"An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience."

-- Wilfred Trotter

#Numbers Quotes #Perception Quotes #Substance Quotes

“I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.”
“I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.”
“As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.”
“Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.”
“Because I have known despair, I value hope. Because I have tasted frustration, I value fulfillment. Because I have been lonely, I value love.”
“I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me piece of mind.”
“Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.”
“If you know why you fall in love, you aren't in love”

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