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Aphorisms about a person's confidence

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. 

--Derek Bok, President, Harvard University

Making the decision to have a child is momentous -- it is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. 

--Elizabeth Stone

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. 

--Mark Twain, (1835-1910)

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. 

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. 

--Gaius Plinius (c. 61-112 A.D.)

Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive. 

--Robert Pirsig 

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. 

--R.E. Shay

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts. 

--Herbert V. Prochnow

If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what was yesterday?

--Anonymous

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. 

--Kierkegaard

You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours. 

--Ilka Chase

When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last. 

--Griffin's Thought

In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe all to all men. 

--Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) 

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. 

--D. Elton Trueblood

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. 

--James Dean

Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. 

--Nicholai Velimirovic

Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.

--Anonymous

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. 

--Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

There're 2 possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. 

--Fermi

It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. 

--Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

Journalism is merely history's first draft. 

--Geoffrey C. Ward

What is done well is done quickly enough. 

--Augustus Caesar

Category: Aphorisms | Added by: Ктулху (18.05.2011)
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