"Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend."

-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#Life Quotes #Clever Quotes #Simple Quotes

“Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.”

Source : Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.98, Cosimo, Inc.
“The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.”

Source : John Woolman (1847). “A journal of the life, gospel labours, and Christian experiences of ... John Woolman ...: To which are added his last epistle, and other writings ...”, p.84
“Everything is beautiful in its own way.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ray Stevens from Mar 10, 2014
“It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.”
“[People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. ... Nothing is simpler than to complete pictures in a superficial sense. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.”

Source : Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Riva Castleman, Wolfgang Wittrock, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1985). “Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: images of the 1890's”
“Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.”
“I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.”
“My theory on education is... get one.”

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