Quote #8

"Questioning is the track on which the centered person moves."

-Stephen Batchelor

Quote #7

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

-St Francis of Assisi

I read an interesting take on this quote today from the 99th Monkey rephrased like this:

Grant that I might not so much seek to be loved (and understood) as to love (and understand.)

Quote #5

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."

- Abe Lincoln

Quote #4

"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain."

- JFK

Appropriate considering my post here and his younger brother's recent death.

Quote #3

"The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way."

-Mark Twain

Quote #2

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

-H.L. Mencken

Quote #1

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
-- T.S. Eliot

A translation of this I would give is: "Amateurs borrow, professionals steal."