Spped Quotes

You can't connect the dots looking forward;

you can only connect them looking backward.

I never ran my train off the track,

and I never lost a passenger.

We are all

born ignorant

but one must work hard

to remain stupid

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

I hate the giving of the hand

unless the whole man accompanies it.

Man is priest,

and scholar,

and statesman,

and producer,

and soldier.

Reading about nature is fine,

but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully,

he can learn more than what is in books,

for they speak with the voice of God.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Biographies,

as generally written,

are not only misleading but false...

In most instances,

they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

We especially need imagination in science.

It is not all mathematics,

nor all logic,

but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Money often costs too much.

The way for a young man to rise

is to improve himself in every way he can,

never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,

and urge doing.

I am content with knowing,

if only I could know.

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life.

In fact,

I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

Things turn out best for the people

who make the best of the way things turn out.

Before I would hurt a child,

I would slit my wrists.

The root of suffering is attachment.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone.

The ultimate solutions lie in the hearts and minds of our people.

The rich invest in time,

the poor invest in money.