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J B S Haldane: The wise man...

J B S Haldane: The wise man...

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as...

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J B S Haldane: While I do...

J B S Haldane: While I do...

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that...

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Jean Toomer: One may receive...

Jean Toomer: One may receive...

One may receive the information but miss the teaching.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: Faith is the...

Mary McLeod Bethune: Faith is the...

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is...

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Beatrice Hinkle: The creator does...

Beatrice Hinkle: The creator does...

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other...

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Benjamin Jowett: Never retreat. Never...

Benjamin Jowett: Never retreat. Never...

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

Source: In The...

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Benjamin Jowett: Young men make...

Benjamin Jowett: Young men make...

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

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Christopher Lasch: Every age develops...

Christopher Lasch: Every age develops...

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character...

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Nannie Burroughs: When the Negro...

Nannie Burroughs: When the Negro...

When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even...

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Sarah Louise Delany: Oh, Mama was...

Sarah Louise Delany: Oh, Mama was...

Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

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Allan Bloom: As soon as...

Allan Bloom: As soon as...

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Source:...

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Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: Opera, next to...

Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: Opera, next to...

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen...

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Theodore Dreiser: Our civilization is...

Theodore Dreiser: Our civilization is...

Our civilization is still in the middle stage; scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct;...

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George Orwell: The books one...

George Orwell: The books one...

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of...

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Lewis Carroll: The rule is,...

Lewis Carroll: The rule is,...

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam today.

Source: The...

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Ellen Glasgow: No matter how...

Ellen Glasgow: No matter how...

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless...

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Ellen Glasgow: A tragic irony...

Ellen Glasgow: A tragic irony...

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which...

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Franz Kafka: All human errors...

Franz Kafka: All human errors...

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is...

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Lewis Carroll: That's the reason...

Lewis Carroll: That's the reason...

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

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Lewis Carroll: Now here, you...

Lewis Carroll: Now here, you...

Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else,...

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