Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
-- Mark Twain --

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. And the best of me is diligence.
-- William Shakespeare --

The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.
-- Edward Gibbon --

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
-- Francis Bacon --

Ability is of little account without opportunity.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte --

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes --

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
-- Booker T. Washington --

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
-- Willaim Blake --

Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne --

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
-- Henry Wadsworth longfellow --

The man we call a specialist today was formerly called a man with a one-track mind.
-- Endre Balogh --

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
-- Albert Einstein --

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
-- Will Rogers --

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
-- Seneca --

A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson --

The aim is not more goods for people to buy, but more opportunities for people to live.
-- Lewis Mumford --

Every man is worth just as much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
-- Marcus Aurelius --

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
-- Will Rogers --

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
-- Roger Lewin --

Nothing shakes our confidence more than discovering things are not what they seem.
-- John Hutton --

In order to become wise we must first become disillusioned.
-- John Hutton --

Humans are equal until behavior proves otherwise.
-- John Hutton --

Basically science discovers where, what, and how we are ; psychology who we are ; religion why we are. Philosophy strives to integrate all the above into a world view.
-- John Hutton --

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
-- Benjamin Franklin --

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein --

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
-- Albert Einstein --

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
-- Albert Einstein --