Category Archives: quotation

Quotation: Albert Einstein

“Play is the highest form of research.”

Quotation: Muhammad (570 – 632)

“The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr.”

(Inspiration for Midterm study this weekend.)

Philosopher dish

“Knowledge: the taste is bitter at first, but in the end sweeter than honey. Good health [to the owner].”

Samanid epigraphic bowl. Samarqand. 11th century.

Quotation: Ibn Miskawayh (932 – 1030)

To commemorate the evening on which our PC refuses to boot.

“When a king, for instance, owns in his treasury an object of rare quality or a precious stone, he thereby exposes himself to being afflicted by its loss.”

Quotation: Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)

“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.”

quoted in Boswell’s Life of Johnson

Quotation: H. G. Wells (1866 – 1946)

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

from The Outline of History, vol.2, chapter 41, 1921

Quotation: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

Quotation: William Blake (1757 – 1827)

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.

Quotation: Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996)

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Quotation: Ambrose Bierce (1842 – c. 1913)

When you doubt, abstain.

Quotation: William Allen White (1868 -1944)

“If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.”

Quotation: William Stafford (1914 – 1993)

“The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It’s not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.”