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* "Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."
Vladimir Nabokov* "I have a theory of power; that if it's going to be responsible it has to have something to lose."
Ralph Nader* "If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?"
Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav* "Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data."
John Naisbitt* "The primary challenge of leadership in the 1990s is to encourage the new, better-educated worker to be more entrepreneurial, self-managing, and oriented towards lifelong learning."
John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene (Megatrends 2000)* "Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them."
Napoleon Bonaparte* "I have always known that at last I would take this road,
but yesterday I did not know that it would be today."
Narihara* "Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand."
Native American saying* "The thoughts of the earth are my thoughts.
The voice of the earth is my voice.
All that belongs to the earth belongs to me.
All that surrounds the earth surronds me.
it is lovely indeed, it is lovely indeed."
Navajo Song* "Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them."
Jawaharial Nehru* "Any education worthy of the name is bound to be dangerous."
Professor Neil* "Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning."
Cardinal John Henry Newman* "When people understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless."
Cardinal John Henry Newman* "The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant."
A. Edward Newton* "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Sir Isaac Newton* "I don't know what I amy seem to the world, but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
Sir Isaac Newton* "We can easily manage, if we will only take each day, the burden appointed for it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yeaterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow to the weight before we are required to bear it."
John Newton* "O God, give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed; courage to change what should be changed, and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."
Rienhold Niebuhr* "Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility."
Rienhold Niebuhr* "One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life."
Friedrich Nietzsche* "Those who have a why to live can bear with almost any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche* "Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age."
Friedrich Nietzsche* "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process they do not become a monster. And when you look long into the abyss the abyss also looks into you."
Friedrich Nietzsche* "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal."
Earl Nightingale* "Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibition, instabilities and it always balances them."
Anais Nin* "It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services."
A.J. Nock
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* "Simply to be a human being is to be a futurist of sorts. For human freedom is largely a matter of imaging alternative futures and then choosing among them."
James Ogilvy* "Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."
George O'Keeffe* "Man's loneliness is but his fear of life."
Eugene O'Neill* "The only living life is in the past and future . . . the present is an interlude . . . strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness we are living."
Eugene O'Neill* "Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort."
Jose Ortega y Gasset* "In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues."
George Orwell* "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
George Orwell* "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever."
George Orwell* "They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past."
John Osborne* "The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."
Sir William Osler* "Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish."
Ovid* "If you want to be loved, be lovable."
Ovid* "Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?"
Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna
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* "When, in countries that are called civilized, we see age going to the workhouse and youth to the gallows, something must be wrong in the system of government."
Thomas Paine* "I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound--if I can remember any of the damn things."
Dorothy Parker* "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
C. Northcote Parkinson* "The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take."
C. Northcote Parkinson* "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
Dolly Parton* "Fear of the policeman is the beginning of wisdom."
Charles Pasqua* "In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as they see it." (*)
Boris Pasternak* "Man is born to live, not to prepare for life."
Boris Pasternak* "The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the bare, shivering human soul, stripped to the last shred, the naked force of the human psyche for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely itself."
Boris Pasternak* "Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."
Louis Pasteur* "In the field of observation, chance favours the prepared mind."
Louis Pasteur* "Blessed is he who carries within himself a god and an ideal and who obeys it--an ideal of art of science, or gospel virtues. Therin lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions."
Louis Pasteur* "In research the horizon recedes as we advance, and is no nearer at sixty than it was at twenty. As the power of endurance weakens with age, the urgency of the pursuit grows more intense. . . . And research is always incomplete."
Mark Pattison* "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
George S. Patton* "Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble there's no place like home."
J.H. Payne* "The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not yet,' and thus denies us. The future is not the time of love: what person truly wants they want now. Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present." (*)
Otavio Paz* "Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."
Hesketh Pearson* "Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, it no longer matters."
M. Scott Peck* "If we overcome laziness, all the other impediments to spiritual growth will be overcome. If we do not, none of the others will be hurdled."
M. Scott Peck* "There is a force that somehow pushes us to choose the more difficult path whereby we can transcend the mire and muck into which we are son often born. Despite all that resists the process, we do become better human beings."
M. Scott Peck* "Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call for our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom."
