A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
“I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate i...”
“Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.”
“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.”
“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
“If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.”
“The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.”
“When the mind wants to hope it refuses to listen.”
“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...”
“It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, wou...”
“At the end of the day the only thing that stays are your words. They linger while you disappear. Hanging in the air like they're on a clothesline, oh how I wish I could let them go.”
“Only wise men look for new wisdom.”
“This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it i...”
“Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.”
“Know this: whenever you think of leaving, a part of you has already left. But its never too late to get it back.”
“Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.”