Quotes

I am looking for a lot of men who
have an infinite capacity to not
know what can't be done.
- Henry Ford

"Tact is the knack of making a
point without making an enemy."
- Isaac Newton

Education...has produced a vast
population able to read but unable
to distinguish what is worth reading.
- GM Trevelyan

Education's purpose is to replace
an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes

Everyone is a genius at least once a
year. The real geniuses simply have
their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I can't understand why people are frightened
of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
- John Cage

Quotes

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is
when you fall into an open sewer and die."
- Mel Brooks

"Always be nice to those younger than you, because
they are the ones who will be writing about you."
- Cyril Connolly

"If I have seen further it is by
standing on the shoulders of giants."
- Isaac Newton

"Many would be cowards if
they had courage enough."
- Thomas Fuller

"There is no such thing as an underestimate
of average intelligence."
- Henry Adams

"It is a good rule in life never to apologize.
The right sort of people do not want apologies,
and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them."
- P.G. Wodehouse