"The act of writing is for me often nothing more
than the secret or concious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory
of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory
of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went
away."
-Elie Wiesel
"It takes a genius to whine appealingly."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Knowledge is power."
-Francis Bacon
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same
God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to
forgo their use."
-Galileo Galilei
"The nice thing about egoists is that they don't
talk about other people."
-Lucille S. Harper
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what
is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is
genius."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for
knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world."
-Albert Einstein
"People who know little are usually great talkers,
while men who know much say little."
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"To see things in the seed, that is genius."
-Lao-tzu
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher
explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
-William Arthur Ward
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's
ignorance."
-Confucious
"Knowing and not doing are equal to not knowing at
all."
-Unknown
"Knowledge is love and light and vision."
-Helen Keller
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you
learn."
-C. S. Lewis
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