""Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever.""

-- Judy Sheindlin

#Beauty Quotes #Father Quotes #Forever Quotes

“I waste a lot of my time documenting my "search for great esoterica" online. It gets so complicated trying to identify or give credit to all of one's influences.”
“Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.”
“Do not lose heart, even if you should discover that you lack qualities necessary for the work to which you are called. He who called you will not desert you, but the moment you are in need he will stretch out his saving hand.”
“Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.”
“Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.”
“I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees.”
“First understand infinity then you will understand God and how evolution is intelligent design.”

Source : "An Interview with Dr. E. Lee Spence" by Aaron Harding, Journal of the Sea Research Society, Volume 5, #3, p. 24,
“The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.”

Source : Beverley Nichols (1953). “Merry Hall”

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