"Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it."
Leonardo da Vinci
"The Church has carried out some of the most inhuman and above all un-Christian acts of human history, yet, it is still gloriously hailed by the majority of human population as to be synonymous with Jesus Christ."
Abhijit Naskar
"A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine."
Joel Osteen
"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."
Leo Tolstoy
"Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse."
Bill Watterson
"This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth."
Steve Almond
"When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us."
Margery Allingham
"I hate to be wrong. It makes me feel like a failure. Being wrong has the same affect on me as a lack of food or sleep. It lowers my entire mood. But, I need to be proved wrong sometimes, as it restores humility, and doesn't allow my ego to swell to stupidly big sizes."
Paul Kelly
"Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?"
Neil Gaiman
"Within us all are sages, warriors and fools; we more often that not choose the fools."
rassool jibraeel snyman
"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
"That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful."
Ninon de L'Enclos
"A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick."
Ben Okri
"Writers are the ink of society."
Anonymous
"Haven't we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and fewer of those remain who know what is most real to us?"
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