May Quotes - Page 25

• Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

  Thomas Huxley

  Cutting, Science, Common Sense

  "On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences" (1854)

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• The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

  Peter Abelard

  Success, Faith, Motivation

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• May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.

  Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

  Failure, Eye, Science

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• Voyager upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And whate'er your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.

  Sarah T. Bolton

  Single, Sea, Being True

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• The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen - a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a life.

  William O. Douglas

  Taken, Government, Secret

  "Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. December 12, 1966.

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• Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself-in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what others will do, or what roles they will assign to him, and he depends on them-and if they don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspirational, Strength, Organization

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• Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal.

  Robert Owen

  Health, Ignorance, Adversity

  Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.349

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• Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.

  Robert Southey

  Strength, Over You, Mind

  Robert Southey (1858). “The Life of Wesley, and the rise and progress of methodism”, p.21

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• No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strength, Perseverance, Years

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.649, Delphi Classics

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• Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence. 


  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Sympathy, Wedding Anniversary

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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• Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life - come poverty, come wealth, in death - come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved us.'

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Condolences, Heart

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Love of God”, p.1, Editora Dracaena

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• California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

  Denis Kearney

  Sympathy, Rely Upon, California

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• Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.

  Stafford Cripps

  Sympathy, War, Suggestions

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• A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Truth, Race, Age

  Soren Kierkegaard (1966). “On Authority and Revelation”

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• The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf - a philosopher or servant, - but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wisdom, Kings, Truth

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

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• I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Sacrifice, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.63, A&C Black

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• Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Truth, Lying, Heaven

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• Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Inspirational, Truth, Men

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1841). “The poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, modernized ...”, p.325

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• A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends.

  Caryl Parker Haskins

  Wisdom, Truth, Honesty

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• Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Truth, Long, Essentials

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• Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Wisdom, Biographies

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• Let us be banded together as one man; let us contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints; let us pray with fervour, let us live in holiness, let us preach constantly, and preach with fire, and let us so live, that we may impress our age, and leave our footprints on the sands of time.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wisdom, Men, Fire

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1874). “Flashes of thought; 1000 choice extr. from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”, p.511

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• Dear brethren, this is exactly what we have to do, we have to pawn the present for the future. We must be satisfied to give up anything which Christ may require of us for the sake of that which is to come. Our inheritance is not on this side of Jordan. Our joy is yet to be revealed. I grant you that we have much thrown in, for the Lord is a good paymaster; but on the road to heaven he gives us only our spending money.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Joy

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• In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it - not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

  W. H. Auden

  Success, Work, Thinking

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• There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

  Aaron Hill

  Strength, Hero, Coward

  Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.15

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