A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl, 1990You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
—Winston Churchill, 1945Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCStyle is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789Man is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.
—Tertullian, c. 217Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387