On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

Lenny Kravitz

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Aristotle

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.

Chad Harbach

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Lionel Trilling

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Oscar Wilde

Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.

Helen Keller

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

Edward Hopper

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

Talcott Parsons

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Elbert Hubbard

Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Edward Young