"If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance."

-- Marcus Aurelius

#Mistake Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Self Quotes

“Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably preoccupied with architectural meaning. Where else would a department store include in its advertisements the name of the architect who created it, or a newspaper property section throw in a scholarly exposition of theoretical design?”

Source : Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process.”
“She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.”
“I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.”
“They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed.”
“What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.”
“Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics classâ€”or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.”
“Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?”

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