Today Quotes
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If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.Gurdjieff
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?Woody Allen
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.Ovid
Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.Leonard Bernstein
Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.Leonard Bernstein
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.Confucius
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.Confucius
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.John Locke
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.John Locke
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley