Quotes

Biblical

“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?” Job 38:4

“Dear friends, I urge you, as strangers and exiles to abstain from sinful desires that wage war against the soul.” 1 Peter 2:11

Other

“Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus lon gue parceque je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte (I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short)” Blaise
Pascal.

“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence”, The Peter Principle by Laurence Peter.

“It has to do with immersion, I believe. Our lives are couched in comfort, cloistered with convenience. Rarely do we have the opportunity to immerse ourselves in an experience that
lets us look inside our souls, to explore our boundaries, to flirt with the unknown. Even more rarely do we seize those opportunities when they are presented… Go. Get out there. Feel
the wind. Taste the rain. Find the magic.” Sam Cook in Up North.

Hiking – “I don’t like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains – not hike! Do you know the origin of that word ‘saunter?’ It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, ‘A la sainte terre, ‘To the Holy Land.’ And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.”
– John Muir quoted by Albert W. Palmer in The Mountain Trail and its Message (1911) pages 27-28 – excerpted in A Parable of Sauntering.

“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”
George Washington Carver

“When people are pressured to meet a target value there are three ways they can proceed: (1) They can work to improve the system, (2) They can distort the system, or (3) they can distort the data.” Donald Wheeler in Understanding Variation.