Quaint Quote

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
- Dr. Seuss

WAKE UP BRAIN CELLS!!!!

I Didn't Say It . . .

But I still think it's true.

I don't know about you guys/gals, but I *LOVE* Google. So much that I've decided to do an 'Ode to Google'. But don't worry - that's not what this is. That will get tossed on my ever-growing WIP pile.

Instead, I'll share something that Google helps me with. I'm a student of philosophy. So, I'm always on the lookout for quotes. You never know when you can use something someone else said to back you up. And, truth be told, there are many billions of people more eloquent than I that have come before - so why not stand on the shoulders of genius, right? Heh.

That's why I love Google. I have 28 Google Notebooks - various collections of things, but one of them is a list of quotes I encounter that strike me. I've dug up thirteen of them for you this week. =)

1. "Chance favors the prepared mind." ~ Louis Pasteur 2. "A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others." ~ Charles Darwin 3. "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." ~ Martin Fraquhar Tupper 4. "A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other." ~ Charles Dickens 5. "The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." ~ Horace Walpole 6. "There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures." ~ James Thurber 7. "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." ~ Bertrand Russell 8. "The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 9. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ~ Kahlil Gibran 10. "The longest journey of any person is the journey inward." ~ Dag Hammerskjvld 11. "Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." ~ C.S. Lewis 12. "An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man." ~ Thomas More 13. "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." ~ Carl Sagan

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