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You can't make...

You can't make...

You can't make souffle rise twice.

Source: Referring to Dewey's nomination, in...

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Begin somewhere; you...

Begin somewhere; you...

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Source: In...

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To deny we...

To deny we...

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Source: In...

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In the different...

In the different...

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility,...

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Nobody ever drowned...

Nobody ever drowned...

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Life ought to...

Life ought to...

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the...

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Nothing defines the...

Nothing defines the...

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the...

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Mary McCarthy: Understanding is often...

Mary McCarthy: Understanding is often...

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot...

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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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Friedrich Nietzsche: It is hard...

Friedrich Nietzsche: It is hard...

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The past which...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The past which...

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past...

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Maria Edgeworth: How success changes...

Maria Edgeworth: How success changes...

How success changes the opinion of men!

Source: The Will, 1800.
-- Maria...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: If the enemy...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: If the enemy...

If the enemy leaves the door open, you must rush in.

Source: In Webster's...

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Aldous Huxley: If it were...

Aldous Huxley: If it were...

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving...

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Loren Eiseley: It is frequently...

Loren Eiseley: It is frequently...

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary...

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Thomas Henry Huxley: Try to learn...

Thomas Henry Huxley: Try to learn...

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Source: In...

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Blaise Pascal: Imagination disposes of...

Blaise Pascal: Imagination disposes of...

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this...

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J Robert Oppenheimer: A man whose...

J Robert Oppenheimer: A man whose...

A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Source: Of Albert...

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Michael Faraday: Nothing is too...

Michael Faraday: Nothing is too...

Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

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Jean-Paul Sartre: Three o'clock is...

Jean-Paul Sartre: Three o'clock is...

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Source:...

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