Front Cover Artwork: The Bookworm

(German: Der Bücherwurm)

1850 oil-on canvas painting

by Carl Spitzweg

(February 5, 1808 - September 23, 1885)

Cover Art modifications of color and texture

performed with the careful expertise of

Michael Bourgeous

Quotes of Note:

Brilliant Thoughts

Arranged by Subject

Edited and Composed by

Brogan L. Fullmer

Quotes of Note: Brilliant Thoughts Arranged by Subject

Copyright © 2005-2010 by Brogan L. Fullmer

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With

grateful acknowledgement to

Fran Zedney

and

the wonderfully talented staff of the Stewart Library

of

Weber State University

This work is dedicated to those who seek the daily progress and betterment of human civilization. May humanity remember that which it values and protect that which it loves.

-Brogan Lee Fullmer

“The nicest thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.”

-Kenneth Williams, 1926-1988

Table of Contents

Ability

See also Art, Talent

“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”

-Aristotle, 384-322 B.C.

“I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.”

-Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun, Freiherr von Braun, 1912-1977

“When you are unwilling to sacrifice or conceal any of your abilities their reputation is generally diminished.”

-Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1715-1747

“A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.”

-Alfred Alistair Cooke, 1908-2004

“There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one’s skill.”

-François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680

“To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacitates.”

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1834

“There is no need to show your ability before everyone.”

-Baltasar Gracián, 1601-1658

“No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond.”

-Zora Neale Hurston, 1891-1960

“A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.”

-Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784

“A single pomegranate seed suffices to reconstruct a ruined world.”

-Arabian proverb

“If you can’t bite, don’t show your teeth.”

-Yiddish proverb

“Ability is what you’re capable of doing, motivation determines what you do, attitude determines how well you do it.”

-Anonymous

Achievement

See also Failure, Success

“All rising to great place is by a winding stair.”

-Sir Francis Bacon, 1561-1626

“Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.”

-Ascribed to Alexandre Dumas, Père [Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie], 1802-1870

“It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.”

-Robert Herrick, 1591-1674

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”

-Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970

“It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”

-Ascribed to Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, 1919-2008

“Those that have done nothing in life are not qualified to judge of those that have done little.”

-Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784

“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them.”

-Ascribed to Benjamin Jowett, 1817-1893

“The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.”

-Lajos Kassák, 1887-1967

“Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.”