| Author |
Quotes |
| W a Lewis | Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgement despite collective disapproval. |
| W edwards Deming | Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival. |
| Walter Lippmann | Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre. |
| Walter Lippmann | Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. |
| Warren Weaver | We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. |
| William Dement | Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. |
| William Drummond | He who will not reason, is a bigot, he who cannot is a fool, and he who dares not is a slave. |
| William Feather | If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like. |
| William S Burroughs | There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. |
| Francis Bacon | Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts, but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed. |
| Francis Bacon | He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task, but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age. |
| Francis Bacon | The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. |
| Francis Bacon | A cripple in the right way may beat a racer in the wrong one. Nay, the fleeter and better the racer is, who hath once missed his way, the farther he leaveth it behind. |
| Francis Bacon | There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. |
| Francis Bacon | The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections, which proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research, sober things, because they narrow hope, the deeper things of nature, from superstition, the light of experience, from arrogance and pride, things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding. |
| Francis Bacon | If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. |
| Francis Bacon | Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back. |
| Francis Bacon | Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual. |
| Francis Bacon | Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, a sense of humor to console him for what he is. |
| Francis Bacon | He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator. |
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