Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949
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The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
—Wendell Berry, 1983In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.
—Wendell Berry, 1985Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961In every ill turn of fortune, the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
—Boethius, c. 520Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902