"Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting."
Robert Frost
"...You do yourself no favour if you let your sense of doubt-mistrust-scepticism to rise up within you to the point where you must look every gift horse in the mouth..."
Isabella koldras
"Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an accumulation of resentment."
Isaac Asimov
"Till we recognize what’s sick and messed up about ourselves this world is gonna stay sick and messed up."
Lacey Sturm
"The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjectively--is habitually provisional."
Chuck Klosterman
"The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed people to take books home to read them."
Rachel Cohen
"I think the rules where different there. It was all about science, but the science was magical. It didn't care about whether something could be done. It was about whether it should be done, and the answer was always, always yes."
Seanan McGuire
"Men,' she said rueful, 'are the most absurd creatures on this green earth.' 'But there are camels,' Gabriel pointed out. 'Believe me,' she answered. 'I've taken camels into consideration."
Zoe Archer
"Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday."
John McWhorter
"The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are disrupted that we truly pay attention and must ask ourselves what we are looking at."
Siri Hustvedt
"Children need calm—they’re artists."
John J. Geddes
"Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them."
Joan Didion
"To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."
Aristotle
"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'Rose didn't answer the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil."
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