Archive

Quotes

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

—James Joyce, 1922

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

—Emily Dickinson, 1876

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1911

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

—Herman Melville, 1853

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

—Francis Bacon, 1605

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

—Anthony Trollope, 1859

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.

—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
  •