Bernard Quotes
Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.
A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.
China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .
Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.
No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.
Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.
Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.
I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation.
It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.
We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
Can we ever really know anyone well? Lets just say we often found ourselves in each others company and neither of us minded.
I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum
Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
