Science, Reading and Knowledge

"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."

~ Jules Verne

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

~ John Locke

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know."

~ Mark Twain

Fun Ones

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

~ Doug Larson

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

~ Mark Twain

Wisdom and foolishness

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

~ Winston Churchill

"We are always ready~even eager~to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it."

~ Daniel J. Boorstin

Education and Growth

"Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much part of the process as the experiments that work."

~ C. Carter-Scott

 

"The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge."

~ John Ruskin

 

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."

~ Henry Ward Beecher