Umass Blackboard Quotes & Sayings

Is something good because the gods approve of it? Or do the gods approve of it because it is good? — Socrates

Maybe sometimes things come to you that you never, in a thousand years, would have included. But they strike a chord, so grab it. Trust your ability to know what's true to it and what would carry you off into outer space. — Joan Tewkesbury

Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move. — Ron Livingston

I'm not sure you understand what you're getting in to. I'm a single mom."
"I'm a single guy."
"I have Kate and - "
"And I want Kate, Ashleigh. I do. I want you both. — J.A. Huss

Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose. — Albert Einstein

Religion in this country is worse than communism. Say the wrong thing, think the wrong thing and, look
there's the Stasi knocking at your door. — A. Manette Ansay

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small! — James Blish

I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer. — Richard Dawkins

GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework. — Jack Dangermond