Favorite Quotes

"Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives." - Wilkins

 

"The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts." - Phelps

 

"Short cuts make long delays." - Tolkien

 

"Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind." - Pitman

 

"The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things." - Eucken

 

"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life." - Alexander

 

"Wear the old coat and buy the new book." - Phelps

 

"A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity." - Gracian

 

"The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read." - Abercrombie

 

"Learn as much by writing as by reading." - Dalberg-Acton

 

"Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron." - Cornell

 

"What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love." - Westcott

 

"According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature." - Wien

 

"Real painters understand with a brush in their hand." - Morisot

 

"A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool." - Moliere

 

"Be yourself, but always your better self." - Maeser

 

"The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it." - Stanislavski

 

"Power ought to serve as a check to power." - Montesquieu

 

"Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment." - Dogen

 

"At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city." - Willis