Age Quotes - Page 118

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.

People are entitled to joy in work.

What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.

One must be chary of words because they turn into cages.

I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.

Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

In a time of crisis we all have the potential to morph up to a new level and do things we never thought possible.

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

Marriage has failed because you could not rise to the standard that you were expecting of marriage, of the concept of marriage. You were brutal, you were, you were full of jealousies, you were full of lust; you had never known really what love is. In the name of love, you tried everything which is just the opposite of love: possessiveness, domination, power.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Being healthy is something I learned from a very young age. Looking after yourself on the inside helps with your energy, makes your skin glow, and changes your whole outlook on life.