I often wish that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.

Werner Heisenberg

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Aldous Huxley

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age

Francis Quarles

Being surrounded by love and people that care about your heart is the dream. That's what I would like on my last day.

Rachel Boston

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Henry Ward Beecher

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Andre Gide

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Luther Burbank

In the bleak midwinterFrosty wind made moan,Earth stood hard as iron,Water like a stone;Snow had fallen, snow on snow,Snow on snow,In the bleak midwinter,Long ago.

Christina Rossetti, MidWinter, 1

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

Oliver North

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.

Winston Churchill

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Jean Cocteau