Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2002-03-21 Mar 21, 2002Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.~ Thomas Paine Mar 20, 2002When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.~ Eric HofferEvery generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.~ Henry David ThoreauWe are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.~ Mark Twain Mar 19, 2002If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.~ George WashingtonThe wise do freely, early and in good time, what fools do later out of necessity.~ ProverbIt is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best.~ W. Edwards Deming Mar 18, 2002The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.~ Alvin TofflerAll truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mar 15, 2002Within seven centuries, [the ancient Greeks] invented for itself, epic, elegy, lyric, tragedy, novel, democratic government, political and economic science, history, geography, philosophy, physics and biology; and made revolutionary advances in architecture, sculpture, painting, music, oratory, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, anatomy, engineering, law and war... a stupendous feat for whose most brilliant state Attica was the size of Hertfordshire, with a free population (including children) of perhaps 160,000.~ F. J. Lucas Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print