Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever
remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Richard Steele

Reading is to the mind what
exercise is to the body.
- Sir Richard Steele

Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin

Daniel J. Boorstin

Freedom means the opportunity to be
what we never thought we would be.
- Daniel J. Boorstin

Louis D. Brandeis

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been
declared impossible before they were done.
- Louis D. Brandeis

King Solomon

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.
- King Solomon

Ray Bradbury

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
- Ray Bradbury

Christopher Morley

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
- Christopher Morley

Henry Ford

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite
capacity to not know what can't be done.
- Henry Ford

Albert Einstein

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
- Albert Einstein

Confucius

No matter how busy you may think you are,
you must find time for reading, or surrender
yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
- Confucius

Walt Whitman

I believe a leaf of grass is no less
than the journey-work of the stars.
- Walt Whitman

Harold S. Geneen

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
- Harold S. Geneen

Michael Crichton

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
- Michael Crichton

Ursula Le Guin

The only questions that really matter
are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula Le Guin

Simon Cameron

An honest politician is one who, when
he is bought, will stay bought.
- Simon Cameron

Henry David Thoreau

Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau

Herman Melville

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand
fibers connect us with our fellow men.
- Herman Melville

John Dewey

We can have facts without thinking but
we cannot have thinking without facts.
- John Dewey

Marilyn French

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
- Marilyn French