“When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.” Has BeensTwoLinesBoysPaperLogicBasesDistancePhilosopherInvisibleCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningVisibleFountainPencilsStraight LinesNothing NewOntology Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.” ThinkingGivingGirlBoysSuccessfulPositionOughtBasesPaidDevotionImpressMiscellaneousUnselfishBoy And GirlSuccessful Marriage Book:My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962 Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
“I was stealing all the bases, and when you had to go to arbitration they said, 'You know, only the big boys make the money.' So I got to try and figure out how to hit a home run, too.” KnowsTryingSaidHomeBigsRunningBoysFiguresBasesStealingThey SaidHome RunArbitration Author:Rickey Henderson
“The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man's sin than a school boy's volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence.” MenDoeSchoolSinBoysAtheismSonPureProveBasesInjusticePositive AtheismInnocentGuiltyHeroismVolunteerNegligenceImmaculateDunces Author:Lord Byron