James B. Stockdale quote: "A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear."

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated ...
JAMES B. STOCKDALE

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
JAMES STOCKDALE

And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the boo...
JAMES STOCKDALE

But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man wh...
JAMES STOCKDALE

Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had ...
JAMES STOCKDALE

I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your bloo...
JAMES STOCKDALE

We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn'...
JAMES STOCKDALE

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having a...
JAMES STOCKDALE

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - t...
JAMES STOCKDALE

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of littl...
JAMES STOCKDALE

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.
JAMES STOCKDALE

So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal ra...
JAMES STOCKDALE

He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstance...
JAMES STOCKDALE

I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.
JAMES STOCKDALE

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.
JAMES STOCKDALE

Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was goin...
JAMES STOCKDALE

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.
VICE ADMIRAL JAMES B. STOCKDALE

[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
ADM JAMES STOCKDALE

In order to do something you must be something.
ADM JAMES STOCKDALE

Money isn't everything - but it's a long way ahead of what comes next
EDMUND STOCKDALE

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence o...
JAMES B. CONNANT

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words ...
JAMES B. CONANT

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
JAMES B. CONANT

Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by th...
JAMES B. CONANT

...new discoveries show that American soldiers used the swastika as their symbol early in World War ...
JAMES B. LAWRENCE

The false argument has been used that only a man can represent a male Jesus. But this portrays an in...
JAMES B. TORRANCE

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual diffe...
JAMES B. CONANT

Live and forgive.
JAMES CONSTABLE B.1976

I accept that I am affected by the things that affect me. I am independent and I am free.
JAMES CONSTABLE B.1976

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING

I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING

If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING

If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING

I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING

I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING

'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING

My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING

I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING

The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING

I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING

My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING

Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING

Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING

Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
B. B. KING

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
B. B. KING

In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
B. B. KING

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
B. B. KING

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
B. B. KING

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING

I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
B. B. KING

I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
B. B. KING

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING

I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
B. B. KING

Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
B. B. KING

I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
B. B. KING

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ...
B. B. KING

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
B. B. KING

I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING

I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h...
B. B. KING

I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the...
B. B. KING

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
B. B. KING

A lot of people believe what other people say.
B. B. KING

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're ...
B. B. KING

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. KING

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
B. B. KING

I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING

Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING

I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING

If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING

I know I'm not everybody's cup of tea. I'm just me.
MEL B

When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.
MEL B

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be n...
B. TRAVEN

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight ...
B. WILBERFORCE

There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.
B. QUILLIAM

When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -
Welcome wool sweaters.
B. CYBRILL

I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I...
KATY B

I love clubbing - the abandon of it, the release of dancing, and being with my friends and the peopl...
KATY B

I came up with, 'I am a lost boy from Neverland, usually hanging out with Peter Pan' and rec...
RUTH B

I went down to my keyboard and was playing random chords, and the one line I kept repeating was, ...
RUTH B

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcom...
B. DODGE

I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon...
RUTH B

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be ...
B. TRAVEN

Think positively, the way you think will describe you.
ABHIYANDA B.

Be afraid, when you feel always fearless
ABHIYANDA B.

My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she ...
MEL B

Don't try hard to explain, but try hard to prove it.
ABHIYANDA B.

We lived in an age where fake is a must.
ABHIYANDA B.

yepp it's ok, i know you dont care at all, but i still have to make you smile, cause i love seeing y...
ABHIYANDA B.

I'm just me. I'm just very opinionated. I react to whatever I see. If it's good, it'...
MEL B

When Duncan did arrive a half hour later, I hugged him and didn't let go. He seemed a little embarra...
B. ALSTON

In fact, life of the virtual world are the ones who wearing mask.
ABHIYANDA B.

Don't judge me unfriendly, I'm not arrogant, I'm not shy i just like quietness, cause i can nurture ...
ABHIYANDA B.

You're a user that will never access the password to my heart
NATALIA B.

Am I still a hero if the only person I save is
myself?
Am I still a villain if the only pe...
B. DAMANI

He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar ...
B. SMITH

We're all like rock, scissors and paper. unbeaten also can be defeated easily.
ABHIYANDA B.

at least, make one proof of yourself, someday will be needed for your existence.
ABHIYANDA B.

you can change your mood everyday but not with your feelings
ABHIYANDA B.

If we never make it, then don't ever to fake it... sometimes accepting a failure will make you be an...
ABHIYANDA B.

I love J. K. Rowling. If I could meet any person, I would meet her.
RUTH B

I thought it was a prank. There is no way six different major labels trying to reach out to me. But ...
RUTH B

I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around,...
KATY B

Peter Pan is kind of this metaphor for someone or something that makes you feel at home, that brings...
RUTH B

Her eyes were the color of whiskey and grace. Moments with her always felt like getting drunk on Sun...
B. DEVINE

My brother and I do trivia quizzes all the time.
RUTH B

This morning after yoga, I laid in the grass and watched the white clouds go by as the Earth turned ...
ERIKA B.

What I wanted to make sure of is that I wasn't just tagged as a Viner.
RUTH B

How lonely it is!
To be drowning,
in a place
where everyone can swim.
B. DAMANI

There's a depth in you that has yet been discovered.
Abyssal and buried
it terrifies your ...
B. YOUNGZ

I’d likte to welcome you to the land of free, where healthy, wealthy, happy people contribute to t...
B. BARMANBEK

In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the ...
B. BARMANBEK

She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.
B. BARMANBEK

May you have the courage to choose love over hate.
LETA B.

I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; sh...
KATY B

Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
JAMES ST. JAMES

I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek&#...
JAMES ST. JAMES

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
JAMES ST. JAMES

Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?
JAMES ST. JAMES

I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl...
JAMES ST. JAMES

We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.
JAMES ST. JAMES

As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.
JAMES ST. JAMES

When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers...
JAMES ST. JAMES

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.
JAMES ST. JAMES

There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free...
JAMES ST. JAMES

The Savior was selfless. He viewed himself and his own needs as secondary, and he ministered to othe...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN

Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the min...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN

To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN

In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN

True love lasts forever.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN

However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to ...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad an...
JOHN B. LARSON

The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great an...
T. B. JOSHUA

We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would cho...
HENRY B. EYRING

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible econo...
LESTER B. PEARSON

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. WHITE

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
A. B. YEHOSHUA

Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.
T. B. JOSHUA

After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if...
T. B. JOSHUA

When we say Church of All Nations, it's a vision given to me, that the church will touch all the...
T. B. JOSHUA

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

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