The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

Thomas Kempis

Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be?,

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

Richard Wagner

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Wilferd A. Peterson

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

Vincent Van Gogh

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

Lewis Carroll

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

George Bernard Shaw

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

Robert Sternberg

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

Elizabeth Bowen

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Marshall Lumsden