Wisdom

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Your powers of observation are formidable,' Michael says and Darien giggles behind one perfectly manicured hand, like some sort of preppie geisha.

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

I would surmise that we must cherish the resources that God has given us to achieve a goal more than we cherish the goal itself. For if we fall victim to the pursuit of the goal alone, then the goal has suddenly become our god.

One gains by losing and loses by gaining.

When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.

If you become too readily available to people, they begin to take you for granted; pull away, and they will clamor for you. It's a subconscious thing our society has created in the minds of the masses. This is why most of the 'greats' didn't become recognized until after their death. If you're overlook, rejoice, maybe your one of the future greats.

Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor that you could to-day.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

For every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.

He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said.

Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

If you sense so badly that you also sense a need to make me sense that, then I sense sadly that you cannot make better sense ... Sadder still if you cannot sense my sincerity.

Thus, an inhibition center developed below what in humans is the temporal lobe, to turn off much of the functioning of the reptilian brain; and an activation center evolved in the pons to turn on the R-complex, but harmlessly, during sleep.

A little modesty stays ridicule.

Knowledge does not come through force. It can not be taken, it can only be freely received.

Being 'Tech Savvy' allows me to tie my own shoe laces, ride a tricycle, draw stick figures, play hop scotch and much, much more.Otherwise I'd be a 'Techno Illiterate'.

I don’t think you’re going to start a riot, but until you prove you have more survival instincts than a seriously stressed out lemming, you’ll stay at the bar.