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Thought-of-the-Day
June 2009 Archive

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06/01/09"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract." - Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.
06/02/09"A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping." - Kenneth Tynan
06/03/09"The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses." - Edith Sodergran
06/04/09"I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end." - Margaret Thatcher
06/05/09"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." - William G. McAdoo
06/06/09"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say." - Charles Caleb Colton
06/07/09"Patience is the companion of wisdom." - St. Augustine
06/08/09"People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster." - Alistair Cooke
06/09/09"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." - Albert Camus
06/10/09"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret." - Henri-Frederic Amiel
06/11/09"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
06/12/09"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." - Thomas Huxley
06/13/09"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James
06/14/09"The mind's direction is more important than its progress." - Joseph Joubert
06/15/09"Man is what he believes." - Anton Chekhov
06/16/09"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man." - Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.
06/17/09"Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds." - Remy de Gourmont
06/18/09"Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
06/19/09"To want to forget something is to think of it." - French Proverb
06/20/09"There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side." - Oscar Levant
06/21/09"It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him." - Mark Twain
06/22/09"Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's sub writer, for self-respect." - Russell Lynes
06/23/09"Clear your mind of cant." - Dr. Samuel Johnson
06/24/09"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." - Barnett Cocks
06/25/09"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not the invasion of ideas." - Victor Hugo
06/26/09"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
06/27/09"We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it." - William Hazlitt
06/28/09"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome." - Samuel Johnson
06/29/09"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." - Andrew Jackson
06/30/09"We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge." - Rutherford Rogers


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