"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at."
Anonymous
"[..] when we get down to the subatomic level, the solid world we live in also consists, again rather worryingly, of almost nothing and that wherever we do find something it turns out not to actually something, but only the probability that there may something there."
Douglas Adams
"Curiosity lights a fire."
wisdom illuminates it.
"Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it."
Leonardo da Vinci
"A gentle Quaker hearing a strange noise in his house one night got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend ' he said 'I would do thee no harm for the world but thou standest where I am about to shoot.'."
James Hines
"It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?"
Idris Elba
"The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive."
George Santayana
"To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks."
Thomas Mallon
"Men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them."
Margaret Mitchell
"If you are on the Path, and see the Buddha walking toward you, kill him."
"A teaspoon of honey is worth more to the bee than a barrel of gold."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"But what is unjust? That depends on a person's thoughts, values, and beliefs. People differ sharply on what is just or unjust in this world. Thus, some people become angry much quicker than others."
Abraham J. Twerski
"The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man, because it is the man and not the woman, who has to bear the responsibility for his seed."
Anonymous
"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."
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