The art of invention grows young with the things invented.
—Francis Bacon, 1605
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Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCAs man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbTraveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
—Fanny Burney, 1782The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.
—Woody Allen, 1975Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905