Cattell Quotes

#1. I would not lose so great an honor
As one man more methinks would share with me
For the best hope I have.

William Shakespeare

#2. Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.

Raymond Cattell

#3. Mundies die awfully easily, don't they?"
"Isabelle, you know it's bad luck to talk about death in a sickroom.

Cassandra Clare

#4. The original Upper Paleolithic people would, if they appeared among us today, be called Caucasoid, in the sense that they lacked the particular traits we associate with Negroid and Mongoloid types.

Raymond Cattell

#5. But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands'.

Raymond Cattell

#6. I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war - which is international sports and I suppose motorcycle races - to encourage the secretion of the adrenal glands!

James McKeen Cattell

#7. [I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.

Raymond Cattell

#8. Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country.

Ted Sarandos

#9. The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken ... Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.

Nicolaus Copernicus

#10. it's amazing what you can get used to.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#11. Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.

Matthew Hayden

#12. The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.

Friedrich Engels

#13. I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

Howard Zinn

#15. Kit, you say your mother hasn't changed, but she has. A hundred times she's changed. It's important to know with adults, thought there is continual development, there is not always improvement. There is change, but not necessarily growth.

Dave Eggers

#16. Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

Matthea Harvey

#17. Attempts to extinguish me don't even bother me none. Like retarded kids throwing ice cubes at the sun, a victory against Immortal Technique will never be done.

Immortal Technique

#18. The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

Noel Redding

#19. I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

Joan Baez

#20. Wealth will always find their way out of societies where truth and honesty are not established into the societies where there are principles of honesty and truth.

Sunday Adelaja