"All the means we've been given to stay alert we use to ornament our sleep. If instead of endlessly inventing new ways to make life more comfortable we'd apply our ingenuity to fabricating instruments to jog man out of his torpor!"
René Daumal
"Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust."
Shelley Long
"Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique."
Henry Louis Gates
"A person with the best strategy never gets angry."
Debasish Mridha
"The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it."
Konrad Lorenz
"Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts."
Clarence Day
"The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge."
Lord Chesterfield
"The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock."
Wilson Mizner
"Alas, my lord, your wisdom is consumed in confidence."
William Shakespeare
"Today's pain is yesterdays latent gain we did not take."
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable."
Swami Vivekananda
"The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education."
Thomas Piketty
"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."
Henry David Thoreau
"[T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing."
Sonia Sotomayor
"A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody book that’s ever been written."
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