"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."
Edgar Allan Poe
"And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn’t know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne."
Frank Cottrell Boyce
"Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!"
Mehmet Murat ildan
"No-one can own our Lord Buddha. That would be a foolish claim, but the roads that lead to him, the Way... That is a different matter. They are all filled with toll-gates, like the roads of Japan, and the monks collect the fees."
Erik Christian Haugaard
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
Anonymous
"THE GAP: Closed-Mindedness can create it, Narrow-Mindedness can widen it, Open-Mindedness can close it, Like-Mindedness… Will Bridge It!"
Auliq Ice
"A person with great knowledge is truly wealthy."
Eraldo Banovac
"Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide."
Terry Pratchett
"One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions."
Pamela Meyer
"You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process."
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
"Every time you tell a lie an angel punches a unicorn in the face with a kitten."
Dave Turner
"Today, with the way things are in all circles, in soccer, in society, in politics, where it seems anything goes, a gesture of honesty goes down well."
Iván Fernández Anaya
"There are plenty of theories to listen to and follow but truth yearns to be discovered. When you find it, there is no doubt where to go."
E'yen A. Gardner
"Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed."
Cornelia Otis Skinner
"A living culture is a progressive culture. It not only allows change, but actively encourages it."
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