"The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge."

-- Marcel Proust

#Knowledge Quotes #Desire Quotes #Tiny Quotes

“I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.”
“There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'”
“... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.”
“A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.”
“Genius is infinite painstaking.”
“We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.”
“I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don't work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do - writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information - is pure joy. It's what I was called to do.”
“Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.”

Source : "The Necessity of Poetry Tredegar". Book by Robert Bridges, 1917.

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