Paul Ehrenfest famous quotes

Last updated: Jul 22, 2024

  • There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  • The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

  • You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

  • It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.

  • Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.

  • A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.

  • Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.

  • Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.

  • Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.

  • Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.