Widsom Quotes

A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub.(from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)

Isaac Newton

The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal

Lady Murasaki Shikibu

It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

Oscar Arias

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

Ernest Hemingway