"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves."
Paul Valéry
"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."
Socrates
"Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history."
Jacob M. Appel
"When one is learning one should not think of play and when one is at play one should not think of learning."
Anonymous
"Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement."
Glen Duncan
"FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy."
Thomas Middleton
"In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction."
Audre Lorde
"Mistakes are often the best teachers."
James A. Froude
"A Lie is something like the truth, but the truth is not like a Lie."
Dan Raper
"If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it."
will.i.am
"Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'."
Norman Lindsay
"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
"The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!"
Marianne Williamson
"Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God."
G.I. Gurdjieff
"You aren't supposed to learn that dedicated, committed effort can bring about significant changes of consciousness and understanding. That's a very dangerous idea, and therefore it's been wiped out of history."
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