About
"Emotion is the greatest and worst aspect of human nature."
- Kenneth Nicholson
Education
Favorite saying
- "" The only easy day was yesterday." - SEAL Creed
" We and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. "The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is genius or courage without a heart?" - Oliver Goldsmith
"It is only by meditation that we can arrive at any general truths in the science of man." - Condorcet
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
- Voltaire
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives — one is so very small— but that is the satisfaction of writing — one can impersonate so many people.
- Katherine Mansfield
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi
"If I were a prince or a legislator I should not waste my time saying what ought to be done; I should do it or keep silent." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"A serpent always hisses where a sweet bird sings."
- Anonymous
"A mighty pain to love it is,
And 'tis a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain."
- Abraham Cowley
"Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think."
- R.W. Emerson
"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. If he is more than a popular story-teller it may take humanity a generation to absorb and grow accustomed to the new geography with which the scientist or artist presents us. Even then, perhaps only the more imaginative and literate may accept him. Subconsciously he is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the masses, or man's opinion of himself." - Loren Eiseley, in "The Mind as Nature"
"Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me very poor indeed." - Iago, in Shakespeare's Othello
Demetrius: "Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit;
For I am sick when I do look on thee."
Helena: "And I am sick when I look not on you."
- Midsummer Night's Dream
"No muse shall I invoke: no muse would listen to me. A plain tale is all I have to tell: let others, if any, who may feel disposed and able, stick flowers in it." - Jeremy Benthem
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."
- Horace"
