The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.