One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.

As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

Len Goodman

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Martin Heidegger

Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you.

Lenore Wolfe

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better build schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man.

Eliza Cook

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

Antonia Fraser

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

Virginia Woolf

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Thomas Huxley

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

Harry Browne

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Don Marquis

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

Henry Longhurst

If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.

Harold Abelson