"All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more."

-- Daniel Defoe

#World Quotes #May Quotes #Use Quotes

“The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.”

Source : John G. Kemeny (1964). “Random Essays on Mathematics, Education, and Computers”
“There was a show in which these scientists shared the secrets of the world's oldest living people, people still functioning past 100 years-old. They found that they exercised everyday, they ate in proportion, that they had a social network of family and friends, and that they had some sort of faith. So, that's what I'm doing now, very consciously. Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.”
“Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others.Â When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.”
“When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.”
“Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.”
“Harvard introduced the now famous ad hoc system whereby a group of experts in the field of the faculty member to be promoted are consulted concerning the stature of that scholar. This move made the opinion within the field, rather than the clubby relationship within the department, the determining factor in the promotion of professors.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.”

Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”
“A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.”

Source : Beverley Nichols (2009). “Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols”, p.123, Timber Press

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