Posts Tagged ‘Excellence’
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Ursula K. LeGuin
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
Václav Havel
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
If we can not trust a freeman with his right to keep and bear arms, then how can we trust him with the right to vote. Surely the right of a freeman to vote has a much greater effect on our collective lives than does any individual’s firearm. If one argues that the effect of any one freeman’s vote is minimal, then why allow it in the first place? To be armed is to secure one’s right to representation.
Thomas Mincher
A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.
Toledo Blade
The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.
Tom Naylor
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.
Truman Capote
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Tryon Edwards
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Henry Huxley