I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCThe atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851