quotes about Wheeling

last updated: November 28, 2023

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
-- Alistair Cooke

#Curiosity Quotes #Wheeling Quotes

“I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.”
“Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.”
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance.”
“I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.”
“While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.”
“I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to his friends. What these tales lack in artfulness they make up for in passion and authenticity. For a writer of fiction, they are solid gold. I have stolen so much from memoirs it's ridiculous.”
“People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.”
“I do not know how much my own work has achieved, and I must not pretend it has done more than it has.”
“Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.”
“The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes to God. . . The Truth lies in the balance between the two extremes.”