Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. ~ Samuel JohnsonTweetShareSharePin
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ~ Gilbert Keith ChestertonTweetShareSharePin
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. ~ Jean Baptiste LacordaireTweetShareSharePin
Really listening and suspending ones own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms… This is a process that requires trust and builds trust. ~ Mary Field BelenkyTweetShareSharePin
Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish’d and deck’d in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem. ~ William ShakespeareTweetShareSharePin
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. ~ Aldous HuxleyTweetShareSharePin
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses. ~ John Martin FischerTweetShareSharePin
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. ~ Max BornTweetShareSharePin