Edward Kasner Quotes
Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.
Edward Kasner
Quotes to Explore
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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Rabindranath Tagore
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I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.
Rand Paul
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We are all born with God-given, unique traits and skills. But, as with all possibilities they will remain unrealized unless they are developed, nurtured, and put into practice. You may have the 'capacity' to love, but if left undeveloped, you will never gain the 'ability.'
Leo Buscaglia
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I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.
Loretta Lynn
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Something there is moves me to love, and I Do know I love, but know not how, nor why.
Alexander Brome
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Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
Haim Ginott
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A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.
Walt Disney
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By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.
Pierre Jean de Beranger
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The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.
Albert Camus
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Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole - a creature of ecclesiastical law - is an acceptable adversary, and large fortunes ride on its cases... So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life.
William O. Douglas
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One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.
Tony Blair
