It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Learning
A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Civilization
The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Philosophy
There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are eak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Drugs
There is no substitute for mother’s milk
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Vegetarianism, One liners
Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Truth
Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Self-Discovery
Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic – they are pus
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Government
Don’t forget that the flavors of wine and cheese depend upon the types of infecting microrganisms
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Eating
Sweat silently. Let’s have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Complaining
The tragedy of education is played in two scenes – incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Education
A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Experts, Professionalism
The judicial mind is too commonly characterized by a regard for a fourth decimal as the equal of a whole number.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Perspective
Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Life
Research is the name given the crystal formed when the night’s worry is added to the day’s sweat.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Night
Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Health
I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.
—Martin H. Fischer
If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Sanity
Don’t confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Explanation
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Thought, Thinking, Thoughts
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Education
Life goes faster on protein
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: One liners, Eating
The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Equality
I am of the Buddhists. The great Teacher comes periodically. He is followed by pupils who corrupt the texts and then a new Buddha must be born to reestablish the truth.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Truth
The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Self-Control
The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary.
—Martin H. Fischer
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Wisdom, Knowledge
Education should be exercise; it has become massage.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Education
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Drugs, Health, Medicine
Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Virtue
Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Education
The pupil can only educate himself. Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God’s vessels.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Learning
The analysis of man discloses three chemical elements – a job, a meal and a woman.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Men
Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.
—Martin H. Fischer
Facts are not science – as the dictionary is not literature.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Science
The world is your school.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Experience
I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Learning
Morphine and state relief are the same. You go dopey, feel better and are worse off.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Government
A nickel’s worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamines.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Eating
If a patient cannot clean his teeth, no dentist can clean them for him.
—Martin H. Fischer