"I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do."
Lucille Ball
"We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later."
Louis Aragon
"Writing is a sacred passion."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"If we learn the most by our mistakes the wise have the most failures. While the timid and unfailing will always be missing true knowledge and perspective."
Gary Rudz
"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
"Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster."
J. Christopher Herold
"The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies."
Madame de Sablé
"How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?"
Paul Sweeney
"A person with great knowledge is truly wealthy."
Eraldo Banovac
"Envy suggests inferiority."
Anonymous
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
Henry Adams
"I always said I'm just an instrument; I'm transparent, like a medium, the language passes through me. Which is a bit like saying I'm a recording device, I start and I go. I had a real connection to ongoing, language production in real time."
Constance Dejong
"We have to destroy the radioactive brain of Madame Curie."
A. Lee Martinez
"You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her, especially when tempered with the silence and respect which her rank will inevitably excite."
Anonymous
"Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day."
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