Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly
Francis Bacon
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
07AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit
Aristotle
06AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it.
Rene Descartes
05AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
Rene Descartes
04AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
03AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things
Rene Descartes
02AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another
Rene Descartes
01AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
Cogito, ergo sum. (I think therefore I am.)
Rene Descartes
31JUL2020 – Quote of the Day
Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.
Desiderius Erasmus
30JUL2020 – Quote of the Day
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry