"If liberty means anything at all, "George Orwell wrote, "it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
- Sir John Lubbock
"Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth."
- Richard Whately
"One today is worth two tomorrows."
- Benjamin Franklin
"I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive."
- Albert Einstein
"Success is never final, failure is never fatal, it's courage that counts."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."
- Cyril Connolly
"All things are difficult before they are easy."
- Thomas Fuller
"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never."
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately rise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair."
- Blaise Pascal
"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects."
- Albert Einstein
"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."
- Bernard Berenson
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
- Charles Darwin
"It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities ... interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid."
- Carl Jung
"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man."
- Euripides
