“Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.”
| — | Thomas Jefferson |
“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”
| — | Emily Brontë |
“Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.”
| — | Dante Alighieri |
““A physicist visits a colleague and notice a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. “Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?” he asks. “No”, replies the colleague, “but I’ve been told that it works even if you don’t believe in it.”””
| — | Niels Bohr |
“Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.”
| — | Hegel |
“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.”
| — | Aeschylus |
“Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do — can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.”
| — | Barbara Sher |
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
| — | John Locke |
“But the images of men’s wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.”
| — | Francis Bacon |
“Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.”
| — | Lillian Hellman |
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”
| — | Isaac Asimov |
“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”
| — | Buddha |
