I.B. George Quotes

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.

Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.

I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved.

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.

One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.

If you don't dream, you might as well be dead.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

I like a colorful sock. I'm a sock man.

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

We have ...drawn a line in the sand.

Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

The only way to know how a complex system will behave-after you modify it-is to modify it and see how it behaves.

Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

Why do they bother saying "raw sewage"? Do some people actually cook that stuff?

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

Jesus’ words are inseparable from his person. He himself is the message he proclaims.

A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It's you who decides.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

They are poets of gesture.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Geologists claim that although the world is running out of oil, there is still a 200-hundred-year supply of brake fluid.

My life belongs the Lord Krishna now. I'm just the servant of Krishna. I've never been so humble in all my life, and I feel great!

After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.

Medicine is for the patient. Medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits.

Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.

Remember praise is more valuable than blame.

A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.

More and more of our imports are coming from overseas

It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance.

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.

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