John Wilkins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.
-- John Wilkins

#Positive Thinking #Mind #Pleasant
It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.
-- John Wilkins

#Men #Giving #Vex
'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.
-- John Wilkins

#Science #Compass #Certain
It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away.
-- John Wilkins

#Daughter #Feelings #Church
Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.
-- John Wilkins

#Needs #Adequate #Generalisation
Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit and give such a motion unto it as shall convey him through the air. And this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum and commodities for traffic.
-- John Wilkins

#Men #Air #Giving
It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship swims as well as a small cork, and an eagle flies in the air as well as a little gnat. 'Tis likely enough that there may be means invented of journeying to the Moon; and how happy they shall be that are first successful in this attempt.
-- John Wilkins

#Mean #Successful #Moon
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.
-- John Wilkins

#Writing #Darkness #Style
Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.
-- John Wilkins

#Duty #Interest

Transform your world by transforming your internal state. Start by learning to let go of negative self judgment, and replace it with positive and loving thoughts about yourself. Be kind to yourself, and watch your external world change.
The sanest thing in this world is love.
Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.
You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive.
I knew I really didnâ€™t look that good, and that Edward Weston had glorified me, but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldnâ€™t wait to go back for more.
Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them.
There is no time like the pleasant.

John Wilkins famous quotes

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