private Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Ed. By T.J. Randolph

“Fear of failure is one attitude that will keep you at the same point in your life.” -Byron Pulsifer

“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” -Swedish proverb

“Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference to action and society. Be a philosopher; but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.” -David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” -Jean-Paul Sartre

“I never worry about action, but only inaction.” -Winston Churchill

“There is a view of life which conceives that where the crowd is, there is also truth. There is another view of life which conceives that wherever there is a crowd, there is untruth.” -Soren Kierkegaard

“Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.” -Francis Bacon

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.” -Thomas Edison

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” -Malcolm X

“If our state were really happy, we should not need to take our minds off it in order to make ourselves happy.” -Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.” -René Descartes

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.” -Pema Chodron