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Walter Gropius: If your contribution...

Walter Gropius: If your contribution...

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your...

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Richard Buckminster Fuller: Gold and silver...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: Gold and silver...

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Source: In

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James McNeill Whistler: If the man...

James McNeill Whistler: If the man...

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of...

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J Robert Oppenheimer: When you see...

J Robert Oppenheimer: When you see...

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only...

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Deborah Tannen: When people realize...

Deborah Tannen: When people realize...

When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look...

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Joyce Kilmer: The air is...

Joyce Kilmer: The air is...

The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings
The happy earth looks at the sky
And...

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Marcel Pagnol: A secret is...

Marcel Pagnol: A secret is...

A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.

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Charles Simmons: He who wants...

Charles Simmons: He who wants...

He who wants to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. Life is made up of little things. True...

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William McFee: People don't ever...

William McFee: People don't ever...

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right's no guarantee against...

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Publilius Syrus: It is not...

Publilius Syrus: It is not...

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

Source: Sententiae, no....

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Boris Pasternak: The whole of...

Boris Pasternak: The whole of...

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Source: In...

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Hannah Arendt: There are no...

Hannah Arendt: There are no...

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Source: In The New...

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Hannah Arendt: Under conditions of...

Hannah Arendt: Under conditions of...

Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think.

Source: quoted...

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Van Wyck Brooks: Magnanimous people have...

Van Wyck Brooks: Magnanimous people have...

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find...

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Honore de Balzac: Power is not...

Honore de Balzac: Power is not...

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Source: In...

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Allan Bloom: Fathers and mothers...

Allan Bloom: Fathers and mothers...

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to...

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Addison Gayle, Jr: To understand madness...

Addison Gayle, Jr: To understand madness...

To understand madness is to be a bit mad.

Source: The Way of the New World: The...

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bell hooks: . . ....

bell hooks: . . ....

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

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Carl Sagan: I would be...

Carl Sagan: I would be...

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: One must still...

Friedrich Nietzsche: One must still...

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

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