“It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.” GivingHas BeensIdeasCharacterAbleStrongStruggleCapablePerfectionAccountsFacultyStabilityGiftedAdvancingBeing Strong Author:Confucius
“In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men are capable of holding two offices. Take mankind in general, they are vicious, their passions may be operated upon. We have been taught to reprobate the danger of influence in the British government, without duly reflecting how far it was necessary to support a good government. We have taken up many ideas upon trust, and at last, pleased with our own opinions, establish them as undoubted truths.” MenMayHas BeensTwoIdeasGovernmentLastsPassionOpinionSupportTakenInfluenceSubjectsMankindHuman NatureDangerTaughtOfficeCapableBritishDiscussionFalsehoodViciousReflectingBritish Government Author:Alexander Hamilton
“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.” ShouldFirstsMadeIdeasScienceBornResultsDesignEvolutionFutureCapableLaborRootsMachinesDifficultyCompetitionFortuneExcellenceWorkersAidsMilesFlyingFlightDescriptionAssuredFeesPatentsWorkmanshipFlying Machines Author:Lawrence Hargrave
“It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.” MenFirstsLongIdeasCasesHard WorkOughtCapableLong TimePrejudiceCurrentsNew IdeasBest WorkOlder Man Author:Francis Galton
“In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.” LifeYearsLongIdeasHoursCapableLong LifeOne Hour Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the principle consists in giving to the edges of the pyramid a curve of such a nature that this pyramid shall be capable of resisting the force of the wind without necessitating the junction of the edges by diagonals as is usually done.” GivingIdeasDoneScienceForcePrinciplesWindCapableMethodFundamentalsEdgesPeculiarConstructionCurvesPyramidsResistingJunctionArchways Author:Gustave Eiffel