Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
From Sydney J. Harris
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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