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I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.
Emily Carr
/ Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
Vincent van Gogh
/ Letters to Theo
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen
/ Northanger Abbey (1817)
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats
/ Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
/ The Outline of History
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim.
Rudyard Kipling
/ If—
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G. K. Chesterton
/ Various attributed
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf
/ The Voyage Out
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
/ Our Mutual Friend
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newton
/ Various writings
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
/ Letter to Robert Hooke
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world.
John Locke
/ Letter to Anthony Collins
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
/ An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Jonathan Swift
/ Various attributed
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
/ Various attributed
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Alexander Pope
/ An Essay on Criticism
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
/ An Essay on Criticism
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
/ Various writings
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
/ Various attributed
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
Albert Schweitzer
/ Reverence for Life
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