We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Walter Scott

Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul with all his strength and with all his will.

Max Muller

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off the belief it inspires is what counts.

Philip Roth

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

Monica Edwards

What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is We.

Claude Bernard

I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

Frances Bean Cobain

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

Katherine Anne Porter

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg

Abraham Lincoln

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

William Shakespeare

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

E. M. Forster

The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't.

R. Foster Winans