Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Natural Selection is not Evolution. Yet, ever since the two words have been in common use, the theory of Natural Selection has… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong. — William Whewell Copy Share Image
All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed . . . finding our food, feeding… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed… — Mark Williams Copy Share Image
O my soul, I am now addressing myself to the greatest work that ever a creature was employed about - I am… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
In 1968, the situation at Harvard was not one of which we can be proud. In that year, the proportion of minority… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
It isn't that a warrior learns shamanism as time goes by; rather, what he learns as time goes by is to save… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
As early as 1776, [John Adams] expressed his doubts about America's capacity for virtue. "I have seen all along my Life, Such… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. Because that person doesn't need the goddamn government for… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a recommendation to sell shares of a company ...… — Philip Arthur Fisher Copy Share Image
The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I end with a word on the new symbols which I have employed. Most writers on logic strongly object to all symbols.… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
I heartily wish you, in the plain home-spun style, a great number of happy new years, well employed in forming both your… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image