T. R. Pearson Quotes

How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?

The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

The only failures are those who fail to try.

Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.

That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.

Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.

Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.

Always trust computer games.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.

There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.

When he breathed, he truly was Australia’s greatest white elder and friend without peer of the original Australians.

We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.

Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.

We should not feel separate from nature, we are a part of it. We need to cover our footprints.

Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway.

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

I'll play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count…Provided I like it!

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.

It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.

Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming”; “Fear is the basis of all mankind. In cards, you psyche 'em out, you shark 'em, you put the fear of God in 'em

It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly.

The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.