Captain Kangaroo Famous Quotes & Sayings

To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were. — Neale Donald Walsch

Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer, science is a process of fabricating a web of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiments and observations and fruitful of further experiments and observations. — James Bryant Conant

Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself. — Charlie Munger

Do you know that feeling you have right now? The bewilderment, the fear, the fascination?
I nod.
That's what I feel every day. Because I've never loved someone like I love you. — Tarryn Fisher

My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it. — James Scott Bell

We owe God a "double debt" incurred by our passive receipt of Adam's debt but also by our active disobedience. The extent of our depravity is such that we also owe a "daring debt" because we challenge not only God's Law but His very grace as we blame Him that He has not done enough. — Foppe Vander Zwaag

If you get too engrossed and involved and concerned in regard to things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect the things over which you have control. — John Wooden

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity. — Caroline Kennedy

Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns. — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick