"Silence does not always mark wisdom."

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Inspirational Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Silence Quotes

“I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you donâ€™t know how to approach the problem, youâ€™re not going to get a solution.”
“The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.”
“I want to be remembered as an actor who was able to touch people with what I offered to the world. That a young person, especially a young black woman will look at me and see herself and know that she too can achieve whatever dream her heart creates.”
“I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.”
“I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.”
“Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.”
“Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait evolved. For example, Darwin argued that skull sutures in mammals did not evolve because they facilitate live birth; the sutures were in place well before live birth evolved. Checking the chronological order in which different traits evolved in a lineage is one way to test an adaptive hypothesis; the fact of common ancestry is what makes that checking possible.”
“What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.”

Source : Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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