"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it."
Walter Colton
"If you want to know how old a woman is . . . Ask her sister-in-law."
Edgar Howe
"Do you know which is the greatest epic till date?"
K. Hari Kumar
"I believe the writer... Should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author."
Maxwell Perkins
"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."
Olivier
"Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there's no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies."
R.M. Ford
"Once you read something, you can't erase it from your brain."
Lisa McMann
"Wisdom is in uniconsciousness."
Anonymous
"Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading."
Henry David Thoreau
"It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all."
Heinrich Heine
"Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning."
Christine de Pizan
"When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice."
Cecilia Bartoli
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
Henry Adams
"And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn’t know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne."
Frank Cottrell Boyce
"If you have to shout to prove your point, you're probably wrong."
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