Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

John Burroughs

Tidak ada kesalah-pahaman mengenai ilmuwan yang lebih besar daripada kepercayaan yang berkembang bahwa mereka adalah individu-individu yang dingin, keras, dan tak berjiwa.

Paul Davies

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

Douglass North

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Jean Henri Fabre

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.

Frank Dane

Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

Gita Bellin

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Will Rogers

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

Brian Eno

Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

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