Theory
- A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
--Cadman
- It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- [Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
-- Sir Arthur Eddington
- I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.
--Thomas A. Edison
- A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.
--Ed Howe
- A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
--Ed Howe
- In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
--Thomas Huxley
- Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
--Thomas Huxley
- Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
--Samuel Johnson
- Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
--Samuel Johnson
- There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
--Walt Whitman
Thinking
- Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
--Idi Amin
- The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
--Francis Bacon
- Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkrs. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.
--Edward de Bono
- One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.
--Paul Bourget
- We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
--John Dewey
- It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
--Anatole France
- A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor.
--Victor Hugo
- Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
--Dorris Lessing
- An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an irishman, afterward.
--Austin O'Mally
- A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
--Thomas Paine
- ...to point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon...
--D.T. Suzuki
- You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
--James Thurber
Thought
- You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
--James Allen
- One thought fills immensity.
--William Blake
- The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
--Christian Nestell Bovee
- Never express yourself more clearly than you think.
--Niels Bohr
- Learning without thought is labor lost.
--Confucius
- The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.
--Robert Frost
- Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
--William Hazlitt
- A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought.
There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.
--Victor Hugo
- The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
--John Locke
- Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
--Thomas L. Masson
- I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.
--Wilson Mizner
- When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
--Thomas Paine
- We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
--Jams Harvey Robinson
- When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
--Salman Rushdie
- A library is thought in cold storage.
--Herbert Samuel
- Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.
--Diamond Sutra
- To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
--Henry David Thoreau
- Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
--Henry David Thoreau
- Thought is borne of failure.
--Lancelot Law Whyte
Time
- Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.
--George Ade
- Time cuts down all,
Both great and small.
--Anonymous
- Lost time is never found again.
--John H. Aughey
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to site thn it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
--Marcus Aurelius
- Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
--Hector Berlioz
- Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
--Josh Billings
- The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. "Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?" he asked. "Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end; then stop."
--Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
- The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings.
--Dan Cook
- This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
--Benjamin Franklin
- Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
--Robert Frost
- One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Time and I against any two.
--Baltasar Gracian
- Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.
--Thomas Huxley
- Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
--Horace Mann
- Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
--Thomas Mann
- Time is the wisest of all counselors.
--Plutarch
- Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
--John Randolph
- As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
--Henry David Thoreau
- The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
--Rabindranath Tagore
- Punctuality is the thief of time.
--Oscar Wilde
- The inifinite is in the finite of every instant.
--Zen Saying
Tolerance
- I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.
--George Eliot
- Tolerance comes with age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
--Charles F. Kettering
- Tolerance is another word for indifference.
--W. Somerset Maugham
- Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion.
--Will Rogers
- It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
--Herbert Samuel
- Tolerance is the oil which takes the friction out of life.
--Wilbert E. Scheer
- No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.
--Wendell L. Willkie
Tradition
- Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
--Joseph Addison
- What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.
--Thomas Carlyle
- Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living.
--Gilbert K. Chesterton
- It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
--Henry James
- Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
--Lewis Mumford
Tragedy
- The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
--Thomas Carlyle
- What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
--William D. Howells
- There are two tragedies in life: one is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it.
--George Bernard Shaw
- The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
--Horace Walpole
Travel
- The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks aftr unpacking.
--George Ade
- My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
--Diane Arbus
- The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.
--Saint Augustine
- I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
--James Baldwin
- In America there are two classes of travel--first class, and with children.
--Robert Benchley
- The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
--Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
--Benjamin Disraeli
- Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.
--Nikos Kazantzakis
- Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway.
--Roselle Mercier Montgomery
- A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
--George Moore
- There is a ghost
That eats hankerchiefs;
It keeps you company
On all your travels.
--Christian Morganstern
- I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
--George Bernard Shaw
- For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
- The journey is the reward.
--Tao saying
- In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
--Mark Twain
- The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
--Henry David Thoreau
Treason
- Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
--Joseph Addison
- Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
--Douglas Jerrold
- There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places a strain on the reputation of an individual which is indelible and lasting, regardless of the complete innocence later proved.
--John Lord O'Brian
- We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
--Theodore Parker
- Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor."--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
--Wendell Phillips
Trifles
- It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.
--Josh Billings
- Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.
--Chinese Proverb
- Little things affect little minds.
--Benjamin Disraeli
- The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- For the want of a nail the shoe was lost,
For the want of a shoe the horse was lost,
For the want of a horse the rider was lost,
For the want of a rider the battle was lost,
For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost,
And all for the want of a horse-shoe nail.
--Benjamin Franklin
- A small leak will sink a great ship.
--Benjamin Franklin
- Little strokes fell great oaks.
--Benjamin Franklin
- There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
--Samuel Johnson
- Trifles make perfection--and perfection is no trifle.
--Michelangelo
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