"As to giving credit to whom credit is due, rest assured the best way to do good to one's-self is to do justice to others. There is plenty for everybody in science, and more than can be consumed in our time. One may get a fair name by suppressing references, but the Jewish maxim is true, 'He who seeks a name loses fame.'"

-- Edward Forbes

#Science Quotes #Self Quotes #Names Quotes

“In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.”

Source : Ralph Washington Sockman (1933). “The Unemployed Carpenter”
“We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.”
“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.”
“I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.”
“... pay attention to everything within the field of view.”
“If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, - would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.”

Source : Marco Polo, William Marsden (1926). “The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian”, Doubleday
“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didnâ€™t.”

Source : Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.37, A&C Black
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal”

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