Weyl is perhaps the source of the quotation marks that have resulted in the quote being attributed to Galileo. It is, in fact, a translation of the original French, “Galilée … déclare que dans tous ces phénomènes il faut mesurer tout ce qui est mesurable, et tâcher de rendre ...
attributed to Horace. In Jonathan Swift and Temple Scott (ed.), The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: A Tale of a Tub: the Battle of the Books, and Other Early Works (1897, reprint 1907), Vol. 1, 291, the editor footnotes that “this essay is a parody on the pseudo-philosophical ...
- Chief Seattle (attributed) Adventure is not outside man; it is within.- George Eliot Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.- Oscar Wilde Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.- James Allen...
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), (attributed) Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal...
he does to himself.- Chief Seattle (attributed) A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,to keep his friends in countenance.- Benjamin Franklin To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.None is excluded, but excludes himself.You have only to push aside the curtain.- ...
This short poem is attributed to the famous poetess Chiyo. Having been challenged to make a poem of seventeen syllables referring to a square, a triangle, and a circle, she is said to have immediately responded with the above, translating to: "Detaching one corner of the mosquito-net, lo...
- Galileo Galilei Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.- Chinese Proverb The years teach much which the days never know.- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;if in terms of ten years, ...
Your task is not to seek for love,but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourselfthat you have built against it.- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi) Don't seek God in temples.He is close to you.He is within you.Only you should surrender to Himand you...
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln) All things share the same breath -the beast, the tree, the man...the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.- Chief Seattle (attributed)The full measure of a man isnot to be found in the man himself,but in the colors ...
- Mark Twain (attributed) Please sign-up for my Free Inspirational Daily Email on the form below.Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?Or is today a day to sit by the fireand watch the storm rage outside?Either way, ...