Food for Thought Quotes

The globe is warming……it is natural or is it manmade? ~ George W. Bush

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery

It is easier to ask forgiveness than to seek permission. ~ Proverb

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings and that these individuals are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder and be murdered in quarrels not their own ~ Aldous Huxley

The Art of Reflection

There is one art of which every man should be a master–the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all ? – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The best rules to guide a young man are to talk little, to hear much, to reflect upon what has passed in company,
to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others’ that deserve it. – Sir William Temple

Reflect a long time, then decide promptly. -Mayer Anselm Bauer von Rothschild