Showing posts with label Arnold Toynbee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arnold Toynbee. Show all posts

Monday, November 09, 2009

Quote (#554)

The greatest hindrance to
freedom Is inert people.
- Anonymous

"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important
principle of life that the most likely way to reach a
goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at
some more ambitious goal beyond it."
- Arnold Toynbee

"I have come to the conclusion that politics are
too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
- Charles De Gaulle

The haves and have nots can often be
traced back to the dids and did nots.
- Anonymous

"Speech is conveniently located midway
between thought and action, where it
often substitutes for both."
- John Andrew Holmes

"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not
unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of
thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what
we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on."
- Richard Feynman

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Quote (#512)

"History never looks like history
when you are living through it."
- John W. Gardner

"America is a large, friendly dog in
a very small room. Every time it wags
its tail, it knocks over a chair."
- Arnold Toynbee

"Freedom is just Chaos,
with better lighting."
- Alan Dean Foster

"There are two ways to slide easily through life;
to believe everything or to doubt everything.
Both ways save us from thinking."
- Alfred Korzybski

"Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as
a young man who has just discovered an old
idea and thinks it is his own."
- Sidney J. Harris

"A little more moderation would be
good. Of course, my life hasn't
exactly been one of moderation."
- Donald Trump