Creativity is the absence of a frame of mind

What I have learned is but a handful of earth. What is left unlearned is the earth itself. - Tamil

We do not what we ought,
What we ought not, we do,
And lean upon the thought
That Chance will bring us through. - Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. - Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning, Book One

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake, Proverbs of Hell

If you get simple beauty and naught else,
You get about the best thing God invents. -Robert Browning, Fra Lippo Lippi

Make no little plans: they have no magic to stir men's blood . . . make big plans, aim high in hope and work. - Daniel H. Burnham

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy days denies. - George Gordon, Lord Byron, Hebrew Melodies "She Walks in Beauty"

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. - David Hume, Essays "Of Tragedy"

No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men. - David Hume

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. - Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, quoted in Molly Bawn

Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. - Thomas Henry Huxley

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place. - Washington Irving, Tales of a Traveller "To the Reader"

Who longest wait of all surely wins. - Helen Hunt Jackson

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged. - In a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Mrs. H. Harrison Smith (1816)

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"--that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton