George Sarton Quotes
The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.
Quotes to Explore
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
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I've been racketeered on.
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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
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I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.
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There's a lot of art that's about loss and sadness, but I would love it if hopefulness were more of a cliche. That's the work that always sticks with me and emboldens me in life.
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We continue to advise that investors remain committed to a patient, long-term outlook and that the best way to do well in stocks is to use a disciplined, time-tested strategy that has the benefit of empirically tested results over a variety of market environments.
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I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.
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To women, a flip-flopper is the functional equivalent of the guy who never calls and always changes his mind.
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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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I didn't want to do a movie, but Hollywood was going to do it with or without us.
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It sustained me... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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People should be more like animals . . . they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they do while they do it.
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Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.
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With TV, you're in people's houses every night. And you have so much time to tell stories. I don't know why I didn't do it before.
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The American elite ... is almost beyond redemption. Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush - sophistry washed down with Chardonnay.
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The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.
