The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it the world is the world as a duchess sees it and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
Gertrude Stein
He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school and not to travel.
Francis Bacon
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities it becomes sick.
William James
The method of political science is the interpretation of life, its instrument is insight a nice understanding of subtle unformulated conditions.
Woodrow Wilson
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil to think is to do. The crossed arms work the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
Victor Hugo
You'll be old and you never lived and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
Gertrude Stein
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Brian Tracy
For me the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
E. O. Wilson
