Notable Quotes from Selected Chapters
- “The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side. Oh joy, rapture! I've got a brain! “ Well, you may want to rethink this one. The Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz, based on the book by Frank Baum.
- "A modern education at a price you can afford.” (If you don’t mind paying off loans for a few years.) your humble author.
- “I went back to the past and found it wasn’t the way I remembered it” your humble author.
“The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.” Attribute to American abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher.
- “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” St. Paul from the First Letter to the Corinthians.
- “A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.” Attributed to the English physicist Sir Isaac Newton.
- “This is the truth: as from a fire a flame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again” Attributed to the Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero.
- “The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.” Attributed to French mathematician Blaise Pascal.
- “Truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” Attributed to British statesman Sir Winston Churchill.
- “It just seemed so hard to have faith in God, when he seemed to be making such a mess of things” you humble author.
- “Through the portals of time are man’s dreams swept, as dust upon awakening, in silence kept.”
“Through the portals of time are man’s dreams swept, as dust upon awakening, in silence kept.” I know I didn’t make this up but I can’t find the original.
- “Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.” From the play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare.
- “One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. “ Attributed to the German physicist Albert Einstein.
- "He was destined to learn his own wisdom apart from others or to learn the wisdom of others himself wandering among the snares of the world." From the novel, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” by James Joyce.