Favorite Quotes

"No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful." - Boole

 

"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act." - Malraux

 

"Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive." - Montgomery

 

"Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind." - Allston

 

"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity." - Lombroso

 

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself." - Camus

 

"Despair has its own calms." - Stoker

 

"Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys." - Akenside

 

"Peace if possible, truth at all costs." - Luther

 

"The dose makes the poison." - Paracelsus

 

"Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail." - Astell

 

"What we pay for with our lives never costs too much." - Porschia

 

"I will do water - beautiful, blue water." - Monet

 

"Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt." - Moore

 

"People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts." - Hindemith

 

"If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly." - Montgomery

 

"Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true." - Shenstone

 

"What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why." - Tate

 

"Order doesn't come by itself." - Mandelbrot

 

"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist." - Magritte