A Dozen Quotes to Mull Over on a Dreary Day

The weather outside is dreary and grey. As for me, I draw my strength from the weather within. Right now it's blue skies and, yes, here comes the sun.

When I lived in Mexico I bought a notebook in which I began recording quotes from my readings. It was nice having them all in one place, like a personally curated Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, which every serious writer was encouraged to acquire before the Internet em
erged.

Wikiquote is a website that arranges quotes by both author and by theme. If you are a writer and unfamiliar with it, I believe you'd find it worth your while to explore. 

The quotes on this page are arranged neither by author nor by theme. Their common denominator is that I found them interesting because they give you something to ponder and mull over. It's a bite-sized list to be savored slowly, not gobbled up in a rush to get on with your day.

Recently I discovered an extremely interesting page of quotes about Mathematics that you might want to explore. Harvested and assembled by mathematician James Nickel it's titled Quotable Quotes in Mathematics. James is a longtime friend, and an author of numerous books pertaining to math from a Biblical Christian worldview perspective. This past week I interviewed him about his 30-page collection of math quotes. You can read the interview here.

Without further ado, here my dozen quotes to mull over. Read them all, pick one and roll it around in your mind till it yields fruit.

"Don't you ever wonder sometimes what might have happened if you tried?”

—Kazuo Ishiguro 

“The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.” 

—Steve Jobs

“In science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.”
--Lord Kelvin

“Don't pay any attention to the critics—don't even ignore them.” 
—Samuel Goldwyn

“More law, less justice.” 
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten."
—Aldo Gucci

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been."
—John Greenleaf Whittier

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

—Albert Einstein

"A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest."

—Paul Simon

"Behaviorism is a flat earth view of the mind."

—Marvin Minsky

"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."

—William Shakespeare

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

—C.S. Lewis

Let the sunshine in!