"Knowledge is the key to power and understanding."
"All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature." --Aristotle
"I love not man less, but nature more." - -Byron, Childe Harold
"Speak to the Earth, and she shall teach thee"
"How like a queen comes forth the lonely moon From the slow opening curains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne! - -George Croly, Diana
"The orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon." - - Shelley, The Cloud
I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out."
"Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and her paths are those of peace."
"Nation shall not lift up sword against Nation; neither shall they learn war anymore."
"Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy heart"
"To the world you are but one person. But to one person, you are the world."
"If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I would not jump with them; I would be at the bottom to catch their fall."
"An angry man opens his mouth, and shuts his eyes." ' -Cato
"Art hath an enemy called ignorence."
"The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is." - - Alfred Tonnelle
Therefore, even the lover a myth is in a sense, a Philosopher; for myth is composed of Wonders."- -Aristotle
"We see in part, and thus is the mirror of prophecy darkened."
"A heap of broken images where the sun beats
And the dead tree gives no shelter
The cricket no relief
And the dry stone no sound of water
Only there is shadow under this red rock
(come in under the shadow of this red rock)
And I will show you something different from either your shadow in the morning striding behind you
Or your shadow in the evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handfull of dust." -
- T. S. Eliot, The Wastland
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." ~James Baldwin
"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life." ~Smiley Blanton
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." -Judy Garland
"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." -Victor Hugo
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." -Lao-Tzu
"Nunc scio quit sit amor." ~Virgil
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." -Ingrid Bergman
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world." -George Bernard Shaw
"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders." -Sloan Wilson
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." -Barry Goldwater
"Justice delayed is justice denied." -William Gladstone
"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood." -Kahlil Gibran, "The Visit of Wisdom"
"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art." -Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." -Kahlil Gibran
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love." -Kahlil Gibran, "Children of Gods, Scions of Apes"
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." -Naguib, Mahfouz
"Wisdom begins in wonder." -Socrates
"The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously." -Hubert Humphrey
"Every exit is an entry somewhere." -Tom Stoppard
"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." -Ziggy
"The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." -Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windemere's Fan"
"Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind." -T. S. Eliot, "Four Quartets"
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." -William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar, Act II, Sc. 2, line 32."
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." -William Shakespeare
A Dream
Within A Dream
by Edgar Allan Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow—
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep— while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
If you don't control your mind, someone else will. - John Allston
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself. - Washington Allston
Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it. - Anonymous
He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow - Anonymous
Honesty in a person means nothing until he is tested under circumstances when he is sure he could get away with dishonesty. - Anonymous
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - Anonymous
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. - Anonymous
Our life is what our thoughts make of it. - Marcus Aurelius
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. - Orlando A. Battista
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost. - Paul Bowles
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. - Ashleigh Brilliant
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. - Edmund Burke
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. - James Branch Cabell
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. - Chinese proverb
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed. - Sebastien R. N. Chamfort
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. - Lord Chesterfield
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. - Norman Cousins
It's the friends you can call up at 4 A. M. that matter. - Marlene Dietrich
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. - Thomas A. Edison
If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly. - Elamri
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything. - Herbert Gardner
I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. - Robert Heinlein
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix
Who, then, is free? The wise man who can govern himself. - Horace
Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth. - Ed Howe
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. - Thomas Jones
All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents. - John F. Kennedy
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King Jr.
He who knows others is wise; / He knows himself is enlightened. - Lao-Tzu
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. - Doris Lessing
There are very few people who don’t become more interesting when they stop talking. - Mary Lowry
Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. - Martin Luther
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument. - William G. McAdoo
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A. A. Milne
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. - Jawaharlal Nehru
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - George Patton
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. - Laurence Peter
My opinion is a view I hold until . . . well, until I find something that changes it. - Luigi Pirandello
The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do. - Leontyne Price
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. - Ayn Rand
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality. - Anwar Sadat
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. - Oscar Wilde
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. -Franklin P. Jones
"Once you have loved, you will always love. For what's in your mind may escape but what's in your heart will remain forever."