“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”
Mark Twain
“Amplifying on the things improperly attributed to him, Yogi said: "I never really said all those things I said”
Yogi Berra
“Nearly all the philosophical and mathematical doctrines attributed to Pythagoras are derived from India”
Ludwig von Schroder
“The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.”
Lewis Thomas
“Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'”
Albert Schweitzer
“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”
James Truslow Adams
“A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic”
James Russell Lowell