I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.
Ben Johnson.
“The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part.”
“Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.”
“A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.”
“They that know no evil will suspect none.”
“To struggle when hope is banished. To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure and go calmly on!”
“O for an engine to keep back all clocks!”
“Mother Nature is relentless and forward. When we do not live according to her laws she rewards us with disease.”
“In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.”
“They are very good odds. And I know that my scientific brain believes them, if not my panic-ridden, maternal one. Those odds should have made a difference to my reaction. I should have been able to...”
“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”
“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”
“You can be used by someone for their aims when you are not aware of your true being”
“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myse...”