“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
-Voltaire
Category Archives: Philosophers & Physicians
Week 904
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
-Dalai Lama
Week 902
“It’s easier for a tutor to command than to teach.”
-John Locke
Week 900
“Your genetics loads the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.”
-Mehmet Oz
Week 893
“The roots of education are bitter but the fruits are sweet.”
-Aristotle
Week 887
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
-Plutarch
Week 880
“In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
-Desiderius Erasmus
Week 874
“Reserve your right to think. For even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.”
-Hypatia
Week 872
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
-Sigmund Freud
Week 871
“Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.”
-Seneca
Week 862
“There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers”
–William James
Week 856
“I therefore had to remove knowledge to make room for belief.”
-Immanuel Kant
Week 851
“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
-Aristotle
Week 846
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
-Rene Descartes
Week 845
“The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs… has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.”
-John Locke
Week 841
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”
-Plato
Week 830
“Be Kind. For everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
-Plato
Week 824
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
Week 822
“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.”
-St Augustine
Week 820
“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.”
-Thomas Hobbes
Week 814
“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.”
-Buddha
Week 806
“What worries you, masters you.”
-John Locke
Week 802
“Human nature flows from 3 main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
-Plato
Week 787
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
-William Blake
Week 784
“When anger arises, think of the consequences.”
-Confucius