The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827
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A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
—David Foster Wallace, 2000Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
—Anna Jameson, 1846Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
—Robert A. Heinlein, 1984It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BC“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.
—Rebecca West, 1939All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856