Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

when you are surrounded by sheep then it is easy to become one yourself.

Stephen Richards

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Hypatia

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall never put a bit in their mouths and get astride their backs, but rather that Mammon, if they have anything to

George Eliot

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Larry Eisenberg

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Maya Angelou

All my life people have made fun of me because I was so skinny. They kind of made me feel bad about it sometimes. I worried that maybe people will think I am really anorexic.

Evan Rachel Wood

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Plato

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Ellen DeGeneres

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

Rick Warren

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

Alice Cooper

Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.

Melissa de la Cruz