Quotes of the Month – March, 2009

“The character of a man is known from his conversations.”

Menander (342 BC – 291 BC), Greek dramatist

“When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.”

Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-08-04

“Much learning does not teach understanding.”

Heraclitus (ca 535 BC – 475 BC), a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, in On the Universe

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”

Stephen Hawking (1942 – ), British theoretical physicist

“Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.”

Robert W. Sarnoff (1919 – 1997), Chairman of the RCA Corporation

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