Today Quotes
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Find peace in where and what you are.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon
Stupid is a boundless concept.Anonymous
Sometimes there are no answers.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."Martin Luther King Jr.
How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols---"Maxims and Arrows"
THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal.Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols-- "Maxims and Arrows"
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.Milan Kundera, Interview on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.Abraham Lincoln