M. Scott Peck* "The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents."
M. Scott Peck* "By attempting to avoid the responsibility for our own behaviour, we are giving away our power to some other individual or organization. In this way, millions daily attempt to escape from freedom."
M. Scott Peck* "Learning from their children is the best opportunity most people have to assure themselves of meaningful old age."
M. Scott Peck* "It is not so much what our parents say that determines our world view as it is the unique world they create for us by their behavior."
M. Scott Peck* "All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach."
M. Scott Peck* "When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity."
M. Scott Peck* "The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity."
M. Scott Peck* "Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom."
M. Scott Peck* "The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth."
M. Scott Peck* "To be organized and efficient, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously."
M. Scott Peck* "By their openness, people dedicated to the truth live in the open, and through the exercise of their courage to live in the open, they become free from fear."
M. Scott Peck* "The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action."
M. Scott Peck* "The entirety of one's adult life is a series of personal choices, decisions. If we can accept this totally, then we become free people. To the extent that we do not accept this we will forever feel ourselves victims."
M. Scott Peck* "To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so we must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is not truly ours."
M. Scott Peck* "The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself--including things like using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring."
M. Scott Peck* "Wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems because it is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning."
M. Scott Peck* "Simply seek happiness, and you are not likely to find it. Seek to create and love without regard to your happiness, and you will likely be happy much of the time."
M. Scott Peck* "Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures."
M. Scott Peck* "The degree to which we can develop world community and thereby save our skins is going to depend primarily on the degree to which we human beings can learn to empty ourselves."
M. Scott Peck* "As soon as we think with integrity we will realize that we are all properly stewards and that wer cannot with integrity deny our responsibility for stewardship of every part of the whole."
M. Scott Peck* "There can be no vulnerability without risk; and there can be no community without vulnerability; and there can be no peace--ultimately no life--without community."
M. Scott Peck* "Most of us believe that the freedom and power of adulthood is our due, but we have little taste for adult responsibility and self-discipline."
M. Scott Peck* "Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft."
Pericles* "He who wants a rose must respect the thorn."
Persian proverb* "If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy."
Laurence Peter* "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
Edward John Phelps* "The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded upon a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older."
Edward John Phelps* "What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better."
Wendell Phillips* "Government exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection--they have many friends and few enemies.
Wendell Phillips* "Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting--that they must understand."
Pablo Picasso* "I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate."
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero* "You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow."
Luigi Pirandello* "The measure of a man is what he does with power."
Pittacus* "The spiritual insight improves as the physical eyesight declines."
Plato* "The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."
Plato* "There are three classes of men--lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain."
Plato* "There will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers."
Plato* "Practice yourself what you preach."
Plautus* "The harder you work, the luckier you get."
Gary Player* "The only certainty is that nothing is certain."
Pliny the Elder* "Man is unique in that he knows nothing. He can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, in fact he can do nothing by natural instinct alone except weep."
Pliny the Elder* "It is the function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new forms--the power to connect the seemingly unconnnected."
William Plomer* "It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but exremely troublesome and vexatious."
Plutarch* "Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly."
Plutarch* "Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so."
Edgar Allen Poe* "We live and learn, but not the wiser grow."
John Pomfret* "We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets."
Sir Karl Popper* "Real education must ultimately be limited to one who insists on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
Ezra Pound* "Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible."
Ezra Pound* "Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years."
Anthony Powell* "Growing old is like being increasingly penalised for a crime you haven't committed."
Anthony Powell* "Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent. But when we work for others, our efforts return to bless us."
Sidney Powell* "Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire."
Duchesse De Praslin* "The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, and is not preceded by a period of worry and depression."
John Preston* "Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religious and create great works of art. The world will never realise how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it."
Marcel Proust* "The real voyage of discovery consists not of finding new lands but of seeing the territory with new eyes."
Marcel Proust* "One man gives freely yet gains even more. Another withholds unduly but comes to poverty."
Proverbs 11:24 (Bible)* "Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth."
Proverbs 27:1 (Bible)* "Where there is no vision, the people perish."
Proverbs 28:18 (Bible)* "So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom."
Psalms xc. v. 12. (Bible)
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* "Being young is greatly overestimated. . . . Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go."
Mary Quant* "Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research."
Raymond Queneau* "Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortunes."
Raymond Queneau
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