P.J. Mann Quotes

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

I shall go wherever I am asked to participate for freedom.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.

True glory is a flame lighted at the skies.

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

It's just that it's mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet of bad advice about fake solutions to nonexistent problems.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did.

In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.

My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect

I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity.

I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.

[When asked how tall she is:] I'm five feet, 15 inches.

We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.

Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.

What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions.

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed.

Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.