“Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.” IfsForceAnswersVirtueTaughtSpeechPatienceAngryConquerDesertForbearanceVanquish Book:The Canterbury tales Source: The Canterbury tales
“Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.” MindMeanCertainIndividualAnswersResultsVirtueCapableSeriesObservationPermitCapabilityQuestioningFiniteMeasurement Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public. And if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs. Her only answer to them is to shine on.” IfsMenPersonsDoeAnswersVirtueWiseDogObjectsMoonAbuseShiningEnvyClamorShine On Book:Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately Source: Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately
“He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.” MenShouldMeanChildrenMadeYoungGivenAnswersVirtueWiseWifeMarriedFortuneAffectionMeritYoung ManEnterpriseEldersMischiefBest WorkHostageImpedimentsUnmarried Author:Francis Bacon
“Keith Richards ... was once asked how he came up with all those amazing guitar riffs. His answer? He just starts playing until he makes the right mistake. In other words he's optimistic he will create something good by virtue of getting something "wrong."” AnswersMistakeVirtueGuitarOptimisticKeith Author:Mark Stevenson