"But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the former, and in great measure from the latter. ... in short, I should wish to gain my bread from my writings."

-- Galileo Galilei

#Writing Quotes #Wish Quotes #Research Quotes

“Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts”
“Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.”

Source : Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.76, Institute of GS
“Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.”
“Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other.”
“Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.”

Source : "The Sociology of Rock". Book by Simon Frith, 1978.
“I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice.”
“It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.”
“There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'”

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