Blogging Bert

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

P.D.James

Every student needs someone who says, simply, “You mean something. You count.”

Tony Kushner

It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

Bill Watterson

We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.

Oliver Sacks

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Three this week – I like them so much

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W H Auden

Be confident, not certain.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to understanding ourselves.

Carl Jung

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Blaise Pascal

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

William Styron

[I like all my quotes but I LOVE this one]

In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I can tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

Cormac McCarthy