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Gilbert Highet: Many people have...

Gilbert Highet: Many people have...

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought...

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Freda Adler: If one would...

Freda Adler: If one would...

If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of virtue and vice...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: Judgment is more...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: Judgment is more...

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual...

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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: The art of...

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: The art of...

The art of healing comes from nature not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an...

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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: Poison is in...

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: Poison is in...

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a...

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Claude Bernard: It is what...

Claude Bernard: It is what...

It is what we think we know already that prevents us from learning.

Source: In The...

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Hannah Arendt: To be sure,...

Hannah Arendt: To be sure,...

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities. . . than a rigorously enforced divorce...

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A Bartlett Giamatti: Teaching is an...

A Bartlett Giamatti: Teaching is an...

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless...

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Omar Bradley: We've learned how...

Omar Bradley: We've learned how...

We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save...

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Douglas MacArthur: Life is a...

Douglas MacArthur: Life is a...

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: All warfare is...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: All warfare is...

All warfare is based on deception.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Max Eastman: The defining function...

Max Eastman: The defining function...

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Source: In Correct...

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Ralph Ellison: The understanding of...

Ralph Ellison: The understanding of...

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human...

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Agatha Christie: I like living....

Agatha Christie: I like living....

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I...

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Agatha Christie: I've always believed...

Agatha Christie: I've always believed...

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each...

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Lewis Carroll: Alice came to...

Lewis Carroll: Alice came to...

Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?', responded the...

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Lewis Carroll: If you don't...

Lewis Carroll: If you don't...

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Source: In...

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Agatha Christie: I don't think...

Agatha Christie: I don't think...

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also...

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Ernest Hemingway: The man who...

Ernest Hemingway: The man who...

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

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Henry Miller: All growth is...

Henry Miller: All growth is...

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of...

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