"Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought."
H. Rider Haggard
"This particular strand of feminism is characterized by two tenets: 1. Men are jerks, and 2. Women should strive by all means to become like them."
Douglas Wilson
"For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?"
Richard Courant
"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love."
Louis Kahn
"As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live."
Carew Papritz
"At its most fundamental, language is an act of shared attention, and without the fundamentally human willingness to listen to what another person is saying, language would not work."
Christine Kenneally
"Where there are no tigers a wildcat is very self-important."
Korean proverb
"The magic of a jewel and the mystery of a book never end!"
Laura Beth
"There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen."
Sun Tzu
"Compassion grows in the recognition that we are all the same.If you can’t see some part of yourself in every single person you encounter, then you’re not looking closely enough, at the person or at yourself."
Scott Stabile
"You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment."
Paddy Chayefsky
"...It's appalling to remember that the entire Oxford University Library was sold for scrap in the mid-1500s. Nor was that situation unique to Oxford, as libraries were deconstructed throughout the land."
Owen Gingerich
"When asked 'What do we need to learn this for?' any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness."
David Sedaris
"No matter how much the woman is beautiful, she will lose her womanhood if she is dumb, arrogant or liar."
Eyden I.
"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."
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