Motivational Quotes of the Day
Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - June 14, 2026
- Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
- Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936)
- I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), quoted by Plato, 'The Death of Socrates'
- I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
- James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003
- Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
- Baltasar Gracian
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