Quotes for All
They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man’s improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some … Read more
The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable. Eric Topol
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. Edmund Burke
Has anyone…any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? … There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one’s steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely … Read more
The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art. Franz Kafka
Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development. Franz Bardon
You won’t lag behind, because you’ll have the speed. You’ll pass the whole gang and you’ll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you’ll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don’t. Because, sometimes, you won’t. Dr. Seuss
There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to show how we can remedy that cultural lag by developing a new perspective on the historian’s enterprise, one that will make us Darwinians at last. Donald Worster
You’re in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It’s all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult. Don Johnson
Jet lag is for amateurs. Dick Clark