There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, ‘How dull is the world today!’ Nowadays he says, ‘What a dull newspaper!’
—Daniel J. Boorstin (American Historian)
A nation is great not by its size alone. It is the will, the cohesion, the stamina, the discipline of its people and the quality of their leaders, which ensure it an honourable place in history.
—Lee Kuan Yew (Singaporean Statesman)
You have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. You must start with sowing excellent thoughts.
—John C. Maxwell (American Author, Speaker)
Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.
—Laurence Sterne (Irish Anglican Novelist)
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
—Doug Larson (American Columnist)
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
—Graham Greene (British Novelist)
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind—not the fiend or the sadist.
—Erich Fromm (German Social Philosopher)
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything – except itself.
—May Sarton (American Children’s Books Writer)
They’re only truly great who are truly good.
—George Chapman (English Poet, Playwright)
What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.
—Malcolm Gladwell (Canadian Journalist, Author)
There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.
—Robert Browning (English Poet)
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
—Thomas Chandler Haliburton (Canadian Author, Jurist)
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
—Elizabeth Hardwick (American Critic)