"I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously, have lost all before they arrive at my age-& remain like Swift's Stulbruggs-cut and dry for life, making no use of their earlier-gained treasures:-whereas, I seem to be on the threshold of knowledge."

Source : L. Candace Pezzera, Edward Lear, Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art (1982). “How pleasant to know Mr. Lear: watercolors by Edward Lear from Rhode Island collections”

Edward Lear

#Knowledge Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Thank God Quotes

“I am truly my mother's son.”
“I don't think I'd rock a moustache. I don't mind growing a beard. I think it's just a guy thing. We like to nurture a beard, see what we can grow and sort of test our own patience with how long we can let it grow out. However, I'm not really as keen on moustaches as I am on beards.”

Source : "James Magnussen Movember Interview". Interview with Jamie Watt, au.askmen.com. November 4, 2014.
“In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.”
“No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.”
“The lives of all of us have been moulded largely by induction through suggestion.”

Source : William Walker Atkinson (2016). “THE POWER OF MIND - 17 Books Collection: The Key To Mental Power Development And Efficiency, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, The Power of Concentration, The Inner Consciousness…: Suggestion and Auto-Suggestion + Memory: How to Develop, Train, and Use It, Practical Mental Influence + The Subconscious and the Superconscious Planes of Mind + Self-Healing by Thought Force…”, p.861, e-artnow
“Today, practically every country outside the West is undergoing an intellectual, political, and cultural churning, from China to Bolivia, Egypt to Indonesia, but we haven't really had, after the 1960s, a major oppositional culture in Western Europe and America. The Occupy movement was so startling and welcome partly because it was the first such eruption of mass protests in decades.”
“The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.”
“Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.”

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