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Wendell Phillips: What the Puritans...

Wendell Phillips: What the Puritans...

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

Source: The Pilgrims,...

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Wendell Phillips: The keener the...

Wendell Phillips: The keener the...

The keener the wheat the lustier the growth.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Che Guevara: Many will call...

Che Guevara: Many will call...

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to...

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Italo Calvino: A classic is...

Italo Calvino: A classic is...

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Source: Why...

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Martin Amis: Bullets cannot be...

Martin Amis: Bullets cannot be...

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the...

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Jean Paul: Humankind's chief fault...

Jean Paul: Humankind's chief fault...

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

Source: In The...

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Let a man...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Let a man...

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough tensity and he will set fire to the whole...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: On the mountains...

Friedrich Nietzsche: On the mountains...

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be...

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Arthur Schopenhauer: As the biggest...

Arthur Schopenhauer: As the biggest...

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a...

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Richard Buckminster Fuller: When I am...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: When I am...

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty . . . but when I have finished, if the solution is not...

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Lewis Thomas: The cloning of...

Lewis Thomas: The cloning of...

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control,...

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Isaac Asimov: If my doctor...

Isaac Asimov: If my doctor...

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little...

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Vincent Van Gogh: It is not...

Vincent Van Gogh: It is not...

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the...

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Stanislaw Lec: In a war...

Stanislaw Lec: In a war...

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Source:
-- Stanislaw Lec, (Mar...

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Joseph Brodsky: The poetic notion...

Joseph Brodsky: The poetic notion...

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

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Terence Rattigan: When you're between...

Terence Rattigan: When you're between...

When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very...

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Joseph Brodsky: Man is what...

Joseph Brodsky: Man is what...

Man is what he reads.

Source: Quoted by Thomas D'Evelyn Christian Science Monitor,...

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Earl Nightingale: Compared to what...

Earl Nightingale: Compared to what...

Compared to what we need to know or should know and some day will know, we are like children playing blind man's...

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Hesiod: We know how...

Hesiod: We know how...

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true...

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Richard Lovelace: Stone walls do...

Richard Lovelace: Stone walls do...

Stone walls do not a prison make
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an...

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