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Annie Dillard: The secret of...

Annie Dillard: The secret of...

The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit, till you yourself are a sail, whetted,...

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Annie Dillard: The body of...

Annie Dillard: The body of...

The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer...

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Jessamyn West: Talent is helpful...

Jessamyn West: Talent is helpful...

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Source: In Words...

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Jerome K Jerome: Among all nations...

Jerome K Jerome: Among all nations...

Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in Silence and listen to it, for it...

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Jerome K Jerome: It is a...

Jerome K Jerome: It is a...

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the...

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Alvin Toffler: Our technological powers...

Alvin Toffler: Our technological powers...

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also...

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Honore de Balzac: If those who...

Honore de Balzac: If those who...

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring,...

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Charles Buxton: In life, as...

Charles Buxton: In life, as...

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Most virtue is...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Most virtue is...

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Source: Quoted in: My Country 'tis...

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Richard Hughes: Middle age snuffs...

Richard Hughes: Middle age snuffs...

Middle age snuffs our more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.

Source: The...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: When you have...

Arthur Conan Doyle: When you have...

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: I consider that...

Arthur Conan Doyle: I consider that...

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: From a drop...

Arthur Conan Doyle: From a drop...

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard...

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Maria Montessori: The only language...

Maria Montessori: The only language...

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them...

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Maria Montessori: If we can,...

Maria Montessori: If we can,...

If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in...

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Maria Montessori: Establishing lasting peace...

Maria Montessori: Establishing lasting peace...

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of...

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Howard Thurman: Commitment means that...

Howard Thurman: Commitment means that...

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I see the...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I see the...

I see the mind of a 5-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: God, the illogic!...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: God, the illogic!...

God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house. The sheer operation alone of getting something...

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Thomas Carlyle: Endurance is patience...

Thomas Carlyle: Endurance is patience...

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Source: In Instant Quotation Dictionary, by...

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