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The Quest for Perfection

The Quest for Perfection. Quotes FROM A Gift of Days: The Greatest Words to Live By Author: Stephen Alcorn Atheneum, New York 2009. The Quest for Perfection Quote 1. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

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The Quest for Perfection

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  1. The Quest for Perfection Quotes FROM A Gift of Days: The Greatest Words to Live By Author: Stephen Alcorn Atheneum, New York 2009

  2. The Quest for PerfectionQuote 1 “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” --Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) author

  3. The Quest for PerfectionQuote 2 “Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.” --Linus Pauling (1901-1994) chemist

  4. The Quest for PerfectionQuote 3 “Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.” --Karl Marx

  5. The Quest for PerfectionQuote 4 “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” --Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) journalist

  6. The Quest for PerfectionQuote 5 “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” --John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) former U.S. President

  7. The Quest for PerfectionQuote 6 “The past, the present, and the future are really one: They are today.” --Harriet Beecher Stowe

  8. The Quest for PerfectionQuote 7 “I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her authority.” --E.B. White (1899-1985) author

  9. The Quest for Perfection,Quote 8 “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” --Margaret Mead (1901-1978) anthropologist

  10. The Quest for PerfectionQuote 9 “I paint life as I would like to be . . . Common places are never tiresome . . . . It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious or appreciative. We find that it is not a new scene that is needed but a new viewpoint.” --Norman Rockwell, painter

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