Two Thoughts (25 June - 1 July)

Sunday 25 June

Two thoughts from Abraham Joshua Heschel:

“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”

“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.”

Monday 26 June

Two thoughts from Hans Hofmann:

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

"Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind."

Tuesday 27 June

Two thoughts from Jules Jusserand:

“The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.”

"The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully."

Wednesday 28 June

Two thoughts from Charles Kuralt:

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."

“We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.”

Thursday 29 June

Two thoughts from Pierre Simon Laplace:

"What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense."

“statistical thinking is merely an artifact of human ignorance. we need to use statistics nature does not.”

Friday 30 June

Two thoughts from Vince Lombardi:

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible."

Saturday 1 July

Two thoughts from James Michener:

“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”

“An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.”

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