Uem Blackboard Quotes & Sayings

The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done. — C.S. Lewis

The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists in the application of a ready-made technique, or in imitating the form rather than the substance of scientific procedure, as if one needed only to follow some cooking recipes to solve all social problems. It sometimes almost seems as if the techniques of science were more easily learnt than the thinking that shows us what the problems are and how to approach them. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Father, forgive them; they don't know what they're doing! — Anonymous

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge. — Lord Acton

Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

Much harm may result from bad company and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse rather than what is better. — Teresa Of Avila

Conformity - the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. — Mark Twain

If you want to be a bridge of hope to the world, you've got to allow yourself to be walked on — Tommy Barnett