J.C. Spencer Quotes

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen.

When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.

Science is organized knowledge.

To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.

What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.

I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.

How could a person possibly become what he is not thinking? Nor is any thought, when persistently entertained, too small to have its effect. The 'divinity that shapes our ends' is indeed ourselves.

Your faith will perform miracles, especially when you get your hands and feet involved.

Get them while they're young and bend their minds.

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.

Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.

Man must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be; he must grow, not just vegetate.

Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity.

One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation

Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.

[Humility is:] Greatness in plain clothes

The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.

Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.

To be silent is to be passive.

The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls.

I can only live in my truth.

Hilda and I slept alongside each other fully dressed, head to feet.

Islam understands its earthly mission to extend the law of Allah over the world by force.

Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

If you do not change, you can become extinct !

Reading is seeing by proxy.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

Life moves on and so should we

No business, no movement, no activity on the part of man or a group of men can become any greater than the thinking minds and consciousness of the people who are back of the movement.

Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [...] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming.

You have more fun and enjoy more financial success when you stop trying to get what you want and start helping other people get what they want.

As we give, we find that sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven, and in the end, we learn that it was no sacrifice at all.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.