Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890
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When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCThe mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904The art of invention grows young with the things invented.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
—Arnold Toynbee, 1948Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944Memory is the only
afterlife I can understand.
Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC