Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
~Ambrose Bierce
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
~Don Herold
Common sense is not so common.
~Voltaire
Wit is educated insolence.
~Aristotle
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
~Andreas Gryphius
"Don’t be so humble - you are not that great."
~Golda Meir (1898-1978), to a visiting diplomat
"The average person thinks he isn’t."
~Father Larry Lorenzoni
"The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don’t."
~Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
"You laugh at me because I am different, but I laugh at you because you are all the same."
~Unknown
He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.
~ Master Kahn
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
~Hermione Gingold
Zac Sunderland is now the youngest person to have sailed around the world. He completed his solo circumnavigation on 16 July, 397 days after setting off on his great adventure. Zac departed from Marina Del Ray, California, mid June last year in his 36-ft sailboat 'Intrepid' purchased with his own money. Only around 250 people have circumnavigated the globe, which makes this 17 year old's epic journey all the more remarkable.
"I think society puts young people in a box - people 15, 16, 17 - and does not expect them to do much but to go to high school and play football and stuff like that. There's so much more potential that people can do with the right motivation and the right ambition in life, so, you know, my thing would just be to get out there and do hard things. Go for it."
Check out Zac's website for more information.
Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid.
~ Albert Einstein
