Words & Letters
“Words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.” ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.”–Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“The Americans have no sense of doom, none whatever. They do not recognize doom when they see it.” ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
“We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.” ― John Hughes, The Breakfast Club
“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”―Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous
“The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.” ― Voltaire
“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.” ― Trevor Noah, ‘Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood’
“The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.” ― Philip K. Dick
“The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed–would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper–the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.” – George Orwell, 1984
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” ― Socrates