Words & Letters
“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 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
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”―Arthur C. Clarke
“If you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be…I always thought that there was enough of everything to go around – that there are enough ideas in the universe and enough nourishment.” ― Milton Glaser
“If you want to look good in front of thousands then you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.” ― Damian Lillard
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” ― James Baldwin
“I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.”
― Truman Capote