Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
We can’t have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
A ‘gossip partner’ is someone you love and trust, with whom you may go through the day’s events with impunity, and with whom you may air your feelings, without them falling asleep.
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that’s not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
If you haven’t used Bitcoin first-hand, you may not get the inherent advantage of a quicker appreciation and understanding of its potential. Seeing assets move swiftly without intermediaries is an eye opening experience, and that is just a starting point.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord’s vengeance, I myself don’t like it.
If you’ve got a bazooka, and people know you’ve got it, you may not have to take it out.
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.
It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change.
Democracy’s a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it’s no longer democracy, is it? It’s something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it.
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God’s goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Our political leaders have great responsibilities, but as with many situations in life, people often rise or fall to meet your expectations. Our responsibility as citizens is to expect our leaders to lead and to give them enough support so that they may do so.
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties.
SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.
I may play poorly at times, but I’ll always try to give my best effort.
Although you may get exhausted sometimes, you can still get over it if you have people around you who give you warm words.
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought – asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.
The height of my goals will not hold me in awe, though I may stumble often before they are reached.
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn’t exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can’t prove that there aren’t any, so shouldn’t we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
