A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual
from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to
permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
* Lionel Trilling
True wisdom is less presuming than folly.
The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind;
the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not;
he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
* Akhenaton
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels.
We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
* Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea.
It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off,
and does something about it that makes a difference.
* Nolan Bushnell
Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right,
for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
* William Jennings Bryan
There is no medicine like hope,
no incentive so great, no tonic so
powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
* Orison Swett Marden
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
* Albert Einstein
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures
or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
* Samuel Butler
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
* Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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