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DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
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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