"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?"

-- Walt Whitman

#Lessons Quotes #Passages Quotes

“The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.”
“Reality is a clichÃ© from which we escape by metaphor.”
“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”

Source : Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.13, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”

Source : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”
“With Die Hard it was just something that I, you know, I grew up with those movies. I made a Die Hard movie with my friends in my backyard during high school. It was terrible.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“What ignited the rocket that sent you up into the vast regions of comedy, and why? I would say, for me, that philosophical treatise about having black beginnings and wanting love to compensate for that, wanting audiences and wanting attention - I say, "Au contraire." Completely opposite. I want the continuation of my mother's incredible love and attention to me.”
“To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.”
“He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought.”

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