#th

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. ↗

— Alfred Nobel

#good #i #i am #ideas #only

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. ↗

— Alfred Nobel

#hope #nakedness #nature #truth #veil

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. ↗

— Alex Noble

#am #been #day #essence #good

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#me #moment #question #right #seemed

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#cheerfulness #discontent #failure #i #indeed

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#diligent #forgetting #learning #must #otherwise

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey. ↗

— Alex Noble

#continues #journey #place #rather #spirit

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#foreign #foreign trade #free #rather #should

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#been #culture #established #expense #forgetting

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#gone #higher #him #his #history