"In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which becomes stronger in a man when he reaches an advanced age."
Adalbert Stifter
"Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged."
Claude M. Bristol
"The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change?"
William Badke
"Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful for that. My students also remind me on a daily basis that the stories I collected during my district attorney days are actually interesting to people who haven't had that experience."
Alafair Burke
"It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error."
Saint Augustine
"There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours."
Anonymous
"Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love."
Francis Bacon
"Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke."
Dejan Stojanovic
"He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion."
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind."
Thomas Carlyle
"A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning."
Robin Sloan
"When I was young, I admired old people.Now that I’m old, I admire wise people.When I was a youth, I admired strong people.Now that I’m old, I admire meek people.When I was an adult, I admired wealthy people.Now that I’m old, I admire happy people."
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