Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
-Plato
I can not teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-Socrates
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
-Issac Asimov
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-Abraham Lincoln
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
-Orlando A. Battista
There is no defeat in death, Master Bruce. Victory comes in defending what we know is right while we still live.
-Alfred in the movie Batman & Robin 1997
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
-Voltaire
...and when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun.
-William Shakespear - Romeo and Juliet
Mr. Worf, your discommendation is a facade to protect less honorable men. It is a lie. Lies must be challenged.
-Captain Picard, Season 4 Episode 26, Star Trek The Next Generation
Courage, my friend. That is the most important of all virtues. Courage is not a lack of fear, rather, it is the realization that there are things more important than fear.
-Sai Sahan, Elder Scrolls Online Game
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
-John Lubbock
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
-African Proverb
After that it got pretty late, and we both had to go, but it was great seeing Annie again. I... I realized what a terrific person she was, and... and how much fun it was just knowing her; and I... I, I thought of that old joke, y'know, the, this... this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken." And, uh, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" The guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs." Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships; y'know, they're totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd, and... but, uh, I guess we keep goin' through it because, uh, most of us... need the eggs.
-Woody Allen as Alvy Singer in the movie Annie Hall
The farther you look into the past, the farther you can see into the future.
-Winston Churchill
When asked who his audience was, he said, “I write for people who want to read books like I write.”
-Umberto Ecco - The Name of the Rose
Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.
-Unknown
To be alone is essential for man to be uninfluenced, for something uncontaminated to take place. For this aloneness there seems to be no time, there are too many things to do, too many responsibilities and so on. To learn to be quiet, shutting oneself in one's room, to give the mind a rest, becomes a necessity. Love is part of this aloneness. To be simple, clear, and inwardly quiet, is to have that flame.
-Krishnamurti
It does not matter what you believe; it is the actions you take based on those beliefs that matters.
-H. Spencer Lewis
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
-Anaïs Nin
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life..
-James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
-Plutarch
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
-Aldous Huxley
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.
-Charles Bukowski
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.
The man who never reads lives only one.
-George R.R. Martin