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Thought-of-the-Day
May 2009 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
05/01/09"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper." - Adelle Davis
05/02/09"As you live, believe in life. Always human beings will live and profess to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long." - W.E.B. Du Bois
05/03/09"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." - Bertrand Russell
05/04/09"Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything." - Walt Whitman from Song of Prudence.
05/05/09"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." - Herman Hesse
05/06/09"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul." - Michel de Montaigne
05/07/09"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
05/08/09"Who are a little wise the best fools be." - John Donne
05/09/09"Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side." - George Savile
05/10/09"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." - Honore de Balzac
05/11/09"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." - Alert von Szent-Gyorgy
05/12/09"No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
05/13/09"Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding." - Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld
05/14/09"A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key." - Paul Valery
05/15/09"If someone tells you he is going to make 'a realistic decision,' you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad." - Mary McCarthy
05/16/09"All of our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last." - Marcel Proust
05/17/09"No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor." - Samuel Coleridge
05/18/09"To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else." - Jean de La Bruyere
05/19/09"The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men." - Blaise Pascal
05/20/09"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau
05/21/09"Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers." - John Stuart Mill
05/22/09"There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face." - Georg Lichtenberg
05/23/09"A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income." - Lord Philip Chesterfield
05/24/09"There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook." - Norman Douglas
05/25/09"Our most important thoughts are those which contradict our emotions." - Paul Valery
05/26/09"Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought." - Gilbert Chesterton
05/27/09"Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively." - Voltaire
05/28/09"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish." - Aeschylus
05/29/09"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Oscar Wilde
05/30/09"We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence." - Luc de Clapiers de Vanvenargues
05/31/09"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." - Alert von Szent-Gyorgyi


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