Thoughtful Thursday

"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself, can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper, and the loss of self-control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite."
- Abraham Lincoln

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson

"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."
- Thomas Henry Huxley

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."
- George Eliot

"Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect."
- Lionel Trilling

"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
- Carl Sagan