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Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"This is commonly misquotes as "You can't have you're cake and read more
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"This is commonly misquotes as "You can't have you're cake and eat it, too. - John Heywood's Proverbs, 1546.
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop read more
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to read more
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul read more
The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.