Heights Quotes

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

You've got to be a bit of a pirate in this world.

My friends,

as I have discovered myself,

there are no disasters,

only opportunities.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,

and urge doing.

I am content with knowing,

if only I could know.

I too sing America.

Adapt what is useful,

reject what is useless,

and add what is specifically your own.

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The trouble with having an open mind, of course,

is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours

is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

The most powerful person in the world is

the storyteller.

One good thing about music,

when it hits you,

you feel no pain.

Principles are fine until you have to act on them.

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment

in application to the duties of life.

Under certain circumstances,

urgent circumstances,

desperate circumstances,

profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

If I like a thing,

it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

What sir,

would the people of the earth be without woman?

They would be scarce, sir,

almighty scarce.

We will always have STEM with us.

Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away,

but there will always be science,

engineering,

and technology.

And there will always,

always be mathematics.

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Try to learn to let what is simply be.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated,

I have spoken as I have thought.

I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but,

holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be

right than at all times to be wrong,

so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous,

I shall be ready to renounce them.