D.Blicq dblicq@rrc.mb.ca (update 05/16/2013) DIRECTORY I BIO I NOTICE BOARD
Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. Solomon (~991-931 BC) Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Lao Tzu (6th century BC)
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. Lao Tzu ( 6th century BC) A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. Lao Tzu ( 6th century BC) I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC) A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC) Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha (563-483 BC)
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC) All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato (427 BC - 347 BC) It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm Publilius Syrus (~100 BC) Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb Natural ability without education has more often attained glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! [Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.] Horace (65BC - 8 BC) There is no great genius without some touch of madness. Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Only the educated are free. Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD) A mighty power and stronger. Man from his throne has been hurled, for the hand that rocks the cradle, is the hand that rules the world. William Wallace (1270-1305)
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by r
eflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, and those who do not see. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. Quintilian To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it. Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
Truth is truth; To the end of reckoning. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727) When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend. Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. Jerome k. Jerome (1859-1927)
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. Eddie Rickenbacker (1890 - 1973) All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still b e entirely uneducated. Alec Bourne
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989)A person's a person, no matter how small. Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
22th-21th millennium BC Bird Figurine, mammoth ivory, Siberia
