M.D. Arnold Quotes
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots ad executions. We kill every time we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.
Knowing nature is part of knowing God. Faith directs us to the invisible God, but leads us back from God to the entire visible world.
It had been six weeks since I brought my second child, my daughter, kicking and screaming into the world. Six weeks, that magic number men everywhere look forward to and women dread.
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
...the people arrogant enough to use the words 'I understand' are the ones who can't possibly understand.
That's who unconditional love is for - dogs and their masters, fools and their gods.
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like all-embracing compassion.
Because this is my life, the only one I get. And if it's a choice between a life Albilitoled, or a life full of Life... well, that's not really a choice at all.
You only live once. Maybe twice.
It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.
Is it possible that mathematical pathology, i.e. chaos, is health? And that mathematical health, which is the predictability and differentiability of this kind of a structure, is disease?
Proofs are to mathematics what spelling (or even calligraphy) is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words.
To hope is to wait for things to come to you. To dream is part of the process of setting goals and then striving to achieve them. You first must dream of doing things before you can do them.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful impressive and widely effective mode of saying things.
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources and what it takes to match them to the challenge.
Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal which takes the imagination by storm and sec ond a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
The parents exist to teach the child but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them.
Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun to have lived light in the spring to have loved to have thought to have done?
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.
It is well when judging a friend to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.
As you express joy you draw it out of those you meet creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express the more joy you experience.
We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing that it is growth rather than treatment.
Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them they have ensured that I shall work hard but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.
Nature with equal mind sees all her sons at play sees man control the wind the wind sweep man away.
A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
