some quotes that were stored up during my silences
All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.--Willian Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham
Engage not the mind in the intense pursuit of too many things at once, especially such as have no relation to one another. This will be ready to distract the understanding, and hinder it from attaining perfection in any one subject of study.--Isaac Watts
Education is that process by which thought is opened out of the soul, and, associated with outward...things, is reflected back upon itself, and thus made conscious of its reality and shape...He who is seeking to know himself, should be ever seeking himself in external things, and by so doing will he be best abl to find, and explore his inmost light.--Bronson Alcott, The Journals of Bronson Alcott
A quote that sums up the reason I value certain friends so highly, and which makes me smile:
But why am I dosing you with these antediluvian topics? Because I am glad to have some one to whom they are familiar, and who will not receive them as if dropped from the moon.--Thomas Jefferson, Crusade Against Ignorance: Thomas Jefferson on Education
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.--William Allen White
The gods send thread for the web begun.--Leif Smith
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.--Alexander Pope
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. For it is not by the possession, but the search after truth that he enlarges his power, wherein alone consists his ever-increasing perfection.--Gotthold Lessing
We are like dwarfs that sit on the shoulders of giants.--Bernard of Chatres
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.--Tennyson, from Ulysses
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.--Galileo Galilei
To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.--Susan Blow
The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.--William James
Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.--Anonymous
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.--Anonymous
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.--Charles Du Bos
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.--Samuel Butler
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.--Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to be what you might have been.--George Eliot
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.--Lao-tzu
Engage not the mind in the intense pursuit of too many things at once, especially such as have no relation to one another. This will be ready to distract the understanding, and hinder it from attaining perfection in any one subject of study.--Isaac Watts
Education is that process by which thought is opened out of the soul, and, associated with outward...things, is reflected back upon itself, and thus made conscious of its reality and shape...He who is seeking to know himself, should be ever seeking himself in external things, and by so doing will he be best abl to find, and explore his inmost light.--Bronson Alcott, The Journals of Bronson Alcott
A quote that sums up the reason I value certain friends so highly, and which makes me smile:
But why am I dosing you with these antediluvian topics? Because I am glad to have some one to whom they are familiar, and who will not receive them as if dropped from the moon.--Thomas Jefferson, Crusade Against Ignorance: Thomas Jefferson on Education
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.--William Allen White
The gods send thread for the web begun.--Leif Smith
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.--Alexander Pope
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. For it is not by the possession, but the search after truth that he enlarges his power, wherein alone consists his ever-increasing perfection.--Gotthold Lessing
We are like dwarfs that sit on the shoulders of giants.--Bernard of Chatres
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.--Tennyson, from Ulysses
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.--Galileo Galilei
To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.--Susan Blow
The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.--William James
Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.--Anonymous
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.--Anonymous
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.--Charles Du Bos
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.--Samuel Butler
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.--Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to be what you might have been.--George Eliot
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.--Lao-tzu