There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight. […]
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There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage. Great short quote and quotation by: […]
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. Great short quote and quotation by: Pablo Picasso , Spanish Cubist painter (1881 – 1973)
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There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands. Great short quote and quotation by: Sacha Guitry , (1885 – 1957)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty. Great short quote and quotation by: Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales , French author & moralist (1613 – 1680)
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. Great short quote and quotation by: William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar”, Act 4 scene 3 , Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)
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There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect. Great short quote and quotation by: Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince , Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 – […]
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. Great short quote and quotation by: Ken Olsen, CEO DEC 1977 , US computer engineer & industrialist (1926 – )
Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to […]
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Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty. Great short quote and quotation by: Kahil Gibran, […]
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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness. Great short quote and quotation by: Louise Erdrich ,
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