David Landes Quotes

#1. You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#2. Most people operate within a margin of plus or minus several minutes.

David S. Landes

#3. As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground.

David S. Landes

#4. History is the same thing over and over again.

Woody Allen

#5. I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf ... Let's leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes.

Paulo Coelho

#6. Indications, of course, are not enough. Knowledge of the time must be combined with obedience -- what social scientists like to call time discipline. The indications are in effect commands, for responsiveness to these cues is imprinted on us and we ignore them at our peril.

David S. Landes

#7. Burn a Bush cause for peace he no push no button.
Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction,
How can we follow a leader when this a corrupt one?

Common

#8. It's hard enough to figure out how to live ... without worrying about what the hell's normal.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#9. These were officials accorded high respect. Yet they conspired, and still I destroyed them. If your abilities surpass theirs, then make your play. Otherwise, change your hearts and serve me, to save the Empire from further ridicule.

Jonathan Clements

#10. the clock is not merely a means of keeping track of the hours, but of synchronising the actions of men

David S. Landes

#11. I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Threesomes call us to confront jealousy, insecurity, fear of rejection, and a host of of other dark seeds inside ourselves. Three-ways can be huge growth experiences that encourage us to drop our insecurities and discover how wholly lovable we really are.

Victoria Vantoch

#13. No one has ever doubted you would die for those you love ... the question then becomes would you live?

Elizabeth Isaacs

#14. It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice

David Landes

#15. Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

David Landes

#16. A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

Michael Bassey

#17. You sound like a college freshman taking his first philosophy class way too seriously, but that's good.

Michael Grant

#18. If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.

David Landes

#19. Uproar against a new idea, and laws to prevent anybody's accepting it, nearly always can be regarded as a signal that the new idea is just about to be taken for granted ... they didn't start making laws to prohibit the teaching of evolution until everybody was about to take it for granted.

Gwen Bristow

#20. If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas

David Landes

#21. Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

Immanuel Kant

#22. ... if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.

David S. Landes

#23. In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.

David Landes

#24. A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!

Sid Caesar

#25. The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

Michael Patrick King

#26. Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

David Landes