Denis Diderot quotes and words of wisdom

"The best doctor is the one you run for and can"t find."
Found in the topic Doctor.

"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, And stops the complaints of those who obey."
Found in the topic Justice.

"Distance is a great promoter of admiration!"
Found in the topic Administration.

"Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination."
Found in the topic Experiment.

"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."
Found in the topic Flattery.

"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."
Found in the topic Genius.

"There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it."
Found in the topic Morality.

Interesting Quotes

Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government."Lenny Bruce - (1923 - 1966)

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.Robert F Kennedy