Thomas Jefferson

• "He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."
• "The merchant has no country."
• "Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth"
• "Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free."
• "There is no truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world."
• "Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread."
• "No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him."

Samuel Johnson

• "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
• "Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."

Thomas Jones

• Friends may come and go; but enemies accumulate.

Charles Kettering

Arthur Koestler

• "...the evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality."
• "...one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident."

• "The dogmas of the quiet past will not work in the turbulant future. As our cause is new, so we must think and act anew."
• "How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

John Locke

• "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.?"

Henry W. Longfellow

Niccolo Machiavelli

• "It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things."
• "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."
• "How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery."

Edwin Markham

• There is a destiny that makes us brothers, no one goes his way alone; all that we send into the hearts of others, comes back into our own

W. Somerset Maugham

Ernst Mayr

Douglas McArthur

Charles C. McGowen

• Concise, Context, Cohesive, Contiguous & Cogent are essential for 'Knowledge Flow' and = People to People Effectiveness
• McGowen's Law: Knowledge will never flow through any population faster than Kelvin's Wake
• Chance, following the path of least resistance, favors the prepared
• There are times when failure simply is not an option
• Because someone stands by a podium and speaks does not mean the audience learns

Herman Melville

H.L. Mencken

Richard Nixon"

• "Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate." or "plurality should not be posited without necessity."

Flannery OConnor (1925-1964)

• "Theres many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Charles Schnee

Thomas Paine

• "It is, I think, exceedingly easy to define what ought to be understood by national honor; for that which is the best character for an individual is the best character for a nation; and whenever the latter exceeds of falls beneath the former, there is a departure from the line of true greatness."
• ...when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
• "He who dares not offend cannot be honest."

General George S. Patton

• "Never tell people HOW to do things. Tell them WHAT to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
• "Never pay for the same ground twice."
• "A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week."

H. Ross Perot

Vincenzo Pareto

Linus Pauling

Charles Peguy

• "He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers."

Henri Poincare

Bob Proctor

• "Change Is Inevitable. Personal Growth Is a Choice."

Ayn Rand

• "The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort."
• "When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you: you may know that your society is doomed."

Theodor Reik

• Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

• Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there....
• Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice Doggie' while you look for a rock.
• We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Frank Roney

Franklin D. Roosevelt

• "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."
• "A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards."
• "A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues."
• "Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."
• "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
• "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
• "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
• "Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past."
• "Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."
• "Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."
• "I am a part of everything that I have read."
• "There is nothing to fear but fear itself."

Bertrand Russell

Danny Saradon

• Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction

Arthur Schopenhauer

Seneca

George Bernard Shaw

• The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
• Some people see things as they are and say why -- I dream things that never were and say why not

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Socrates

Henry David Thoreau

• "When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?"

Tennyson's Ulysses

We are not now that strength which in old days.

Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are:

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

HS Thompson

Leo Tolstoy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• "Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action."
• "After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow."
• "The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth."

Rita Mae West

Oscar Wilde

• "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
• "A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."

Frank Lloyd Wright

W. B. Yeats

Frank Zappa

• "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
• "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."

Zig Ziglar

• The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now.
• A goal properly set.... is half way reached...

Unknown

• A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
• "A vision without a plan is a dream." "Vision without execution is meaningless."
• Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
• "Data, data everywhere and not a chance to think."
• "Do not allow yourselves to be offended by the imperfect while you strive for the perfect."
• Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up.  It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed... Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It makes no difference if you're a Lion or a Gazelle... When the sun comes up you'd better be running.
• "Difference between vision and hallucination is due date."
• Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
• Everything is always okay in the end, if it's not, then it's not the end.
• Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open
• "History shows that new technologies tend to be adopted widely in society only when people can use them with the skills and tools already at their disposal."
• "Honi soit qui mal y pense." (Evil to those who think evil.)
• "If I have seen so far .. It is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants...."
• If all my friends jumped off a cliff, I would not jump with them. I would be at the bottom to catch them.
• Life is what you make out of it... kinda like play-doh.
• "Minds are like parachutes - they work best when open."
• Passion: There are many things in life that will catch you're eye, but only a few that will capture you're heart... Pursue those.
• Pain and Suffering is inevitable but misery is optional.
• "Success comes from good decisions. Good decisions come from experience. Experience often comes from bad decisions."
• Success is a journey, not a destination.
• "suspend disbelief"; "institutional learning"
• The bubbling brook would loose its song if you remove the rocks
• The future belongs to those who see the possiblities before they become obvious.
• "The Future belongs to those who see the possibilities before they become obvious"
• "Three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, Those who watch things happen, and Those who wonder what happened!"
• "To hold to one assumption and exclude any and all conflicting data - that isn't science, thats politics"
• "You can't get to second with your foot still on first."
• "Yesterday is a cancelled check...forget it, tomorrow is a promissory note, don't count on it, today is ready cash, USE IT!"
• "Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a GIFT, that is why it is called the PRESENT"
• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling of a person who thinks that nothing is worth war is much uglier. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety and well being; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions and blood of better men than himself.

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