“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” Continue reading
Flannery O’Connor on Truth
Groucho Marx on Books
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” Continue reading
Samuel Johnson on Knowledge
“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.” Continue reading
Doug Larson on Language
“If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.” Continue reading
Thomas Szasz Cynical Quote
“Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.” Continue reading
Antoine De Saint-Exupery on Children
“Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” Continue reading
Jean Cocteau on Movies
“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.” Continue reading
Mark Twain on Genius
“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.” Continue reading
George Orwell on Writing
“In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.” Continue reading
Thomas E. Lawrence on Dreams
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” Continue reading
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