Quotes

[Galahad]

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

- Sam Rayburn

 

[Galahad]

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

- Thomas Merton

 

[Galahad]

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

- Gore Vidal

 

[Galahad]

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.

- Abraham Lincoln

 

[Galahad]

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

- Albert Schweitzer

 

[Galahad]

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

- Anne Sexton

 

[Galahad]

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

- Art Buchwald

 

[Galahad]

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

- Leonardo da Vinci

 

[Galahad]

'I have done that,' says my memory. 'I cannot have done that' -- says my pride, and remains adamant. At last -- memory yields.

- Nietzsche

 

[Galahad]

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

- Peter Berger

 

[Galahad]

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[Galahad]

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

- Robert Frost

 

[Galahad]

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

- Sam Rayburn

 

[Galahad]

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.

- Barbara Tuchman

 

[Galahad]

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

- Douglas Adams

 

[Galahad]

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

- Edith Wharton

 

[Galahad]

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

- Edward Gibbon

 

[Galahad]

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

- Ethel Barrymore

 

[Galahad]

The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy (science); for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and disgested. Therefore, from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the rational (such as has never been made), much may be hoped.

- Francis Bacon

 

[Galahad]

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

- John Dewey