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Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan: It is not...

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan: It is not...

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality,...

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Thomas Henry Huxley: The great tragedy...

Thomas Henry Huxley: The great tragedy...

The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

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Mary Ritter Beard: It is grievous...

Mary Ritter Beard: It is grievous...

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be...

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Franz Kafka: One must not...

Franz Kafka: One must not...

One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.

Source: In The...

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Jacques Cousteau: What is a...

Jacques Cousteau: What is a...

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know...

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Peter De Vries: The difficulty with...

Peter De Vries: The difficulty with...

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality and must live with a...

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Aristotle: How many a...

Aristotle: How many a...

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their...

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Wendell Phillips: What gunpowder did...

Wendell Phillips: What gunpowder did...

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Source: In The...

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A lady is...

A lady is...

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe,
She can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby,
She can use her...

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In literature, as...

In literature, as...

In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.

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Emotions get in...

Emotions get in...

Emotions get in the way [but] they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some...

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Our society finds...

Our society finds...

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on...

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There's something endearingly...

There's something endearingly...

There's something endearingly crackpot about this play -- it speaks to us from the century's boom time, when our...

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The true purpose...

The true purpose...

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to...

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You can learn...

You can learn...

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like...

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There's a fine...

There's a fine...

There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.

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It's not so...

It's not so...

It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often, and that passes for good on...

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There comes a...

There comes a...

There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in...

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To ask women...

To ask women...

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

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One man alone...

One man alone...

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat...

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