Thoughts for the day.
Reverently propounding the essence of thought.
Brainy Thoughts given by the man up a pole:
“Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know.
Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know.
Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things I decided not to know about.”
Author: Douglas Adams
From,Mostly Harmless’
“All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.”
Author: Robert Frost
American poet, winner of Pulitzer prize in 1923, ’30, ’36, & ’42
“Education is . . . hanging around until you’ve caught on.”
Author: Robert Frost
American poet, winner of Pulitzer prize in 1923, ’30, ’36, & ’42
from 30-Jan-63
“If you learn some stuff, you can learn even more more stuff”
BrainyThoughts.com – Jan 2005
I think Nietzsche liked my quote, so he paraphrased it;
“No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Just do it.”
Author: Unknown
Popularised over the past decade by a certain sports clothing manufacturer.
“Without purpose, all material success is meaningless.”
Author: Unknown.
“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.”
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose original profession and calling was as a Unitarian minister, left the ministry to pursue a career in writing and public speaking. Emerson became one of America’s best known and best loved 19th century figures.
“You teach best what you most need to learn.”
Author: Richard Bach (1936-)
American author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
from Illusions
“We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.”
Author: Douglas Noel Adams (1952-2001)
English humorist & science fiction writer
from Mostly Harmless
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
Author: Lao Tzu (c.604-531 B.C.)
Chinese philosopher & mystic, founder of Taoism
“Worry is a misuse of the imagination.”
“Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.”
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”
Authors Unknown.