The rage for swiftness which is so characteristic of this restless time has been extended to fashions of reading. One effect of the modern habit of swift and careless reading is seen in the impatience with which anything is regarded which is not to be taken in at a glance.
Arlo Bates
"Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices."
Linda Fisher Thornton
"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."
Mark Twain
"What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?"
Henry David Thoreau
Inspiration
Sadness is a state of sin.
Andre Gide
"Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way."
Kevin Hart
"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
Inspiration
We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.
Malcolm Gladwell
Inspiration
On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: 'I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as the 'Chinese Resaturant Problem'--because we has a dim sun.
Bill Bryson
"Self-education is self-empowerment."
Anonymous
"But I cant' translate it the right way, that's why I always use so many foreign languages around you, because there're some things that simply can't translate, that are beautiful when you read them the original way."
DarknessAndLight
"People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of."
Dennis Prager
"We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul."
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