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A Bartlett Giamatti: Teaching is an...

A Bartlett Giamatti: Teaching is an...

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless...

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A Bartlett Giamatti: It is not...

A Bartlett Giamatti: It is not...

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the...

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Marcel Proust: The real voyage...

Marcel Proust: The real voyage...

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new...

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Michel Foucault: As the archeology...

Michel Foucault: As the archeology...

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its...

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Charles A Beard: The bee fertilizes...

Charles A Beard: The bee fertilizes...

The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.

Source: Four Lessons of History, in Readers'...

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Douglas MacArthur: Old soldiers never...

Douglas MacArthur: Old soldiers never...

Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.

Source: Perhaps from a folk song in...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: The general who...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: The general who...

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: Supreme excellence consists...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: Supreme excellence consists...

Supreme excellence consists in breaking an enemy's resistance without fighting.

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Horatio Nelson: I have always...

Horatio Nelson: I have always...

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.

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Napoleon Bonaparte: It is only...

Napoleon Bonaparte: It is only...

It is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Source: Remark to De Pradt...

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Lin Yutang: It is not...

Lin Yutang: It is not...

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, it?s more the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate...

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Thomas Paine: It is error...

Thomas Paine: It is error...

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Source: In Isaac...

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Malcolm Bradbury: The English are...

Malcolm Bradbury: The English are...

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

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Catharine Esther Beecher: The delicate and...

Catharine Esther Beecher: The delicate and...

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: We all live...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: We all live...

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

Source: Speech, 5 May 1978.
-- Kingman...

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Martha Carey Thomas: The man's world...

Martha Carey Thomas: The man's world...

The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

Source:...

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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: The art of...

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: The art of...

The art of healing comes from nature not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an...

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Whitney M Young, Jr: Liberalism seems to...

Whitney M Young, Jr: Liberalism seems to...

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

Source:...

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Dick Gregory: I wouldn't mind...

Dick Gregory: I wouldn't mind...

I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country.

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Margaret Fuller: The especial genius...

Margaret Fuller: The especial genius...

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, and spiritual in...

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