Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

Rowan D. Williams

Dialectic generally means of the nature of the dialogue, which is a conversation between two persons. Nowadays it means logical argumentation. It involves a technique of cross-examination, by which truth is arrived at.

Robert M. Pirsig

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Che Guevara

If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.

Etty Hillesum

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

William Blake

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Lao Tzu

You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.

Shimon Peres

There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation.

Victor Hugo

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Bill Baughan

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

H. L. Mencken

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Donald Norman

America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality.

Daniel J. Boorstin