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Friedrich Nietzsche: Extreme positions are...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Extreme positions are...

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

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John Newton: How sweet the...

John Newton: How sweet the...

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
In a believer's ear!
It soothese his sorrows,
heals his wounds,
And...

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Joseph Roux: There is a...

Joseph Roux: There is a...

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: Here we stand...

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: Here we stand...

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific...

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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: Discovery consists of...

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: Discovery consists of...

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something...

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Thomas Arnold: Real knowledge, like...

Thomas Arnold: Real knowledge, like...

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for,...

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Ann Plato: Oh! may each...

Ann Plato: Oh! may each...

Oh! may each youthful bosom, catch the sacred fire . . .

Source: Lines.
-- Ann...

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Warren Bennis: Make sure you...

Warren Bennis: Make sure you...

Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.

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Alfred Whitney Griswold: The only sure...

Alfred Whitney Griswold: The only sure...

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to...

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Frantz Fanon: I came into...

Frantz Fanon: I came into...

I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things . . . and then I found I was an object in the...

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Claude Levi-Strauss: Our system is...

Claude Levi-Strauss: Our system is...

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish...

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Stanislaw Lem: A man who...

Stanislaw Lem: A man who...

A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be...

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Henry David Thoreau: We seem but...

Henry David Thoreau: We seem but...

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the...

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Henry David Thoreau: But lo! men...

Henry David Thoreau: But lo! men...

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.

Source: Walden, Economy,...

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Ruth Benedict: I have always...

Ruth Benedict: I have always...

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

Source: In...

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Loren Eiseley: One [practitioner of...

Loren Eiseley: One [practitioner of...

One [practitioner of science] is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I am my...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I am my...

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

Source: Aug 1941, Myself, 1967.
--...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: When love turns...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: When love turns...

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: The truth is...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: The truth is...

The truth is that I am enslaved . . . in one vast love affair with 70 children.

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: As the blackness...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: As the blackness...

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so...

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